Research Interests


Chemical & Environmental Engineering

  • Theory of mass transfer in microfiltration/ultrafiltration
  • Theory of mass transfer in deep bed filtration
  • Theory of mass transfer in depth membrane filtration
  • Theory of coupled heat and mass transfer in fast polymerization processes
  • Electrokinetic mechanisms of adsorption and cake deposition on collectors and semipermeable membranes

Environmental Sustainability

  • Development of a systems approach to designing efficient closed environments for hot deserts using the space life science experience in bioregenerative life support systems for long-duration flights and orbital space stations

Neuroscience

  • Development of diagnostic methods for photosensitive epilepsy based on the analysis of magnetoencephalograms
  • Development of diagnostic methods for schizophrenia based on the analysis of encephalograms

Geophysics

  • Identification of earthquake precursors in the hydrogeochemical and geoacoustic data for the Kamchatka peninsula
  • Analysis of transitions between glacial and interglacial periods using the climate proxy data from Antarctic ice cores

Nanotechnology

  • Development of nanometrological methods for parameterizing nanosurfaces imaged by atomic force microscopy

Astrophysics

  • Analysis of stochastic variability in the dynamics of X-ray emission from black hole system GRS 1915+105