He was born in 1962 in Kharkiv, Ukraine and lives in Israel since 1997. His research is in the polymer science, surface science [1] and the superhydrophobicity. He is known for his pioneering research of wetting transitions,[2] superhydrophobic polymers, the effect of the plasma treatment on wetting properties, and analytical thermodynamic derivations of the Cassie and Wenzel equations using the variational calculus.[3]