curriculum vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE
1. Personal Data
Name: Mikhail Benilov
Date and place of birth: Sept 15, 1951, Moscow, USSR
Marital status: married, with one son
Nationality: Russian and Portuguese
Place of work: Universidade da Madeira, Departamento de Física
Address: Largo do Município, 9000 Funchal, Portugal
Telephone: +351 291 705256
Fax: +351 291 705269
Homepage: http://fisica.uma.pt
E-mail: [email protected]
2. Education and Academic Degrees
June 1968 - graduated from the physical-mathematical school in Moscow
June 1974 - graduated from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, with Diploma with Honours
Sep. 1977 - completed postgraduate courses at the above Institute and at the Institute for Mechanics of
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Nov. 1978 - degree of Candidate of Physical-Mathematical Sciences (Ph.D.) from Moscow Institute for
Physics and Technology
June 1990 - degree of Doctor of Physical-Mathematical Sciences (this is an academic degree superior to
Ph.D. which is similar, e.g., to Habilitation in Germany or to Doutor Agregado in Portugal) from the Institute
for High Temperatures of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow, USSR)
Oct. 1997 - degree of Doutor Agregado from Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
(Lisbon, Portugal)
3. Professional Career
1977/1990
1990/1993
1993/
Institute for High Temperatures of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow: Senior
Engineer, Junior Scientist, Senior Scientist, Leading Scientist
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany: Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation, Research Scientist
Universidade da Madeira, Portugal: Invited Full Professor, Full Professor
4. Scientific Activity
Publications: 108 refereed papers, one review monograph (the list of publications is attached).
The major part of scientific results concerns different aspects of physics of current transfer to
electrodes and electrostatic probes in low-temperature plasmas. The most important result of the last years
is the theory of the cathodic part of high-pressure arc discharges. The theory is based on a combination of
the methods of the gas discharge physics and of the theory of nonlinear dissipative structures (in particular,
of the bifurcation theory). The results obtained are used currently by groups that work in the area of
modelling of the high-pressure arc discharges, in academia and in the industry, in Europe, U.S.A., Canada,
and Japan.
Research projects with national, international, and industrial funding
Supervised 5 Ph. D. theses.
5. Scientific Societies and Editorial Boards
Institute of Physics (Fellow), IEEE (Senior Member), Sociedade Portuguesa de Física. Member of the Editorial
Board of Plasma Sources. Science and Technology.
6. Language Abilities
Russian (first language), English (excellent), Portuguese (excellent), German (good).
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