| Date of birth: | 26 February, 1951 |
| Place of birth: | Rostov, Jaroslavl region, Russia |
| Marital status: | married, one child |
| 1968 | Certificate of the National Advanced Phys.-Math. School No.18 (in Moscow) headed by Academician A. N. Kolmogorov. |
| 1968-1973 | Student of the Moscow State University, Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty. |
| May 1973 | Diploma in Mathematics, Supervisor: Prof. V. M. Tikhomirov. |
| Diploma thesis: Theory of variational and Minimization Problems with Lagrange Multipliers. | |
| Nov. 1978 | PhD in Phys.-Math., JINR, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia. |
| Iterative Newton-type Methods for Classes of Nonlinear Problems in Mathematical Physics. | |
| June 1991 | Doctor of Sciences in Phys.-Math., JINR, Dubna. |
| Optimization of Numerical Algorithms for Solving Magnetostatics and Theoretical Physics Problems. |
| 1973-1980 | Researcher at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Moscow region, Russia. |
| 1980-1994 | Senior Researcher, Leading researher at JINR, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia. |
| 1994-1996 | Head of Numer. Methods Division at JINR, Dubna. |
| 1995-1998 | Visiting Professor/Senior Researcher at the Institute for |
| Computer Applications (ICA3), University of Stuttgart, Germany. | |
| 1998-1999 | Research Professor at the Institute of Informatics and Applied Mathematics, |
| University of Kiel, Germany. | |
| 1999-present | Senior Researcher, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. |
| From 2001 also Privatdozent (PD) at the University of Leipzig, Germany. |