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DATE OF BIRTH: January 8, 1937
CITIZENSHIP: U.S. citizen, inborn Russia's citizen
EDUCATION:
M.S. and B.S. from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Aerospace and Engineering Physics) 1954-1960
PhD from Moscow State University (Applied Mechanics) 1962
Sc.D. from USSR Academy of Sciences (Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Mechanics) 1964
EMPLOYMENT:
1963-1969 Senior
Scientist, Institute of Mechanics, USSR Academy of Sciences
1969-1978 Professor
of Applied Mathematics, Moscow Mining Institute
1978-1987 Senior
Scientist, Moscow Research Institute of Drilling Technology
1987-1990 Head
of Mathematical Modeling Laboratory, Pacific Oceanology
Institute, USSR
Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok
1990-1991 Distinguished
Research Associate in Solid Mechanics, Harvard University
1991-1998 Professor
of Mechanical Engineering, Florida International University
Part time employment:
Fall Term 1965-66 Visiting
Professor, Moscow Power Technology Institute
Fall Term 1966-67 Visiting
Professor, Baku State University
1967-1972 Lecturing
Professor, Moscow State University
1978-1980 Project
Director, Special Mathematical Modeling Board at Azerbaijan
Academy
of Sciences, Baku
1967-1972 Scientific
Advisor, Spacecraft Technology Research Institute, Moscow
Summer 1997 Distinguished
Summer Faculty Fellow, Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft
Division,
Lakehurst, NJ
Summer 1998 Distinguished
Summer Faculty Fellow, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington,
D.C.
HONORARY MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS:
1976 Honorary Life Member, New York Academy of Sciences
1989 Honorary Fellow, International Congress on Fracture
1972 Board of Editors, Journal of Engineering Fracture Mechanics
1973 Member of Advisory Board, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
1997 Board of Editors, International Applied Mechanics
AWARDS and GRANTS:
Lenin Komsomol Prize 1971 (State Award)
NSF Grant # MSS 9224936 for "Mechanics of Quantum Fracture" (1992-93), $33,200.
NASA Grant # 59204 for "Theory of the Motion of Meteor Particles in Solid Materials" (1992-95), $311,551. Two investigators.
AFOSR Grant # 59107 for "Residual and Thermal Stresses in Thin Films and Interconnects" (1994-96), $43,973.
U.S. ARO Strategic Defense Command Grant for "Structural Improvement of the Ground-Based Radar Systems Using Advanced Materials" (1994-97), $1,441,411. Five investigators.
PUBLICATIONS AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES:
Dr. Cherepanov has authored eleven books and more than 300 peer-refereed research papers published in 18 Russian and 12 American journals. Under the supervision of Dr. Cherepanov, 21 postgraduates have received Ph.D.'s, and 6 postdoctoral Sc.D.'s.
In FIU Dr. Cherepanov has delivered 16 different courses on mechanics, materials, engineering and applied mathematics for graduate and undergraduate students. About 130 BSs, near 150 MSs and 4 Ph.Ds have been educated on these courses.
In more details, his biography has in recent years, been elucidated in the following reference books:
* Marquis Who's Who in the World, 11th and other Editions
* Marquis Who's Who in America, 47th Edition
* Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1st and other Editions
* Marquis Who's Who in the East, several Editions
* Marquis Who's Who in the South and Southwest, several Editions
* Men of Achievement, 16th Edition. International Biographical Center, Cambridge, U.K.
* Men and Women of Distinction. International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, U.K.
* International Man of the Year 1992/93. International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, U.K.
* American Men & Women of Science. A Reed Reference Publishing Co.
* The International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, Fifth Edition. American Biographical Institute
* Five Hundred Leaders of Influence. American Biographical Institute
* 2000 Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century. International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, U.K. and other Editions.
PROFESSIONAL HONORS during his work in FIU:
- Southwest Mechanics Lecture series in Southwest Research Institute, Rice University, University of Houston, Texas A&M University and Tulane University (October 1991)
- Honor lecture at the 2nd Congress on Metallurgy in Mexico City (November, 1992)
- Invited paper at the 1993 ASME Winter Annual Meeting in New Orleans (November, 1993)
- Honor lecture series in University of Durban in South Africa (June, 1994)
- Invited paper at the 12th U.S. Congress of Applied Mechanics in Seattle (July, 1994)
- Invited paper at the IUTAM Symposium on Scale Effects (Turin, Italy, October, 1994)
- Invited papers at World Congress on Fracture (1993, Lviv, Ukraine; 1997, Sydney, Australia)
- Honor lecture at European Congress on Fracture (Paris, France, September 1996, not delivered) and so on.
CITATION INDEX: more than 2,000 only in English scientific literature.
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