EDUCATION AND DEGREES

• 1989: D.Sc., Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (Kiev). Date of award: January 1989. Title of the dissertation: ``Perturbation theory for nonlinear waves".
• 1978-1981: Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, Institute for Chemical Physics, USSR Academy of Sciences (Chernogolovka, Moscow district) and Moscow Physico- Technical Institute. Title of the dissertation: ``Nonlinear self-oscillatory and dissipative waves". Adviser: Prof. Ya.B. Zeldovich.
• 1975-1977: M.Sc., Theoretical Physic, Byelorussian State University (Minsk). Title of the Master's thesis: ``Regularization procedures in mathematical physics". Supervisor: Prof. L.I. Komarov.
• 1972-1975: B.Sc., Physics, Byelorussian State University (Minsk).

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Since April 2000: Full Professor (with tenure), Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University
• Oct 96 - March 2000: Associate Professor, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University
• Oct 91 - Sep 96: Associate Professor, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University
• Oct 90 - Feb 91: Visiting Associate Professor, Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, University Paris-VI, France
• July 90 - Sep 91: Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• Dec 85 - Jul 90: Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Oceanology, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
• June 81 - Dec 85: Research Scientist, Institute for Biological tests of Chemical Compounds, Moscow

ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

• 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989 - International workshops on nonlinear processes in physics, Kiev, USSR.
• 1989 - International conference on irreversible processes and self-organizat- ion, Rostock, Germany
• 1989 - NATO conference on nonlinear evolution of spatio-temporal structures, Streitberg, Germany
• 1990 - Conference on macroscopic nonlinearity in condensed matter physics, Florence, Italy
• 1991 - Workshop on large-scale structures in turbulence, Villefrache-sur-Mer, France
• 1991 - Conference on inverse problems and integrable systems, Montpellier, France
• 1991 - NATO workshop on nonequilibrium chemical dynamics, Brussels, Belgium
• 1992 - International conference "New trends in nonlinear processes in physics and biology", Lyngby, Denmark
• 1992 - German-Israeli symposium on applied analysis, Gosen, Germany
• 1993 - Second Israeli International Conference on High-Temperature Superconductivity, Eilat, Israel
• 1993 - International workshop on defects in nonlinear patterns, Haifa, Israel
• 1993 - International workshop on nonlinear processes in physics and biology, Bayreuth, Germany
• 1993 - invited lecture at the IUTAM Symposium on nolinear waves in solids, Victoria, Canada
• 1994 - invited lecture at the Study Center "Nonlinear Optics and Guided Waves", Edinburgh, UK
• 1994 - invited talk at the IUTAM Symposium "Nonlinear Waves in Liquids", Hannover, Germany
• 1995 - invited talk at the interdisciplinary workshop "Nonlinear Physics: Theory and Experiment", Lecce, Italy
• 1995 - invited talk at the workshop "Nonlinear processes in physical and biological systems, Edinburgh, UK
• 1995 - a contributed talk at the international conference on pattern formation in nonlinear systems, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 1995 - an invited talk at the international workshop "Finite-dimaensional models of systems described by PDE's", Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, England.
• 1996 - an invited talk at the international workshop "Mathematical problems of superfluidity and nonlinear optics", Haifa.
• 1996 - an invited talk at the international conference "Fluctuations, nonlinearity, and disorder", Crete, Greece
• 1997 Contributed talk at the international conference, ``Simulation and identification of organized structures in flows'', Lyngby, Denmark
• 1997 Contributed talk at the international conference, ``Solitons and coherent structures in physics and biology'', Lyngby, Denmark.
• 1997 Contributed talk at the international conference, ``Applied nonlinear dynamics near the millennium'', San Diego, USA.
• 1997 Contributed talk at the international workshop ``Optical Solitons'', Canberra, Australia.
• 1997 Invited talk at the international symposium, ``Nonlinear dynamics and Josephson junctions'', Salerno, Italy.
• 1998 Invited talk at a workshop on problems of nonlinear optics, Potsdam, NY, USA.
• 1998 Invited talk at the Second International Conference CASYS'98, Liege, Belgium.
• 1999 Invited talk at the workshop ``Kinetic equations'', Haifa, Israel.
• 1999 Invited talk at the workshop ``Solitons, collapses, and turbulence'' in honor of Vladimir Zakharov's 60th birthday, Moscow, Russia.
• 1999 Invited talk at the workshop on vortices and topological defects in optical patterns, Dresden, Germany.
• 1999 Invited talk at the 1999 Annual LEOS meeting, San Francisco, USA.
• 1999 Invited talk at a workshop ``Massive WDM and TDM Soliton Systems'', Kyoto (Japan), 1999.
• 2000 A talk at the CLEO conference (San Francisco, USA).
• 2000 An invited talk at the NATO Advanced Study Institute ``Nonlinearity and Disorder'' (Tashkent, Uzbekistan).
• 2001 Two invited talks at the Second International IMACS meeting on nonlinear evolutional equations (Athens, Georgia)
• 2001 An invited talk at the international meeting ``Legacy of the Inverse Scattering transform" (Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA).
• 2001 A talk at an international workshop ``Nonlinear lattice structure and dynamics" (Dresden, Germany).
• 2001 An invited talk at an informal workshop ``Nonlinear Waves" (Ciudad Real, Spain).
• 2002 An invited talk at a workshop ``Intrinsic localied modes: from paradigm to reality, theory to experiment" (Los Alamos National Laboratory: July 2002).
• 2003 Three invited talks at the Third IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena (April 7-10, Athens, Georgia, US).
• 2003 An invited talk at the European Science Foundation workshop Josephson Junctions: basic studeies and novel applications (Jena, Germany).
• An invited talk at the International School of Solid State Physics (Intrinsic Localized Modes and Discrete Breathers in Nonlinear Lattices). Erice (Sicily, Italy), June 21-27, 2003.
• An invited talk at the NATO Advanced Research Workshop ``Nonlinear Waves: Classical and Quantum Aspects" (Estoril, Portugal, 13 -17 July, 2003).
• An invited talk at the Workshop on Theoretical Plasma Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy, July 12-16, 2004).
• Four invited talks at the SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (Orlando, US, October 2-5, 2004).

DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS

• 1993 - a joint grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and the Japanese Society for promotion of Science for doing a research project in Japan (3 months)
• 1993 - a research grant, $4,000, from the Research Office of the Tel Aviv University to support a project ``Study of optical solitons' dynamics by variational methods"
• 1994 - a special research grant, $7,700, from the research Office of the Tel Aviv University, given in lieu of the BSF grant, to support a project ``Interactions of solitons with inhomogeneities"
• 1994 - a joint grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and the Center for International Mobility (Finland) for doing a research project in Finland (2 weeks)
• 1994 - a joint grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science and the Greek Ministry of Science for doing a research project in Greece (2 weeks).
• 1995 - a research grant, $3,000, from the Research Office of the Tel Aviv University to a support a project "Dynamics of solitons in bimodal optical fibers"
• 1996 - a ``Window-on-Science" grant from the European Office of the US Air Force
• 1996 - a major research grant, 352,000 German marks (received jointly with Prof. E. Ben-Jacob of the Tel Aviv University) from the German-Israeli Foundation.
• 1997 - a special travel grant for a visit to Japan (52 days) from the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science.
• 1997 - a ``Window-on-Science" grant from the European Office of the US Air Force
• 1997 Research grant, $3,000 from the Research Office of the Tel Aviv University to a support a project ``Dynamics of truncated 3-dimensional Euler equations.
• 1997 INTAS (European Union) grant to support a project ``Regular and chaotic dynamics of optical solitons in inhomogeneous and active fibers and arrays of waveguides".
• 1998 Research grant, $10,000 from the Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University through the Fleischman Foundation.
• 1998 A Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship from the University of Bristol for a six-week visit to carry out a joint research project.
• 1999 A grant in the size of $6,000 from the Tel Aviv University Research Foundation for carrying out a project ``Theoretical investigation of new types of optical solitons".
• 1999 A grant from CNR (Italy) and Israeli Ministry of Sciences for carrying out a joint project with Drs. G. Filatrella and S. Pagano (University of Salerno, Italy) on dynamics of solitons in long Josephson junctions.
• 1999 ``Window-on-Science" grant from the European Office of the US Air Force
• 1999 A grant for a research visit to Japan from the Japan Society for Promotion of Science.
• 2000 ``Window-on-Science" grant from the European Office of the US Air Force
• 2000 A grant for purchase of research equipment, $65,000, from the Israel Science Foundation (Israeli National Academy of Sciences), jointly with M. Tur, D. Mendlovic, and S. Ruschin
• 2000-2003 A major research grant, No. 1999459, from the Binational (US - Israel) Science Foundation, for carrying a research project ``Theoretical and experimental studies of optical spatiotemporal solitons", with F. Wise and S. Bar-Ad.
• 2001 ``Window-on-Science" grant from the European Office of the US Air Force
• 2002 A grant from the Research Foundation of the Tel Aviv University in the size of $6,000 for conducting research in the topic ``Dynamics of pulses in fiber-optic telecommunication networs: non-return-to-zero format".
• 2003 A major grant form the Israel Science Foundation to establish and coordinate an Excellence Research Center, No. 8006/03, on the topic ``Coherent matter-wave optics". The net budget for the first year is NIS 836,000.

REFEREEING SERVICE FOR INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

RESEARCH STUDENTS SUPERVISED

M.S. Students

• 1986-1988 I.E. Staroselsky, Moscow Physico-Technical Institute
• 1990 A. Fedorov, Moscow Physico-Technical Institute
• 1999 - 2000 R. Driben Tel Aviv University
• 2001-2002 A. Orenstein, Tel Aviv University
• 2003 A. Levi, Tel Aviv University
• 2002-2003 A. Gubeskys, Tel Aviv University
• 2003-2004 V. Lutsky, Tel Aviv University
• 2004- Y. Leitner, Tel Aviv University
• 2004- A. Zafrany, Tel Aviv University
• 2004- A. Siegler, Tel Aviv University

Ph.D. Students

• 1986-1988 I.E. Staroselsky, Moscow Physico-Technical Institute
• 1992-1996 A.G. Schnirman, Tel Aviv University (jointly with Prof. E. Ben-Jacob)
• 1992-1998: R.S. Tasgal, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Tel Aviv University
• 1995-1998 W. Mak, School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
• 2001 - R. Driben, Tel Aviv University
• 2002 - I. Merhasin, Tel Aviv University
• 2002 - T. Mayteevarunyoo, Mahanakorn University of Technology (Bangkok, Thailand)
• 2003- A. Gubeskys, Tel Aviv University

Postdocs

• 1999-2000 Miriam Blaauboer, Tel Aviv University
• 2001 - Isaac Towers, Tel Aviv University

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