I received master degree in 1976, PHD in 1995. Work for 20 years at Space Research Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. I parallel worked for South West Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas. Mostly, analyzed the data from different spacecraft. Areas of interests: solar wind, interaction of the solar with planetary environment, such magnetomapuse, bow shock. Developed new space plasma instrumentation, such as SCA1 for Interball spacecraft, Fast Plasma Analyzer for Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission Mission (MMS). Heavily involved in design, development and calibration plasma instruments. Co-I for HERMESS/CPAI instrument, EEA (ion and electron sensors, TOF masspectrometr CPAI). Received NRC position in 2001 at Marshall Space Flight Center. Moved in 2009 to Goddard Space Flight Center, employed by University of Maryland. Currently I am principal research engineer of Astronomy Department of UMD. I work now on new type of plasma instruments for space research. Based on work done in the lab received US patent and applied for new one. Published more than 100 papers on plasma research and space instrumentation.

Research Areas:

Solar, stellar & space plasma physics

Instrumentation

Research Centers & Collaborations: Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research