Education:

• 1986-1988: Specialized Physical and Mathematical School at Novosibirsk State University, Russia
• 1988-1992: BSc, Department of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University
• 1992-1994: MSc, Department of Mathematics, Novosibirsk State University
• 1999-2003: PhD, Operations Research group, Department of Quantitative Economics, Maastricht University SBE

Experience:

• 1991-1999: part-time researcher at Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia
• 1994: business analyst at Siberian Trade Bank, Novosibirsk, Russia
• 1994-1999: head of R&D department at "Zolotaya Korona" (Golden Crown)
• 2003-2005: postdoc at Maastricht University (NWO TACO-project: Treewidth And Combinatorial Optimization)
• 2005-2010: assistant professor, Maastricht University
• 2010-2018: associate professor, Maastricht University
• 2014-: adjunct professor, Novosibirsk State University, Russia
• 2019-: professor, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics

Visiting professorships:

• Sobolev Institute of Mathematics (Novosibirsk, Russia, 2006)
• IBM T.J.Watson Research Center (NY, USA, 2006, 2008)
• National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece, 2009)
• University of Orleans (France, 2012)
• University of Montpellier (France, 2013)
• University of Warwick (England, 2013)
• Novosibirsk State University (Russia, 2014)
• Higher School of Economics (Russia, 2014)

PhD-Students:

• Joyce van Loon - “Algorithmic pricing” (2009)
• Natalya Usotskaya - “Exploiting geometric properties in combinatorial optimization” (2011)
• Bert Marchal - “Treewidth: Structural properties and algorithmic insights” (2012)