M.S.(Hons), The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (1994) Ph.D., Cornell University, US (1999), Dissertation title: Statistical Mechanics of Cracks; Dualities in Supersymmetric Field Theories; Orientifolds of Type IIB Strings with Discrete B Flux Postgraduate Researcher, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, US (1999-2002) Research Fellow, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics , UofM, US (2002-2003) Assistant Professor, UWO (2003-2007) Associate Professor, UWO (2007-2012) Professor, UWO (2012-) Associate Member, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada (2003-)