1983

Ph. D. degree in Physics and Mathematics at P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences for the work "Room temperature stable color center lasers tunable in the near IR region." (Adviser Prof. T.T.Basiev)

1976-1978

Master degree (with honors) in Electronic Engineering, Moscow Power Engineering Institute – Technical University; Direction – Semiconductors and Insulators; Specialization: Materials for Quantum Electronics. Thesis: “Laser Spectroscopy of Nd-ions in disordered crystals”.

1972-1976

BS degree in Electronic Engineering, Moscow Power Engineering Institute – Technical University

1999 - pr. time

2005 - pr. time

1997 - pr. time

1994 - 1999

Professor of Physics, UAB

Co-Director, Center for Optical Sensors and Spectroscopies, UAB

Associate Director, Laser & Photonics Research Center, UAB

Associate Professor of Physics; Secondary appointment - Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

1993 - 1994

Visiting Associate, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Biomedical Engineering & Physics Departments

1990 (2 mon.)

Visiting Professor, University of San Paulo, Brazil

1988 - 1992

Principal Research Scientist and Group Leader at Solid State Physics Department, General Physics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. 2 Master and 4 Ph.D. Degree Recipients Supervised

1983-1988

Senior Staff Research Physicist and Group Leader at the Department of Solid State Physics, Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy of Solids, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences

1978-1983

Staff Research Physicist, P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences