Roman Chernikov
Data Acquisition & Detectors, National Synchrotron Light Source II

Brookhaven National Laboratory
National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000
Research Software Engineer with the Data Science and Systems Integration (DSSI) program at NSLS-II. Roman works on hardware-driven fly scanning and beamline ray-tracing software.
Expertise | Education | Appointments | Publications
Expertise
- X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy
- Data Acquisition and Analysis
- X-Ray Optics
- Beamline Ray-Tracing Simulations
- GPGPU computing with OpenCL/CUDA
- Scientific Visualization with OpenGL
Education
Ph.D. in Physics, MEPhI, Moscow (2008). "Correlation between local electronic and crystalline structure peculiarities in the intermediate valence compounds"
Professional Appointments
- 2008 Assistant Professor, MEPhi, Moscow, Russia
- 2010 Beamline Scientist, PETRA III, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- 2017 Beamline Responsible, Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, Canada
Selected Publications
- Klementiev K, Chernikov R (2023) New Features of xrt ?: Bent Crystals, Coherent Modes, Waves with OAM. Synchrotron Radiation News 36:23–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/08940886.2023.2274735
- Schmidt D, Bauer R, Chung S, et al (2021) A new concept for temporal gating of synchrotron X-ray pulses. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation 28:375–382. https://doi.org/10.1107/s1600577521000151
- Welter E, Chernikov R, Herrmann M, Nemausat R (2019) A beamline for bulk sample x-ray absorption spectroscopy at the high brilliance storage ring PETRA III. AIP Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5084603
- Klementiev K, Chernikov R (2016) XAFSmass: a program for calculating the optimal mass of XAFS samples. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 712:012008. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/712/1/012008
- Chernikov R, Welter E, Caliebe W, et al (2016) Fast EXAFS in synchronous scanning mode at PETRA P06. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 712:012020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/712/1/012020
- Klementiev K, Chernikov R (2014) Powerful scriptable ray tracing package xrt. Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics III 9209:92090A. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2061400

Brookhaven National Laboratory
National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000