(n. 1948) Marie Curie Professor, CFTC,Universidade de Lisboa, Complexo Interdisciplinar; Diploma in Physics (with Honours), Tashkent State University (Uzbekistan, USSR), 1969; Ph. D. in Theoretical Physics, Tashkent Institute of Nuclear Physics(Uzbekistan, USSR), 1975; Doctors of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics, Kiev Institute of Theoretical Physics, 1985(Ukraine,USSR).
Theory of nonlinear waves, optical solitons, solitons in random media,condensed matter physics, nonlinear matter waves.