Michael Levitin
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Personal
Born 18 June 1963 in Moscow
Education
1980-1986 Undergraduate course [=BSc + MSc] at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Faculty of Applied Mathematics
1989 Candidate of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics) [=Ph.D.]. Degree awarded by Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Thesis Vibrations of a thin elastic shell filled with a viscous compressible fluid (asymptotic analysis). Supervisors: V Lidskii, D Vassiliev.
Employment
2010- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Reading, Professor of Applied Mathematics
2007-2010 Cardiff School of Mathematics, Cardiff University, and WIMCS, Professor of Analysis
1993-2007 Department of Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University, postdoc, lecturer, reader; from 2006 also at Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences
1992-1993 University of Sussex, visiting researcher
1986-1992 Vniimontazhspetsstroi, Moscow, researcher; Institute for Problems in Mechanics, USSR Academy of Sciences, researcher (part-time)