FACULTY PROFILES DR. STANISLAV MOLCHANOV PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS Dr. Molchanov is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. He is the academic advisor for the International Laboratory at the National Research University at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. He is an author of four monographs and more than 350 papers in the leading mathematical journals and a world renowned expert in mathematical physics, random processes and their applications, quantum graphs, homogenization, localization, intermittency, fractals, population dynamics, and more. Prof. Molchanov is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Random Operators and Stochastic Equations, Journal of Spectral Theory, and Mathematical and Theoretical Physics. In the last five years alone, he has been supported by two grants from the NSF, one grant from the Russian Science Foundation and a research grant from Bielefeld University (Germany). He has supervised 17 Ph.D. students at UNC Charlotte. Over the span of his career, Dr. Molchanov has supervised more than 50 Ph.D. students as well as supervised 3 post Ph.D. scholars towards the Doctor of Sciences degree in Russia. Ph.D. and Dr. Sc. (Advanced Ph.D.) degree, Moscow State University Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
DR. MIKHAIL KLIBANOV PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS Dr. Klibanov has recently been recognized by the Stanford University Study as among the top 2% of the world’s most cited researchers. He was also awarded the Golden Medal for “Distinguished Impact in Mathematics” from Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia in 2017. He is an author of more than 175 papers in the leading mathematical journals and a world renowned expert in inverse problems for partial differential equations, iII-posed problems, mathematical physics including microwaves and nanoscience and more. He has made original and groundbreaking contributions in the area of coefficient inverse problems by introducing Carleman estimates for proofs of uniqueness theorems and constructions of globally convergent numerical methods for these problems. Dr. Klibanov’s research has been supported by the US Army Research Office for his work on applied inverse problems and has continuously received funding every three years since 2005 with a total of over $3.3 million. Dr. Klibanov supervised seven postdocs and five Ph.D. students. Doctor of Science in Mathematics, subject area “Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations,” Computing Center of The Siberian Branch of The Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk. Recognized by the Stanford University Study as Among the Top 2% of the World’s Most Cited Researchers
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