Principal Researcher:

Laboratory of Nanomaterials Mechanics and Theory of Defects, Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bolshoj 61, Vasil. Ostrov, St. Petersburg 199178, Russia

Professor:

Department of Physics of Materials Strength and Plasticity, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Polytekhnicheskaya 29, 195251, Russia

Leading Researcher:

Department of Theory of Elasticity, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskii 28, Stary Petergof, St. Petersburg 198504, Russia

Visiting Researcher
(Sept – Dec 2001, Sept – Nov 1999)

at the Institute of Physical Metallurgy, Freiberg University of Mining and Technology, Freiberg, Germany
Theory of defects in metals and alloys under large deformation

Senior Research Associate
(Apr 2000 – March 2001)

at the School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Martensitic phase transformations in smart materials as TRIP steels, shape memory, damping and implant alloys

Visiting Researcher
(Apr – July 1999, June – Sept 1998)

at the Laboratory of Mechanics and Materials, Polytechnic School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Models of defects in gradient elasticity

Visiting Researcher
(Jan – Feb 1996)

at the Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering Department, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
Models of defects in gradient elasticity

Visiting Researcher
(July – Dec 1995)

at the Research Group on Mechanics of Heterogeneous Solids, Max-Planck-Society, Dresden, Germany
Vacancy diffusion based theory of high-temperature oxidation of metals