Education:

PhD: 2000 St.Petersburg State University / Steklov Institute, Russia
Supervisor: Ivan Panin
Title: On Grothendieck’s conjecture about principal homogeneous spaces for some classical algebraic groups

Habilitation: 2009 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Mentor: Fabien Morel
Title: Motives and algebraic cycles on projective homogeneous varieties

Research Interests: Algebraic Geometry: algebraic groups, torsors, homogeneous spaces, cohomology theories, algebraic cycles, motives

Publications:

  • Peer-reviewed journals: 47
    General: Inventiones Math., Advances Math., J. Reine und Angew. Math., Ann. Sci Ecole Norm. Sup., Compositio Math., Math. Annalen, Selecta Math., J. Inst. Math. Jussieu, Math. Res. Letters., Internat. Math. Res. Notices., Documenta Math., Canadian J. Math., Math. Zeitschrift, Manuscripta Math., London Math. Bull., Canadian Math. Bull., St.Petersburg J. Math., J. Ramanujan Math. Soc., Arkiv för Matematik, J. Math. Sciences, New-York J. Math.
    Specialized: Algebra & Number Theory, Transf. Groups, J. Algebra, K-theory J., J Pure Appl. Algebra, Algebras and Repr. Theory. 
  • Refereed conference proceedings/book chapters: 4
  • Abstracts and technical reports: 15

Professional Experience:

Committees:

Grants, Awards:

  • 2010-2014, 2015-2021, 2022-2026 NSERC Discovery Grant
  • 2015 Faculty of Science Excellence in Research Award ( UOttawa
  • 2011-2016 Early Researcher Award (announcements: UOttawaOntario gov.)
  • 2010-2012 NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (announcements: UOttawaNSERC)
  • 2007-2009 DFG individual research grant (co-PI)
  • 2004-2005 Alexander von Humboldt fellowship, AvH Stiftung, Germany
  • 2001-2003 European postdoctoral fellowship, IHES, France

Supervision: 15 Postdocs (incl. 8 Fields Postdoctoral Fellows), 14 Graduate students

Conferences/workshops organized: 29 (incl. 15 Fields workshops and 1 Fields thematic program)

Short term research visits:

  • University of Besancon, France (05-08/1998),
  • University of Bielefeld, Germany (2000-2001),
  • University of Münster, Germany (09-12/2004),
  • University of Bielefeld, Germany (08/2007, 03/2008, 08/2008),
  • Universite Paris 13, France (06/2010),
  • I.H.E.S. France (08/2011),
  • Fields Institute, Toronto (04-06/2013),
  • University of Mainz, Germany (12/2014),
  • I.H.E.S. France (02-04/2016),
  • Universite Paris 13, France (05/2016)
  • St.Petersburg University, Russia (07/2016)
  • University of Munich (LMU), Germany (07/2017)
  • University of Koln, Germany (07/2018)
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy (12/2019, 02/2024)