• Ph.D.: 1992, Pulkovo Observatory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
• M.S. : 1983, Leningrad State University, Leningrad, USSR (astronomer)

Employment

• since 08/05       : Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC, USA
• 08/04 - 06/05   : Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
  
• 10/02 - 04/04   : Research Assistant Professor of Astronomy, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
• 05/99 - 10/02   : Post-doctoral research associate, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
• 06/98 - 05/99   : Senior research associate, Pulkovo Observatory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
• 05/97 - 05/98   : Post-doctoral research associate, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA
• 08/94 - 05/97   : Senior research associate, Pulkovo Observatory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
• 06/87 - 05/93   : Junior research associate, Pulkovo Observatory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
• 08/83 - 06/87   : Engineer, Pulkovo Observatory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Long-Term Visiting

06/05 - 07/05   : Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany

05/04 - 08/04   : Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany

04/02                 : Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany

05/96 - 07/96  : Visiting scientist, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA

Grants and Contracts

• Small Research grant of the American Astronomical Society ``Multicolor photometry of early-type stars with circumstellar envelopes'', 2001
• Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) cooperative grant No. 6863 ``Sleuthing the critical stages of stellar evolution'', 2000-2001
• NASA LTSA grant  NAG5-8054 ``Circumstellar Environments of High- and Intermediate-Mass Stars: From the Pre-main-sequence to LBV's'', 1999-2004
• Grant of the Russian Science Ministry ``Variability of young and massive stars'', 1998
• NASA Contract NAS5-26777 ``Continuation of Analysis of WUPPE Data'', 1997 - 1998
• Grant for a project on Circumstellar surroundings of the intermediate- and high-mass young stars, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Kentucky, 1996
• Travel grant for the trip to the University of Kentucky, International Astronomical Union, Commission 38, 1996
• Grant for Statistical determination of early-type stars on pre-main-sequence and later stages of evolution, European Southern Observatory, 1995
• Grant for Photometric, polarimetric, and spectral observations and investigations of peculiar early-type stars, The International Science Foundation, 1994

Membership in Astronomical Societies

• Euro-Asian Astronomical Society (since 1990, founding member)
• American Astronomical Society  (since 1997)

Reseach Projects

• Expanding the Family of Dust-Forming Stars, 2004 - pres., P.I.
• Circumstellar Environments of High- and Intermediate-Mass Stars: From the Pre-main-sequence to LBV's, 1999-2004, Co-Investigator
• Spectropolarimetric and spectroscopic studies of circumstellar geometries of early-type stars, 1997-1998, Co-Investigator
• Dust emission from early- and late-type stars: photometric and spectroscopic observations and comprehensive modeling, 1996-present, Co-Investigator
• Spectroscopy of faint newly recognized pre-main-sequence early-type star candidates, 1996-1999, (using observations at the 6-meter telescope of the Russian Academy of Sciences), P.I.
• Circumstellar envelopes of high-mass young stars: high-resolution spectroscopy, 1995-1998, (using observations at the 6-meter telescope of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Co-Investigator
• Circumstellar envelopes of Herbig Ae/Be stars: medium-resolution spectroscopy, 1989-1991, (using observations at the 6-meter telescope of the Russian Academy of Sciences), P.I.
• Photometric behavior of classical Novae near maximum brightness, 1985-1987, P.I.
• Photometric, polarimetric, and spectroscopic studies of early-type emission-line stars: photometry and polarimetry in the range 0.3-2.2 microns, 1984-1999,  (Co-Investigator, P.I. since 1992)

External Services

• Co-Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the International Conference "Star with the B[e] Phenomenon", the Netherlands, July 2005 (http://www.astro.uu.nl/~kraus/b-e-conf/)
• NASA Expert Panel (LTSA, ADP) - 2004
• Co-manager of a Web-page Standard Objects for Astronomy (SOFA), since 2001
• Member of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the International Workshop on B[e] stars (IAP, Paris, June 1997)
• Member of the review panel for Russian Foundation for Basic Research - 1996, 1998
• Reviewer for Astronomy & Astrophysics, since 1998

Publications

Last updated 2005 June 30