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Aliaksandr Melnichenka

I'm an undergraduate physicist with two first-author papers and three active research collaborations. With Alex Lazarian at UW-Madison, I built a new single-frequency diagnostic for magnetized turbulence (first-author paper submitted to The Astrophysical Journal). With Leonid Levitov at MIT, I predicted self-oscillatory electron waves in graphene (co-first-author paper under review at Physical Review Letters). With Mark Vogelsberger's group at the MIT Kavli Institute, I model how self-interacting dark matter behaves near supermassive black holes. All code and data are open. Before college I won gold, silver, and bronze at the Belarus National Physics Olympiad and built BelSO.org and SavchenkoSolutions.com, platforms now used by tens of thousands of physics students in 40+ countries. Recent talks include AAS 247 (oral), APS DPP (oral), and an invited 30-minute presentation at The Magnetized Turbulent Universe conference in Mexico.

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Publications

  1. A. Melnichenka, A. Lazarian, D. Pogosyan. "Recovering 3D Magnetic Turbulence from Single-Frequency Faraday Screens". arXiv:2602.22204 [astro-ph.GA], 2026.

  2. A. Melnichenka*, P. Liong*, A. Bukhtatyi, A. Bilous, L. Levitov. "Spontaneous Running Waves and Self-Oscillatory Transport in Dirac Fluids". arXiv:2512.16571 [cond-mat.mes-hall], 2025. (* Equal contribution)

  3. A. Melnichenka, X. Shen, V. Tran, M. Vogelsberger. "Phase-Space Diffusion Coefficients for Self-Interacting Dark Matter near Supermassive Black Holes". (In preparation, 2026)