A high school specializing in mathematics and physics
1990: admitted to the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), at the department of General and Applied Physics.
1994: admitted to the graduate program in physics at UC Berkeley.
- After trying out a few things (I briefly worked in a group doing observational astronomy and later a laser cooling lab), I ended in theoretical particle physics. I was very fortunate to have been chosen by Hitoshi Murayama to be one of his first two students (together with André de Gouvêa, now at Northwestern).
Received a Master's degree in physics in December 1996, a Ph.D. in physics in May 2000.
- The title of Ph.D. dissertation: Towards the resolution of the solar neutrino problem.
2000: started a 3-year postdoctoral appointment at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, at the School of Natural Sciences.
In October 2002: left for Los Alamos, for a position of a Feynman Fellow in the T-8 group of the LANL Theoretical division.
Promoted to a LANL Staff Scientist position in November 2005.