Born on 30 May 1964 in Leningrad, USSR (=St. Petersburg, Russia). Graduated from Leningrad State University in 1986. PhD in Mathematics from St. Petersburg State University, 1991. Previous long-term positions: - Institute of Analysing Devices, Leningrad, USSR (1986-1989), researcher; - St. Petersburg University of Electrical Engineering, St. Petersburg, Russia, assistant professor (1989-1992) and then associate professor (1992-1998) in the Department of Mathematics; - Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain (1996-1997), visiting professor; - Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (1999-2001), visiting research fellow; - Steklov Institute of Mathematics, St. Petersburg Branch (POMI), St. Petersburg, Russia (1998-2007), senior researcher; - Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (2003-2006), Ramón y Cajal researcher. Prizes: Young Scientist Award in the area of Mathematics from Academia Europaea (for fSU researchers), 1998.
Research interests
Most of my research is devoted to spaces of analytic functions of a complex variable. Typically, the functions live on the unit disk and are well-behaved, in a sense, near/on its boundary, the unit circle. Various specific interpretations of "well-behaved", such as a natural growth restriction or some kind of boundary smoothness, give rise to important function spaces with nice properties, and I have studied some of these. I am also concerned with certain types of linear operators (e.g., the so-called Toeplitz and Hankel operators) acting on such spaces.
Selected research activities
* Editorial boards: Journal of Function Spaces, Proceedings of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
* Courses taught: Integral calculus in several variables (undergraduate), Universitat de Barcelona
* Supervision of a student's final degree project (TFG), defended at Universitat de Barcelona on 05/02/2024
* A number of invited and plenary talks at various conferences in Morocco, France, Spain and Russia (plus a piano concert that followed the conference in Marseille, France)
* Member of the Scientific Committee for the Conference on Ordered Spaces and their Applications (COSA 2024) in Kenitra, Morocco
* Served as referee for a number of mathematical journals, such as Annales Fennici Mathematici, American Journal of Mathematics, Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics, etc.
* Worked on a paper that appeared in Journal of Functional Analysis at the very beginning of 2025.