My Curriculum Vitae

Academic positions

• 2006-present Scientist, Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki (Finland)
• 2003-2006 CITA Postdoctoral Fellow at Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (Canada)

Education and degrees

• 2000-2003 Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow. Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics. Thesis “Evolution of inhomogeneous cosmological models with relativistic forms of matter”. Advisor: Alexei Starobinsky
  
• 1994-2000 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (PhysTech). M. Sc., summa cum laude. Senior Thesis: “Stochastic Pre-Big-Bang Cosmology”. Advisor: Alexei Starobinsky

Awards and fellowships

• 2000-2003 Landau Fellowship Winner, Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany
• 1997-2000 Title “Soros Student” and Scholarship from Soros Foundation

Community Service and Organizational Experience

• Organizing committee member for the International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe COSMO-04, Toronto, Canada, 17-24 Sep 2004
• Local organizing committee member for the 5th International Conference on Cosmoparticle Physics COSMION-2001, Moscow, Russia, 21-30 May 2001

Teaching experience

• Lecture course “Inflationary Perturbations” at the University of Helsinki, Spring 2008
• Invited lectures, Helmholtz International Summer School on Modern Mathematical Physics, Dubna, Russia; 22 – 30 Jul 2007
• Invited lectures, Dubna International Advanced School of Theoretical Physics, JINR, Dubna, Russia; 3-12 September 2006

Talks and seminars

• PLANCK 2008, 19-23 May 2008, Barcelona, Spain; talk
• LPT – Paris XI Orsay, France, 11 Feb 2008; seminar
• Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland, 12 Dec 2007; seminar
• University of Lancaster, UK; 26 Oct 2007; seminar
• International Workshop “Initial Conditions For Cosmology”, Wurzburg, Germany, 3-8 Sep 2007; talk
• International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe COSMO-07, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 21 – 25 Aug 2007; talk
• Workshop “Cosmology, Strings and Phenomenology”, Stockholm, Sweden; 11-15 Jun 2007; talk
• Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland; 20 Apr 2007; seminar
• Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki Institute of Technology, Espoo, Finland; 12 Apr 2007; seminar
• Finnish-Japanese Workshop on Particle Cosmology, Helsinki, Finland; 8-9 March 2007; talk
• Seminar on Problems of Measurability in Quantum Gravity and Dark Part of the Universe, St. Petersburg, Russia; 30 Nov – 2 Dec 2006; talk
• International Workshop on Non-perturbative Dynamics in the Early Universe, Madrid, Spain; 13-15 Sept 2006; talk
• Helsinki Institute of Physics, Finland; 1 Sept 2006; seminar
• University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 27 Mar 2006; seminar
• Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada; 8 Dec 2005; seminar
• University of McGill, Montreal, Canada; 29 Nov 2005; seminar
• 6th PI/UT/CITA Workshop, Waterloo, Canada; 11 Apr 2005; talk
• International Conference on Cosmology and High Energy Astrophysics “Zeldovich-90″, Moscow, Russia; 20 – 24 Dec 2004; talk
• International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe COSMO-04, Toronto, Canada, 17 – 24 Sep 2004; talk
• 6th Conference “Landau Days”, Chernogolovka, Russia; 21 – 23 Jun 2004; talk
• Toronto Astrophysical Gas and Fluid Dynamics Group Seminar, “Two-Dimensional Turbulence”, 29 Apr 2004
• CITA seminar, “Turbulence and Vortex Line Approximation”; 24 Nov 2003
• 5th International Conference on Cosmoparticle Physics COSMION-2001, Moscow, Russia; 21 – 30 May 2001; talk

Publications

• “Disorder on the landscape”, with J. Majumder and N. Jokela, JCAP 0805, 024 (2008), hep-th/0804.2263
• “On the divergences of inflationary superhorizon perturbations”, with K. Enqvist, S. Nurmi and G. Rigopoulos, JCAP 0804, 025 (2008) [hep-th/0802.0395].
• “General asymptotic solutions of the Einstein equations and phase transitions in quantum gravity”, hep-th/0704.0354
• “Eternal inflation and localization on the landscape”, with K. Enqvist, hep-th/0704.0144
• “Preheating with threelinear interactions: tachyonic resonance”, with J.-F. Dufaux, G. Felder, L. Kofman and M. Peloso, JCAP 0607, 006 (2006) [hep-ph/0602144]
• “Equation of State and Beginning of Thermalization after Preheating”, with G. Felder, L. Kofman and M. Peloso, PRD 73, 023501 (2006) [hep-ph/0507096]
• “Singularity Structure in Veneziano’s model”, JETP 97, 649 (2003), [hep-th/0310270]
• “Chaotic Reheating”, with A. Starobinsky, GrCosm 8N1, 13 (2002), [astro-ph/0204327]
• “On the Problem of Equation of State for the Lambda Field”, AL 28, 434 (2002), [gr-qc/0203010]
• “Hydrodynamics of an Ultrarelativistic Fluid in the Flat Anisotropic Cosmological Model”, with V. Ruban, PRD 64, 047503 (2001), [gr-qc/0102087]
• “Finite Time Singularities in a Class of Hydrodynamic Models”, with V. Ruban and J.J. Rasmussen, PRE 63, 056306 (2001), [physics/0012007]