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Professor Yury Stepanyants

Professor Yury Stepanyants
Name Yury Stepanyants
Position Professor (Mathematics)
Section School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing
Office D220
Location Toowoomba Campus
Phone +61 7 4631 5548
Extension 5548
Email
Qualifications PhD Marine Hydrophysical Institute

Biography

Yury Stepanyants graduated in 1973 with the MS Diploma from the Gorky State University (Russia) and started to work as an Engineer with the Research Radiophysical Institute. Then he proceeded his career with the Institute of Applied Physics (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) taking successively the positions of Junior, Senior and Leading Research Scientist from 1977 to 1997. In 1983 Yury obtained a PhD in Physical Oceanography, and in 1992 he obtained the highest scientific degree of Doctor of Sciences in Geophysics. In 1995 he was granted the title of Pro-fessor of Applied Mathematics in Russia, and in 2004 – the title of Professeur des Universités in Mécanique in France. After immigrating to Australia in 1998 Yury worked for 12 years as the Senior Research Scientist with the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisa-tion (Sydney). Since July 2009 he has been working at the University of Southern Queensland (Toowoomba) holding positions of Associate Professor and Full Professor (from 2014).

Research Career


  • Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified ( 010299 )
  • Classical Physics not elsewhere classified ( 020399 )
  • Oceanography not elsewhere classified ( 040599 )
  • Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified ( 490199 )
  • Classical Physics not elsewhere classified ( 510399 )
  • Oceanography not elsewhere classified ( 370899 )
  • Oceanography ( 370800 )
  • Classical Physics ( 510300 )
  • Applied Mathematics ( 490100 )

- nonlinear dynamics and general theory of nonlinear oscillations and waves;
- theoretical and computational fluid mechanics;
- physical oceanography and geophysical fluid dynamics;
- dynamics of bubbles, drops and solid particles in viscous fluids;
- instability of shear flows;
- groundwater flow and percolation processes in porous media;
- nonlinear waves and vortices in fluids including plasma;
- nonlinear waves in electric transmission lines and fibre optics.


2023 – present time Member of the Board of Studies at Chandigarh University, India
2022 – present time Fellow (elected) of the Australian Institute of Physics
2021 – present time Member of the Australian Institute of Physics
2021 Chief organiser of the 2-nd international Workshop on Mathematics of Sea Ice and Ice Sheets, USQ, Toowoomba, Australia.
2020 Co-organiser of the 1-st international Workshop on Mathematics of Sea Ice and Ice Sheets, University of Newcastle, Australia.
2020 – present time Member of the Australian Association of University Professors
2019 – present time Reviewer of ARC grants in Australia
2018 Chief organiser of the international Workshop on Nonlinear Waves, USQ, Toowoomba, Australia.
2017 – present time: Member of the Australian Mathematical Society
2016 – present time Associate Editor of the journal “Dynamics, Nonlinearity and Complexity”
2014 – present time: Member of the Australasian Fluid Mechanic Society
2014 – 2015 Editorial Board member (Regional Editor) of the international “Journal of Mathematics and Statistics”
2011 – present time: Editorial Board member of the CRC book series “Multiphysics Modelling”
2008 – 2016: Member of the American Mathematical Society
2008 – 2009: Foundation member of the Advisory Committee of the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics of the University of Wollongong
2001 – present time: Member of the Advisory Board of the international journal “Chaos” of the Amer. Inst. Phys.
1975 – present time: Reviewer in many international journals including J. Fluid Mech., Phys. of Fluids, Eur. J. Mech. B/Fluids, Natural Hazards and Earth System Sci., Nonlin. Processes in Geophys., Wave Motion
1973 – present time: Scientific supervisor of graduate, post-graduate, PhD and Year-in-Industry students


  • Centre for Astrophysics (CA)

Teaching


- ENM1600 Engineering Mathematics I;
- ENM2600 Engineering Mathematics II;
- MAT2100/2500 Calculus;
- MAT3103 Mathematical Modelling and Dynamical Systems;
- PHY3305 Quantum Mechanics.


50 Years

Supervision


  • Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified ( 010299 )
  • Classical Physics not elsewhere classified ( 020399 )
  • Oceanography not elsewhere classified ( 040599 )
  • Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified ( 490199 )
  • Classical Physics not elsewhere classified ( 510399 )
  • Oceanography not elsewhere classified ( 370899 )
  • Oceanography ( 370800 )
  • Classical Physics ( 510300 )
  • Applied Mathematics ( 490100 )