Curriculum vitae

Stellar feedback and the multi-phase ISM – how massive stars shape, ionize and enrich gas around them, from H II regions and individual stars to kpc-scale complexes and superbubbles

Ionized gas as a diagnostic tool – characterizing chemical abundances, ionization conditions, electron temperature and gas kinematics from IFU spectroscopy

Dwarf and low-metallicity environments – how star formation and stellar feedback proceed in metal-poor environments and gas-rich systems

Dust and PAHs in star-forming regions – how ionizing radiation and metallicity regulate PAH destruction and survival; how metals deplete onto dust in the ISM

Gas accretion onto galaxies – how large-scale gas flows regulate star formation in galaxies

Methods and instruments – IFU and scanning Fabry–Pérot techniques, optical and mid-IR imaging, photoionization modelling, data reduction pipelines

136 refereed publications (159 in total), of which 90 appeared in the last five years. 4 238 citations, h-index 36 (SciX / NASA ADS, November 2026).

Of the refereed papers, 18 are mine as first or corresponding author, 6 are led by students under my supervision, and on 44 further papers I am among the lead contributors – within the first 3 authors, or in the lead author team of a large collaboration. Full list · PDF

DFG (German Research Foundation) individual research grant 541068876

RSCF (Russian Science Foundation) grant for young researchers 19-72-00149

RFBR (Russian Foundation for Basic Research) grant for junior group leaders 18-32-20120

RFBR grant for initiative projects 18-02-00976

“Basis” Foundation PostDoc fellowship grant 19-1-3-53-1

RFBR grant for young researchers 12-02-31356

I. M. Kopylov Award for observational work with the Russian 6-m BTA telescope

Prizes of the young-researcher competitions of Lomonosov Moscow State University for series of publications (1st prize 2013 and 2019, 2nd prize 2020)

Visitor grants: ESO SSDF, one month at ESO Santiago (PI: E. Congiu); Astro3D, one week at ICRAR/UWA (PI: B. Groves); Serbian Academy of Sciences, two weeks at Belgrade University (PI: D. Ilić)

• PI – Baryon cycle in the nearest late-type polar-ring galaxy NGC 660 (13 h, P117, 2026)
• PI – Constraining ISM mixing and weighing molecular gas by mapping dwarf galaxy abundances (8 h, P111, 2023)
• PI – Quantifying feedback from young star clusters in low-mass galaxies (10 h, P110, 2022/23)

• deputy PI – Metal-poor and very young galaxies in the Local Universe (17 h, P113, 2024; PI: E. Egorova)

• co-PI – Origin of supersonic motions and chemical abundance in H II regions of the galaxy Sextans B (6 h, 2019; PI: A. Kniazev)

• PI – Diffuse ionized gas in galaxies (multi-year programme, 2–3 nights per period, 2020–2023)
• co-PI – Supernovae and stellar winds in nearby galaxies (multi-year large programme, 2–4 nights per period, 2008–2023, co-I in 2008–2017; PI: T. Lozinskaya)

• PI – Ionized gas in nearby galaxies (NBI imager and TDS, 2017–2020)

Cycle 2: “A JWST Census of the Local Galaxy Population” (155 h, PI: A. Leroy) and “Resolving H II Regions and ISM Structure Across the Milky Way Analog NGC 253” (22 h, PI: A. Leroy)

Cycle 31: 169 orbits (PHANGS Hα Treasury, PI: D. Thilker) and 26 orbits (WR stars as He II ionizing sources, PI: A. Sander)

Cycle 12 Large Programme “The 10 pc Survey of Molecular Clouds and Stellar Feedback” (PI: A. Leroy)

VLT/MUSE (P108–P111, four programmes totalling > 120 h), VLT/FLAMES and VLT/FORS2; Keck/KCWI (4 nights), NTT/EFOSC2, WHT/WEAVE, WHT/GHaFaS, VLA DDT, AstroSat/UVIT

Advisor or co-advisor of 4 BSc and 5 MSc theses; all students continued to PhD positions, two of them currently have postdoc positions

Co-advisor of MSc student Mar Canal i Saguer (Heidelberg University; main advisor K. Kreckel)

Advisor of the BSc and MSc theses of Ivan Gerasimov, Konstantin Vasiliev and Anastasiya Yarovova (Moscow State University)

Co-advisor of Grigory Smirnov-Pinchukov (BSc, MSc; main advisor T. Lozinskaya)

Hands-on tutorials at the IMPRS Summer School “Unraveling Galaxy Evolution with JWST” (Heidelberg, Germany)

Occasional seminars on nebular diagnostics as part of the course “Physics of galaxies” (Moscow State University), and lectures on “3D spectroscopy of ionized gas” for students at summer practice (SAI MSU observatory)

18 papers refereed for A&A, ApJ, MNRAS, Galaxies, Open Astronomy, Astrophysical Bulletin, Astronomy Reports, Astronomy Letters

• JWST, Cycle 5 – member of the “Gas, Dust and ISM” external panel
• HST, Cycles 32 and 33 – member of the “Galactic” external panel
• ESO – DPR reviewer, multiple periods

• ORAU, NASA Postdoctoral program, 2025 – primary reviewer, 1 proposal

• EAS-2025, SS-30 “A multi-scale perspective on stellar feedback in the context of galaxy evolution” (Cork, Ireland) – chair, SOC member
• EAS-2022, SS-16 “Connecting stellar sources and the ionised ISM” (Valencia, Spain) – co-chair, SOC member
• SDSS-V/LVM team meetings – SOC member (La Serena, Chile, 2025), LOC member (Heidelberg, Germany, 2022)

• SDSS-V/LVM – remote observer, half a night every one to two weeks, 2023–2025
• 2.5-m CMO (SAI MSU) – observer with the NBI imager and the MaNGaL tunable-filter imager, 20–30 nights per year, 2017–2020
• 6-m BTA (SAO RAS) – occasional assisting and visiting observer with SCORPIO and SCORPIO-2 in long-slit, IFU, scanning Fabry–Pérot and narrow-band imaging modes

57 conference and seminar/colloquium talks, 7 invited; over the last three years 25 conference and seminar talks, 5 of them invited.

• “Summary of SDSS-V LVM” – SDSS-V Collaboration meeting, Leuven, 2026
• “A multi-scale and multi-wavelength perspective on stellar feedback in nearby galaxies” – Decoding Galactic Evolution through the Interplay of the Multi-Phase ISM, Nagoya, 2025
• “SDSS-V LVM: IFU spectroscopy of the MW and the Magellanic Clouds at <10 pc resolution” – Galaxy Hour seminar, Ohio State University, 2025
• “Stellar feedback shaping the ionized ISM in nearby galaxies” – colloquium, University of Cologne, 2023
• “Kinematics of the ionized gas as a diagnostic of the energy balance between the ISM and massive stars” – 14th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics, 2023

Optical 3D spectroscopy: VLT/MUSE, SDSS-V/LVM, BTA/SCORPIO-2 (IFU, Fabry–Pérot), BTA/MPFS, WHT/GHaFaS, Keck/KCWI; long-slit spectroscopy: SALT, GTC, Subaru, BTA and CMO/TDS; imaging: JWST, HST, Spitzer, Herschel and various optical instruments

Python and IDL (expert). Expertise in specific codes includes Cloudy/pyCloudy, pyNeb, Starburst99, ppxf, 3D-Barolo, astrodendro, esorex/pymusepipe, JWST pipeline.

• lvmdatasimulator – simulator of SDSS-V/LVM data (github.com/sdss/lvmdatasimulator)
• lvmqa – QA pipeline for the SDSS-V/LVM data (github.com/sdss/lvmqa; currently internal)
• pjpipe – PHANGS-JWST pipeline, co-developer (github.com/PhangsTeam/pjpipe)
• ifured, longred, kinescope – reduction and analysis pipelines for BTA and SAI MSU spectroscopy (github.com/oegorov)
• Contributions to the SDSS-V LVM data-reduction and data-analysis pipelines; pymusepipe and PHANGS-MUSE DAP pipelines

• Science advisor for the Fiske Planetarium film “SDSS-V: Mapping the Hidden Universe”
• Among the lead authors of the PHANGS-JWST data release, covered by a NASA press release, institutional websites and national television
• Five further papers accompanied by press releases (Heidelberg University, SAO RAS, popular-science media)
• Public lecture at the science festival of Moscow State University (2019); public lectures as a guide at the Moscow Planetarium (part-time, 2011–2016)