Education:
1996: MS in mathematics from State University, Kiev, Ukraine

Career:
1992-1997: Joint Ukraine-Canada Sc.&R. Enterprise "NET SHAPE CAST, Ltd." Research Associate
1998 to present: Joint Ukraine-Canada Sc.&R. Enterprise "NET SHAPE CAST, Ltd." Director

Field of activity:

• Magnetic hydrodynamics (MHD)
• Heat and mass transfer in metallurgical processes: melting, solidification
• MHD applications in metallurgy: melting, purification of liquid metals, continuous casting (billet, bloom, slab, sheet)
• Near net shape casting into magneto-impulse crystallizers

Main publications:

1. Kolesnichenko Anastasia A., Buryak V., Saucedo I., Kolesnichenko A.F., Prymak S., Vasiouk S. The principle of forbidden zones by MHD containment of liquid metals. -Intern. Congress Electromegnetic Processing of Materials. Paris, France, May 1997
2. Kolesnichenko An. A., Buryak V., Pavlicevic M., Kolesnichenko A.F., , Vasiouk S. MHD heat pipes for liquid metal electrodes. - Third Intern. Conf. on Transfer Phenomena in Magnetohydrodynamic and Electroconducting Flows. Aussois, France, Sept. 1997
3. Kolesnichenko An. A., Buryak V., Kolesnichenko A.F. The action of pulse induction system for treatment of liquid metals. - Intern. Induction Heating Seminar. Padua, Italy, May 1998
4. Kolesnichenko An. A., Kolesnichenko A.F., Vasiouk S. Preliminary heating of steel sheet by traveling magnetic field inductor. - International Induction Heating Seminar. Padua, Italy, May 1998
5. Kolesnichenko An. A., Buryak V., Kolesnichenko A.F., Vasiouk S. Edge effect of asynchronous stirrer and meniscus disturbance by billet casting. - The 3rd Intern. Symposium on Electromagnetic Processing of Materials. Nogoya, April 2000
6. Kolesnichenko An. A., Buryak V., Kolesnichenko A.F., Prymak S., Shevchenko A., Shevchenko O., Vasiouk S. Lifting of liquid metal upward by twin roll strip casting. - The 3rd Intern. Symposium on Electromagnetic Processing of Materials. Nogoya, April 2000
7. Kolesnichenko An.A., Buryak V. MHD heat pipes for imposition of the strong current into the high temperature liquid metals. - Fourth Intern. PAMIR Conference on Magnetohydrodinamics at Dawn of Third Millennium. Presqu'ile de Giens, France, 2000ers