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 | Менделеевская средняя школа N°2, Московская обл., Россия | |
| 
 |  | B.S. summa
cum laude, Applied
Mathematics
and Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (МФТИ) | 
| Aug 1993-May 1994 |  | US-Russia Presidents Undergraduate Exhange Student, Rochester Institute of Technology | 
| June-Aug 1994 | ||
| 
 |  | M.A. (1997), Ph.D. (2001), Astrophysical
Sciences, Princeton University [adviser: Professor Russell Kulsrud] | 
| 
 |  | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Physics and
Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | 
| 
 |  | Research Associate, Dept. of Physics/Plasma Physics Group, Imperial College London | 
| 
 |  | Research Fellow, DAMTP/Astrophysical
Fluid Dynamics Group, University of Cambridge | 
| Oct 2003-Sept 2005 |  | Research Fellow in Physics, Wolfson College | 
| Jan 2004-Oct 2005 | UKAFF
Fellow | |
| Oct 2005-Sept 2007 |  | Research Fellow in Sciences, King's College | 
| Nov 2005-Sept 2006 | ||
| 
 |  | Lecturer in Plasma Physics, Dept.
of
Physics/Plasma
Physics Group, Imperial College London | 
|  Sept 2006-Dec 2008 | ||
| Sept 2006-Dec 2008 | ||
| 
 |  | University Lecturer in Theoretical Astrophysics, Dept. of Physics/Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford | 
| from July 2014 | Professor of Theoretical Physics | |
| from Dec 2008 |  | Tutor in Physics, Merton College | 
| Jan 2009-Oct 2010 |