Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Education, academic degrees obtained

1984 MSc. in Geology, Polytechnic University of Tomsk, Tomsk, USSR

1990 Ph.D. in Petrology, Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR.

1999 Habilitation in Petrology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.

2008 Habilitation in Geodynamics, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

Positions held

1984-1987: Junior Researcher, Institute of Geology and Geophysics USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, USSR

1987-1990: Ph.D. student, Institute of Experimental Mineralogy Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow dist., Russia

1990-2000: Research Associate-> Senior Researcher->Head of the Laboratory of Metamorphism, Institute of Experimental Mineralogy Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow dist., Russia

1990-1999: Associate Professor, Moscow State University, Russia

2000-2004: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow, Guest Scientist, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Bochum, Germany

2004-2005: Oberassitent (Senior Research Scientist, Lecturer) Geological Institute, ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2005-2008: Oberassitent (Senior Research Scientist, Lecturer) Geophysical Institute, ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland   

2008-2010: Privardozent, Geophysical Institute, ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2010-: Professor, Geophysical Institute, ETH-Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

Teaching

1990-1996: Physico-Chemical Petrology, Thermobarometry, BASIC-programming, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

1997-1999: Geodynamics, Numerical modeling, C-programming, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

2004-2005: Theoretical tectonics: Geodynamics, Mathematical modeling in geology, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

2006-: Continuum Mechanics, Numerical Modelling, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

Field Experience

1982-2000: over 20 field expeditions in different regions of Europe, Asia and Africa

Languages

Russian, English, German, French

Honors

2007: Adjunct Professor of Geology Department of Moscow State University

2008: Listed in Top 50 Russian scientists abroad, Russian Newsweek Magazine

2008: Golden Owl Price from ETH-students for excellence in teaching

2008: Top reviewer for Tectonophysics

Supervising

Postdocs
Guizhi Zhu (2008-2011)
Lin Chen (2010-2011)
PhD students
Weronika Gorczyk (2004-2007)
Manuele Faccenda (2006-2009)
Kseniya Nikolaeva (2006-2009)
Zhonhai Li (2007-2010)
Ja-Ren Lin (2007-2011)
Yuri Mishin (2007-2010)
Gregor Golabek (2007-2010)
Elena Sizova (2008-2011)
Thibault Duretz (2008-2011)
Bettina Baitsch-Ghirardello (2008-2012)
Katharina Vogt (2009-2012)
Diana Dymkova (2009-2012)
Ylona van Dinther (2009-2012)
Maike Schubert (2009-2012)
Jie Liao (2010-2014)
Visiting PhD students
Kenni Dinesen Petersen (2007-2008)
Yuri Elesin (2007-2008)
Cristina Malatesta (2008-2011)
Idael Blanko (2009-2010)
MSc students
Yolanda Deubelbeiss (2005)
Kosuke Ueda (2006, semester work)
Rohit Nandedkar (2008, semester work)
Irena Löw (2007-2008)
Christoph Puethe (2011-2012)
Ria Fisher (2011-2012)
BSc students
Curdin Cantieni (2006)
David Fossati (2006)
Cyrill Baumann (2007)
Marcel Hegnauer (2008)
Gian-Peider Moll (2008-2009)
Luca Malatesta (2009)

Papers review

reviewer for >10 peer-review journals including Nature and Science