Academic titles
— Ph.D in mathematics at the St. Petersburg State University.
— Diploma di Perfezionamento (Ph.D) in mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore
(Pisa, Italy)
— Doctor of Sciences (equivalent of Habilitation or Full professor) in mathematics at the
Institute of Systems and Informatics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Present position
— Senior researcher at the Steklov Research Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg and
— Full professor at the Dept. of Mathematical Physics (PDE), St. Petersburg State University
Scientific interests
– Geometric analysis and metric geometry;
– Direct methods of calculus of variations, applications to differential equations and optimal control;
– Applications of nonlinear analysis to mechanics, elasticity and optics.