Education:

Ph.D  Physics - Dartmouth College 2001

M. Sc. Physics - McMaster University, Canada  1995

M. Sc. (Honors)  Mathematics and Physics - Peoples' Friendship University, Russia 1987
 

Professional Activities and Interests:

International Society for General Relativity and Gravitation (Lifetime Member)

American Physical Society (Member)

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society (Member)

Research Interests:

• The generation and physical interpretation of exact solutions of the Einstein’s field equations;
• The application of General Relativity to the study of the structure and evolution of compact objects: white dwarfs, neutron stars, strange stars and black holes;
• The role of scalar fields in the early universe and the formation of boson stars,
• The physics of coupled non-linear oscillating systems.

Recent Publications:

Anisotropic Stars: Radial Perturbations GRG 35, 1435-1457 (2003)

Anisotropic Stars: Exact Solutions, GRG, 34, 11, 1793-1818 (2002)