Vladislav Sorokin
Vladislav Sorokin is Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and Head of the Waves and Dynamics Research Group, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is also a Co-chair and Board Member of the Aotearoa Wave and Tidal Energy Association, New Zealand, and Guest editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
Dr. Sorokin obtained his MSc degree from Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University in 2010 and PhD and Doctor of Science degrees from the Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering Russian Academy of Science in 2011 and 2016, respectively. Held a prestigious post-doctoral position at the Technical University of Denmark funded by the FP7 Marie Curie Actions – COFUND, during 2014-2016. In 2017 he was appointed as a Lecturer at the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, the University of Auckland.
In 2021, Vladislav was invited to act as an official Visiting Academic Fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, and in 2024 as a Visiting Professor at the University of Le Mans, France. Published more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and registered 2 patents. This includes 50 publications in highly reputable Q1 journals, such as invited contributions to Nature and Philosophical Transactions Series A as a lead and corresponding author.
Dr. Sorokin’s research areas include energy harvesting from marine resources, including ocean waves, fluid-structure interaction problems, structural dynamics and elastic wave propagation, acoustic and elastic metamaterials, stochastic systems and related phenomena, analytical and semi-analytical methods in linear and nonlinear dynamics.