Polina A. Pestova

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Education: 
  • 2022 - present - Ph.D. program, Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • 2020 - 2022 - Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, MS Program (diploma with honors). The title of the thesis: “The use of focused ultrasound shock-wave beams to accelerate thermal ablation of clinically relevant biological tissue volumes”, scientific adviser: Dr.Sc., associate professor Vera A. Khokhlova, scientific consultant: Ph.D. Maria M. Karzova
  • 2016 - 2020 - Department of Acoustics, Physics Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Acoustics, BS program (diploma with honors). The title of the thesis: “Effects of focus trajectory on uniformity of temperature field produced in ablation of biological tissue by pulsed shock-wave ultrasound”, scientific adviser: Dr.Sc., associate professor Vera A. Khokhlova
  • 2014 - 2016 -  high school, Moscow State University Advanced Educational Center (Russia)
  • 2011 - 2014 - school №192, Moscow
  • 2005 - 2011 – school №1229, Moscow
Honors/Awards: 
  • 2020-2021 - A stipend from the Theoretical Physics and Mathematics Advancement Foundation “BASIS” for intending MS students of MSU Physics Faculty
  • 2019-2022 - M.V. Lomonosov stipend at the Physics Department of Moscow State University
  • 2019-2020 - State Enhanced Academic Stipend (excellence studies)
  • 2019 - Focused Ultrasound Global Internship Program in summer 2019
  • 2016 - Prizewinner of “United Interuniversity School Olympiad in Mathematics”
  • 2016 - Prizewinner of “Lomonosov” School Olympiad in Mathematics
  • 2016 - Prizewinner of “Kurchatov” School Olympiad in Physics
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Publications

2023

  1. P.A. Pestova, M.M. Karzova, P.V. Yuldashev, and V.A. Khokhlova
    "The use of focused ultrasound beams with shocks to suppress diffusion effects in volumetric thermal ablation of biological tissue"

    Acoustical Physics,

    69
    4
    448–458, DOI: 10.1134/S1063771023600468

2021

  1. P.A. Pestova, M.M. Karzova, P.V. Yuldashev, W. Kreider, and V.A. Khokhlova
    "Impact of treatment trajectory on temperature field uniformity in biological tissue irradiated by ultrasound pulses with shocks"

    Acoustical Physics

    67
    3
    250–258