He completed a PhD in Geometry and Topology at Moscow State University in 2003 and was awarded the Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship in Combinatorial Knot Theory and the EPSRC grant Persistent Topological Structures in Noisy Images.His current interests are in Topological Data Analysis, which quantifies persistent structures hidden in unorganised data such as clouds of points. The application domains are Materials Science, Computer Vision and Climate.