Curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

2019 – present

University of Turku: doctoral candidate

Department of Astronomy,

Turku, Finland

2014 – 2019

Saint Petersburg State University: MSc in Astronomy

Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics,

Department of Astronomy,

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Prize for the best master’s thesis of the Department of Astronomy

Master thesis: ”Optical polarization of X-ray binary LS I +61° 303”

Average grade: 4.8/5.0 (diploma with distinction)

2012 – 2014

Mogilev State Regional Lyceum #1

Department of Math and Physics

Mogilev, Belarus

Average grade: 9.8/10.0

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Full list of publications can be found here.  

1. Kravtsov, V., Veledina, A., Berdyugin,  A., Zdziarski, A., Henson, G., Piirola, V., Sakanoi, T., Kagitani, M.,  Berdyugina, S., Poutanen, J., “Peering into the tilted heart of Cyg X-1 with high-precision optical polarimetry”, A&A, 678, 2023

2. Kravtsov, V.,  Berdyugin, A., Kosenkov, I., Veledina, A., Piirola, V., Qadir, Y., Berdyugina, S., Sakanoi, T., Kagitani, M., Poutanen, J., “Optical polarization signatures of black hole X-ray binaries”, MNRAS, 514, 2022 

3. Kravtsov, V., Berdyugin, A., Piirola, V., Kosenkov, I., Tsygankov, S., Chernyakova, M., Malyshev, D., Sakanoi, T., Kagitani, M., Berdyugina, S., Poutanen, J., “Orbital variability of the optical linear polarization of the γ-ray binary LS I +61° 303 and new constraints on the orbital parameters”, A&A, 643, 2020

4. Ahlberg, V.,  Kravtsov, V.,  Poutanen, J., "Orbital variability of polarized X-ray radiation reflected from a companion star in X-ray binaries",   arXiv:2403.18754

5. Rankin, J., Kravtsov, V., Muleri, F., Poutanen, J., Marin F.,  Capitanio F., Matt, G., Costa, E., Di Marco, A., Fabiani, S., La Monaca, F., Marra, L., Soffitta, P., "X-ray Polarimetry as a Tool to Constrain Orbital Parameters in X-Ray Binaries",  ApJ,  962,  1, 34, 2024

6. Rankin, J., La Monaca, F., Di Marco, A., Poutanen, J., Bobrikova, A.,  Kravtsov, V. et al. (IXPE collaboration), "X-Ray Polarized View on the Accretion Geometry in the X-Ray Binary Circinus X-1",  ApJL 961 L8 , 2024

7. Veledina A., Muleri F., Dovciak M. et al. (IXPE collaboration), "Discovery of X-ray Polarization from the Black Hole Transient Swift J1727.8–1613",  ApJL, 958, L16,  2023

8. Liodakis I., Marscher A.P., Agudo I. et al. (IXPE collaboration), "Polarized blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks", Nature, 611, 677–81, 2022

9. Krawczynski H. et al. (IXPE collaboration), "Polarized X-rays Constrain The Disk-Jet Geometry in a Black Hole X-ray Binary", Science,  10.1126/science.add5399, 2022

10. Poutanen, J., Veledina, A., Berdyugin, A., Berdyugina, S., Jermak, H., Jonker, P., Kajava, J., Kosenkov, I., Kravtsov, V., Piirola, V., Shrestha, M., Perez Torres, M.,  Tsygankov, S., "Black hole spin–orbit misalignment in the x-ray binary MAXI J1820+070", Science, 375(6583), 874–876, 2022 

11. Kosenkov, I., Veledina, A., Berdyugin, A., Kravtsov, V., Piirola, V., Berdyugina, S., Sakanoi, T., Kagitani, M., Poutanen, J., "Disc and wind in black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 observed through polarized light during its 2018 outburst", MNRAS, 496(1), 2020

12. Veledina, A., Berdyugin, A., Kosenkov, I., Kajava, J., Tsygankov, S., Piirola, V., Berdyugina, S., Sakanoi, T., Kagitani, M., Kravtsov, V., Poutanen, J., "Evolving optical polarisation of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070", A&A, 623, 2019

INVITED RESEARCH VISITS

Newcastle University

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

November 2023

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

November 2023

Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center

Warsaw, Poland

July 2023

GRANTS

Principal investigator (PI):

"High precision multi-wavelength polarimetry of binary stellar systems",

Vilho, Yrjö and Kalle Väisälä Fund, 

January 2022

"Väitöskirja binääristen tähtijärjestelmien tarkasta moniaallonpituisesta

polarimetriasta", 

Finnish Cultural Foundation,

February 2021

"High precision multi-wavelength polarimetry of binary stellar systems", 

EDUFI Fellowship,

January - September 2020

Co-investigator (CO-I):

"Structure and evolution of active galaxies nuclei",

Russian Science Foundation,

PI: Valeri Larionov

CO-I, 2017 - 2018

"Structure and physics of active galaxies according to the results of multiwavelength observations",

Russian Foundation for Basic Research,

PI: Valeri Larionov

CO-I, 2016 - 2018