December 23, 1970, Leningrad, USSR

1993	MSc Degree (with honours) in Applied Mathematics, from Department of Appl. Math., Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute (now State Marine Technical University of St.Petersburg — SMTU).
1993–1996	Postgrad Student in Mechanics of Deformable Solids, in Institute of Problems in Mechanical Engineering, Russian Acad. of Sc.;
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”
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”

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

Since 2010, a member of Organizing and Program Committees of the annual International Conference Days on Diffraction (DD). Editor-in-chief of DD Proceedings.

Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, V.O., Bol'shoy pr., 61, St.Petersburg, 199178, Russian Federation

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