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Alexander V. Manzhirov, D.Sc., Ph.D., is a noted scientist
in the fields of mechanics and applied mathematics, integral
equations, and their applications.
After graduating with honors from the Department of
Mechanics and Mathematics of Rostov State University in
1979, Professor Manzhirov attended postgraduate courses
at Moscow Institute of Civil Engineering. He received his
Ph.D. in 1983 from Moscow Institute of Electronic Engi-
neering Industry and his D.Sc. in 1993 from the Institute
for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian (former USSR)
Academy of Sciences. Since 1983, Professor Manzhirov has
been working at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of
the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he is currently head
of the Laboratory for Modeling in Solid Mechanics.
Professor Manzhirov is also head of a branch of the Department of Applied Mathematics
at Bauman Moscow State Technical University, professor of mathematics at Moscow
State University of Engineering and Computer Science, vice-chairman of Mathematics
and Mechanics Expert Council of the Higher Certification Committee of the Russian
Federation, executive secretary of Solid Mechanics Scientific Council of the Russian
Academy of Sciences, and an expert in mathematics, mechanics, and computer science
of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. He is a member of the Russian National
Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the European Mechanics Society
(EUROMECH), and a member of the editorial board of the journal Mechanics of Solids
and the international scientific-educational Website EqWorld—The World of Mathematical
Equations (http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru).
Professor Manzhirov has made important contributions to new mathematical methods
for solving problems in the fields of integral equations and their applications, mechanics of
growing solids, contact mechanics, tribology, viscoelasticity, and creep theory. He is the au-
thor of ten books (including Contact Problems in Mechanics of Growing Solids [in Russian],
Nauka, Moscow, 1991; Handbook of Integral Equations, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1998;
Handbuch der Integralgleichungen: Exacte L¨ osungen, Spektrum Akad. Verlag, Heidelberg,
1999; Contact Problems in the Theory of Creep [in Russian], National Academy of Sciences
of Armenia, Erevan, 1999), more than 70 research papers, and two patents.
Professor Manzhirov is a winner of the First Competition of the Science Support
Foundation 2001, Moscow.
Address: Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Vernadsky Ave. 101 Bldg 1, 119526 Moscow, Russia
Home page: http://eqworld.ipmnet.ru/en/board/manzhirov.htm