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I am currently a Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, in London, Canada. I'm also an Associate Faculty at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in Waterloo, Canada. Brief CV M.S.(Hons), The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia (1994), Thesis title: "Study of Electron Shell Polarization in Heavy Atom Fission in Droplet Model Framework" (in Russian) Thesis Advisor: Prof. L.N.Ivanov Ph.D., Cornell University, USA (1999), Dissertation title: "Statistical Mechanics of Cracks; Dualities in Supersymmetric Field Theories; Orientifolds of Type IIB Strings with Discrete B Flux" Dissertation Advisor: Prof. P.C.Argyres Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, USA (1999-2002) Research Fellow, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics , UofM, USA (2002-2003) Assistant Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada (2003-2007) Associate Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada (2007-2012) Professor, University of Western Ontario, Canada (2012) Associate Faculty, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Canada (2003-current)