First name: Oleg
Patronymic name: Valer'evich
Last name: Motygin

Мотыгин Олег Валерьевич

December 23, 1970, Leningrad, USSR (now St.Petersburg, Russia)

2007	D.Sc. (Math.-Phys.) in Mechanics of Fluid, Gas and Plasma, from M.A. Lavrent'ev Institute of Hydrodynamics, Novosibirsk, Russia; Thesis title: “Trapped modes and correctness of statements in linear problems of surface wave theory”
1996	PhD Degree (Math.-Phys.) in Mechanics of Fluid, Gas and Plasma, from Math.-Mech. Department of St.Petersburg State University, Russia; Thesis title: “Waves effects and the wave-making resistance for 2D bodies moving in homogeneous and two-layer fluid”
1993–1996	Postgrad Student in Mechanics of Deformable Solids, in Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering, Russian Acad. of Sc.;
1993	MSc Degree (with honours) in Applied Mathematics, from Department of Appl. Math., Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute.

Leading Researcher, Laboratory for Math. Modelling of Wave Phenomena, Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences

Winner of the contest of personal grants (scholarships) for students, postgraduate students, young scientists and specialists of St.Petersburg in the field of the humanities, natural, technical and medical sciences, culture and art. (1998). Project: “Trapped modes of oscillations in the oblique water wave problem”;

A postdoctoral Fellowship Award by the Royal Society/NATO/FCO Chevening, one-year position of Visiting Researcher at Dept. of Math. Sciences, Loughborough Univ. of Technology, UK, 1999;

London Mathematical Society grant for short-term visit to Dept. of Math. Sciences, Loughborough Univ. of Technology, UK, 2002.

RFBR research and book publishing grants 2000–2002, 2001–2002, 2005.