| Born: | July 12, 1948, Pinsk, USSR |
| Citizenship: | German and French |
| Marital status: | Married to Elisabeth Juchem-Brevdo |
| Education: | |
| 1955-1964 | Elementary School in Pinsk and Middle School in Kamenez, USSR |
| 1964-1966 | Physical-mathematical High School-Internat No. 18 of A. Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR, High School Diploma |
| 1966-1972 | Moscow State University, Moscow, USSR, M. Sc., Mathematics |
| 1978-1983 | Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, D. Sc., Applied Mathematics |
Academic degrees: | |
| 1972 | M. Sc., Mathematics, Moscow State University, USSR |
| 1983 | D. Sc., Applied Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel |
| 1993 | Habilitated D. Sc., Fluid Mechanics, Braunschweig Technological University, Braunschweig, Germany |
| Languages: | Russian (native language), English (fluent), German (fluent), French (fluent), Hebrew (fluent), Italian (B1 low intermediate level, read and write) |
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Positions held: | |
| 1972-1973 | Computer Programmer, MinskAutomobile Plant, Minsk, USSR |
| 1973-1975 | Unskilled Worker, following my application for an emigration visa to Israel, USSR |
| 1975-1976 | Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1976-1977 | Military Service, Israeli Defense Force, Israel |
| 1977-1978 | Teaching Assistant, Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1978-1983 | Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Technion, Haifa, Israel |
| 1983-1984 | Kennedy-Leigh Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel |
| 1984-1985 | Postdoctoral Fellow,Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA |
| 1985-1987 | Hedrick Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| 1987-1988 | Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Alabama,USA |
| 1988-1990 | Visiting Scientist, German Aerospace Research Establishment, Institute for Theoretical Fluid Mechanics, Göttingen, Germany |
| 1990-1993 | Research Fellow, Institute for Fluid Mechanics, Braunschweig Technological University, Braunschweig, Germany |
| 1994-1998 | Research Fellow, Department of Mathematics, Stuttgart University, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1998-2013 | University Professor, Ecole Supérieure de Mécanique de Marseille, Université de la Méditerranée, and Ecole Centrale Marseille. Since December 2007 put to disposition of the Strasbourg University, France |
| Since 01.09.2013 | Retired |
| Additional experience: | |
| Experience in UNIX, FORTRAN, MACSYMA and LATEX, in advising postgraduate research students, and in writing research proposals | |
| Courses taught: | Calculus, linear algebra, complex analysis, differential equations, infinite series, numerical analysis, asymptotic methods, singular perturbations, continuum mechanics, fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic instabilities, instabilities of geophysical flows, wave packets, flows in porous media, elastic waveguides |
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Research interests: | Mathematical modeling, and analytic and numerical investigation of localized disturbances and instabilities in geophysical and astrophysical flows, shear flows, boundary layers, wakes and elastic waveguides; modeling of atmospheric blockings; modeling of precursor phenomena of earth quakes; floating ice dynamics; modeling of flow and transport phenomena in porous media; waves in spatially periodic flows; waves in time oscillatory flows; waves in inhomogeneous flows; non-linear waves; boundary layer separation in geophysical flows; eN-method for prediction of turbulent transition in boundary layers; flow control |
| Supervision of D.Sc. Theses: | |
| F. Leopold [1993] Simulation and theoretical investigation of instabilities of a wake behind a circular cylinder in a longitudinal flow, Braunschweig Technological University, Braunschweig, Germany. (In a co-supervision with Dr. Jaeggy.) | |
| K. Mills [1999] Absolute and convective instabilities of the magnetopause of the Earth, University of Saint Andrews, Saint Andrews, Scotland, UK. (In a co-supervision with Prof. Rudermann.) | |
| E. Egorova [2012] Nonlinear waves in a beta-plasma with collisions, Yakutsk University, Yakutsk, Russia. (In a co-supervision with Prof. Il'ichev.) | |
| E. Diaz [2012] Absolute and convective instabilities and wave propagation in a saturated porous medium with inclined thermal and solutal gradients, throughflow and gravity, Strasbourg University, France. | |
| Grants and awards: | |
| 1983 | The Technion Jabotinski Award for high standards of the D.Sc. Thesis |
| 1984 | Kennedy-Leigh Research Grant |
| 1986 | California Space Institute Research Award CS-76-87 |
| 1987 | NASA Grant NAS8-36718 (Fluid Dynamics Study) |
| 2000 | NATO Expert Visit Grant PST.EV.976428 (Stability of floating ice) |
| 2001 | European Exchange Fellowship of the Royal Society of London HA/ESEP/JP (Stability of astrophysical flows) |
| 2002 | NATO Expert Visit Grant PST.EV.978462 (Stability of floating visco-elastic ice) |
| 2003 | Fellowship of the Royal Society of London (Stability of astrophysical flows) |
| 2005 | Fellowship of the Royal Society of London (Stability of shear flows having visco-elastic boundaries) |
| 2008 | Fellowship of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the UK for a scientific collaboration with Prof. M.S. Ruderman, Sheffield University, on “Absolute and convective instabilities in a saturated porous layer in the presence of inclined temperature gradient and vertical throughflow” |
| 2011 | Fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a collaboration with Prof. O. A. Cirpka, University of Tübingen, on “Absolute/convective instabilities dichotomy and emergence of convection in a porous layer under the influence of the Soret effect” |