2003-2009 2009-2015	Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida
	2000-2003	Research Associate JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
	1999-2000	Post-doctoral position in the Fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics, Jerusalem, Israel
	1996-1999	Ph.D. thesis under supervision of Françoise Masnou-Seeuws, Laboratoire Aime Cotton, Universite de Paris XI, Orsay, France.
	1989-1996	Master Degree, Faculty of Physics, Saint-Petersburg State University, Petersburg, Russia

Fellow of American Physical Society

Research Interests

Electron-molecule collisions, quantum defect theory, ultracold atoms and molecules, quantum control of reactions at low energies, elementary AMO processes in the interstellar medium and cold plasma, three-body AMO processes at low energies

International Collaboration

• Member of the Coordinated Research Project of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA, Vienna). Providing expertise on AMO processes at low energies relevant to the ongoing construction of the ITER thermonuclear reactor (tokamak). The US is one of the seven international partners of the ITER project (see www.iter.org ).
  
• Member of the expertise team for the development of database on electron-molecule processes to support the KSTAR tokamak in South Korea.

• May-August 2005: Poste rouge du CNRS at the Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, University of Paris XI, Orsay, France.

• June 2008-August 2008; May2009- August 2010; May 2011- August 2011; May- July 2012 – Chair Junior d'Excellence (Visiting Professor) of RTRA network (RTRA - Thematic Networks for Advanced Research), University of Paris XI, Orsay, France.

• May 2014- July 2014 – Invited professor at the University of Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France. Supported by the regional government of the Champagne-Ardenne region.

Teaching

Fall 2016

Ultracold Chemistry

Other courses taught

Publications

Full list of publications