Gennady Yu. Kulikov

Senior Research Fellow
(Investigador Principal)

Biography

Gennady Yu. Kulikov (b. in 1965, Russian Federation) graduated from Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University in 1988 (Diploma Cum Laude), and earned his Ph.D. ("candidate degree") from Computer Engineering Center of Russian Academy of Sciences in 1994. He obtained his Habilitation (Russian "Dr. of Sciences") in 2002.He worked at Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Ulyanovsk State Univerity in Russia from 1993 till his relocation to South Africa in 2004, where he became a Senior Lecturer and, then, a Reader at University of the Witwatersrand (School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Science). In 2009, he immigrated to Portugal and became a full-time Researcher (initially, at the assistant level under 5-year Ciência 2008 contract and, then, at the senior level under 5-year FCT Investigador 2013 contract) at Centro de Matemática Computacional e Estocástica (CEMAT), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.

Kulikov?s research interests are twofold. First, these focus on numerical methods for differential equations with special emphasis to global error estimation and control. Second, these include applications of such methods with global error control to fluid mechanics and nonlinear Kalman filtering tasks. He has published widely in quality peer-reviewed journals and gained 16 research grants since completing his Ph.D. Also, G. Kulikov has been a co-author of 2 books (in Russian) and signed a publishing contract with Springer for issuing a book (in English) in 2021. In total, he has published 98 (28 in last 5 years) papers in peer-reviewed journals out of 116 articles in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has been the corresponding author of 93 peer-reviewed papers published independently on his Ph.D. supervisor. 9 (5 in the last 5 years) papers are in the most prestigious journals - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and Automatica - with the highest impact factor in the area of Math. Science & Engineering. G. Kulikov was the Principal Investigator (Supervisor) of R&D projects in numerical methods for differential equations from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of General and Professional Education of Russian Federation, the Danish Rectors' Conference. Presently, he is in the core team of FCT project PTDC/MAT-APL/31393/2017. G. Kulikov has chaired sessions at international conferences/workshops and served as a referee of peer-reviewed journals and as a reviewer for Mathematical Reviews of AMS. Over the years, he taught several undergraduate and graduate courses in computational mathematics, numerical methods for differential equations, computational linear algebra, and supervised successfully 14 M.Sc. and 3 Ph.D. students. He also supervised 1 post-doctoral research project. In 2020, G.Yu. Kulikov is included in the list of TOP 2% of the most cited researchers in the world according to Scopus' data in 2019.