He received his Bachelor's degree in Econometrics in 1999 before enrolling at CERGE-EI that same year. He completed his dissertation titled "Learning and Macroeconomic Dynamics" in 2008. During his PhD studies, he participated in two specialized external research visits to the World Bank Institute (2005) and to the University of Cambridge (2006). His research interests are macroeconomic theory and policy, dynamic macroeconomics, monetary economics, adaptive learning, econometrics, social security and general equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents. Recent publications (primarily in Russian) include "Asset Pricing under Adaptive Learning in a Three-Sector Production Economy" (with Vera Tolstova) and "Progressive Tax Reform under the Heterogeneous Agents Framework" (with Andrey Orlov), both in Vestnik NGU.