* Engineer-Physicist (with honours), Leningrad Polytechnic
Institute,
1980
* Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (PhD), Leningrad
Polytechnic Institute, 1987
* Docent Diploma, Ministry of Education, Russian Federation, 1994
* Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, St. Petersburg State
Technical University, 1995
* Full Professor Diploma, Ministry of Education, Russian Federation,
1997
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Main appointments:
* Engineer and Junior Researcher, Radiophysics
Department, Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, 1980-1986
* Assistant Professor, Radiophysics Department, Leningrad Polytechnic
Institute, 1986-1989
* Associate Professor (Docent), Radiophysics Department, Leningrad
Polytechnic Institute (Leningrad State Technical University, St.
Petersburg
State Technical University), 1989-1996
* Full Professor and Director of Complex
Media Electromagnetics Laboratory, St.
Petersburg State Technical University, 1996 - Jan. 2000
* Professor of Radio Engineering, Helsinki
University of Technology (from 2010, Aalto University), Aug. 2000 –
Visiting positions:
* Visiting researcher, Electromagnetics
Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, 1988-1989 (10
months),
1991 (6 months), 1997 (6 months)
* Visiting scientist, CEA-CESTA (French Atomic Energy Commission
research
centre), also affiliated with the University of Bordeaux, Laboratory of
Wave-Material Interactions, 1994 (6 months)
* Visiting professor, Electromagnetics Laboratory, Helsinki University
of Technology, Jan. 1999 – July 2000
* Visiting professor, University of Jena, Germany, June – July 2012
* Guest professor, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Jan. – Apr. 2013
MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC POSITIONS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Honorary Doctor of Francisk Skorina Gomel State University (Belarus)
Fellow, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow, the Electromagnetics Academy
Senior Member, Optical Society of America (OSA)
Member, European Microwave Association
Member, Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences (Teknillisten Tieteiden Akatemia)
Founder and Chairman, St. Petersburg IEEE ED/MTT/AP Chapter, 1995-1998
Member, European Microwave Conferences Management Committee, 2000-2002
Deputy Member, URSI (International Union of Radio Science) Finnish National Committee, 2006-2013
Coordinator, FP6 Network of Excellence Metamorphose, 2004-2008
President, Virtual Institute for Artificial Electromagnetic Materials and Metamaterials (”Metamorphose VI”), International Association of European universities, 2007–2013
General chair, International Congress Series on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (Metamaterials), 2007-2013
Steering Committee Member, European Doctoral Degree Programmes on Metamaterials EUPROMETA