Biography
Nikita joined EPFL as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in October 2024. He graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS, Paris) in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a master’s degree in theoretical physics. He then completed a PhD at ENS, in the group of Prof. Lydéric Bocquet, where he did both theoretical and experimental work on many-body effects in nanoscale fluid transport, graduating in 2021. Nikita then spent a year as a Research Fellow in the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics, working with Prof. Antoine Georges on numerical approaches to disordered quantum systems. In 2022, he joined the Department of Molecular Spectroscopy at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, where he was a Group Leader until his appointment at EPFL.
Awards
- Max Planck Research Group grant of the Max Planck Society (2023).
- Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship (2022).
- Nanomaterials for Energy Applications PhD thesis prize (Prix GDR NAME, 2022).
- C’Nano PhD thesis prize for fundamental research (2021).
- Young researcher prize in Micro- and Nanofluidics (Prix GDR MNF, 2021).
- First place at the entrance examinations of Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole Polytechnique, ENS Cachan and ESPCI (Physics and Chemistry, 2014).