Nikita Kavokine’s research is in the field of nanofluidics – the study of fluid transport at the smallest scales, where the continuum of hydrodynamics meets the atomic, and even the quantum nature of matter.
Nikita 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 Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, where he was a Group Leader in the Department of Molecular Spectroscopy.
Since 2024, Nikita is an Assistant Professor at EPFL (Switzerland), where he leads the Quantum Plumbing Lab – an interdisciplinary laboratory which studies quantum effects in nanoscale fluid transport and leverages them to address sustainability and renewable energy challenges.