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Vladimir Khmelenko is a Russian and American physicist, a research professor at Texas A&M University. He works in the fields of low temperature and condensed matter physics.

Vladimir was born in Shakhty, a city of miners in Rostov region that has most Olympic champions per population in the world: some say that if you don’t fight or run for your life, you don’t survive there.  A graduate of Rostov-on-Don State University(now Southern Federal University), Vladimir continued his education in the Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences (PhD) and Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences(Doctor of Sciences). 

In 1998 he was invited to Cornell University by Noble Laureate David Lee, and was a researcher there. Starting 2010 he continues his research at TAMU. 

Some of his research interests include tunneling reactions, inert-gas solids with nanoscale porosity, impurity-helium solids studies, luminescence of nitrogen and neon atoms isolated in solid helium, exotic Behavior of Hydrogen atoms at temperatures below 1 K, Bose-Einstein Condensation of Magnons in Atomic Hydrogen Gas.