BACKGROUND

Qualifications

• MSc (Gorky): 1977
• PhD (Gorky): 1981

Career

• Research Engineer, Research Institute for Mechanics, Gorky University, USSR: 1977-1983
• Associate Professor, Nizhny Novgorod University, Russia: 1983-1992
• Visiting Research Fellow, The Technical University of Denmark: 1987-1988, 1992 (July - September)
• Visiting Research Fellow, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands: 1992 (January - July), 1994 (July & August), 1995 (September)
• Senior Lecturer, University of Bradford: 1993-1995
• Visiting Research Fellow, Hiroshima University, Japan: 1995 (November)-1996 (January)
• Reader in Structural Mechanics, University of Bradford: 1995 - 1999
• Visiting Professor, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands: 1996 - 2003
• Professor of Computational Mechanics, University of Bradford: 1999 - 2003
• Principal Design Optimization Specialist, Altair Engineering Ltd: 2003 - present

Membership of Learned Societies

• Past Secretary General (1999-2003) and Member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO)
• Secretary of the Association for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization in the UK (ASMO UK)
• Member of the Multidisciplinary Design Optimization Technical Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA MDO TC)

Editorial activities

• Co-editor of the International Journal of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

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