Dr. Oleg N. Kirillov

Oleg Kirillov is Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. He received his MSc in Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and earned his PhD in Theoretical Mechanics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. As a JSPS Fellow, he worked in the Department of Mathematics at Kyushu University, Japan. With a Humboldt Fellowship, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Hannover, the Technical University of Darmstadt, and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) in Germany.

Between 2010 and 2015, he worked in the Magnetohydrodynamics Division of the Institute of Fluid Dynamics of HZDR. In 2015–2016, he was based at the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is currently an Associate Editor for the journal Frontiers in Physics. Since 2018, he has been a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications: IMA.

Applied mathematics is his principal research interest, with an emphasis on the stability and dynamics of dissipative and non-conservative systems, dissipation-induced instabilities, and related spectral problems across a broad range of applications, including multi-body dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, acoustics, and crystal optics.

In collaboration with Paul Binding, Thomas Bridges, Igor Hoveijn, Yasuhide Fukumoto, and Dmitry Pelinovsky, he co-organised the very successful BIRS Research Workshop on Spectral Analysis, Stability and Bifurcation in Modern Nonlinear Physical Systems in 2012. A collection of selected articles from the workshop participants, edited by Oleg Kirillov and Dmitry Pelinovsky, was published by Wiley in the book Nonlinear Physical Systems: Spectral Analysis, Stability and Bifurcations (2014).

His monograph Nonconservative Stability Problems of Modern Physics was published by De Gruyter in the De Gruyter Studies in Mathematical Physics series in 2013, with a second edition released in 2021.

In April 2017, Davide Bigoni and Oleg Kirillov organised the CISM–AIMETA Advanced School Dynamic stability and bifurcation in nonconservative mechanics in Udine, Italy. The lecturers included Davide Bigoni (Italy), Olivier Doare (France), Oleg Kirillov (UK), Andrei Metrkine (Netherlands), Oliver O’Reilly (USA), and Andy Ruina (USA). The lectures were published as a volume in the CISM–Springer book series, Dynamic Stability and Bifurcation in Nonconservative Mechanics, edited by Davide Bigoni and Oleg Kirillov (2019)

Together with Olivier Doaré, Oleg Kirillov regularly organises the mini-symposium Nonconservative Stability Problems of Structural Mechanics and Fluid–Structure Interactions as part of the European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC): in 2019 (Bologna, Italy), 2022 (Galway, Ireland), and 2025 (Lyon, France).

Oleg Kirillov chaired the Organising Committee (H. Amini-Kafiabad, A. Baggaley, O. Croze, L. Currie, C. Guervilly, O. Kirillov (chair), D. Ratliff, C. Semprebon) of the highly successful 23rd International Couette-Taylor Workshop – ICTW2025, held at Durham University from 14–16 July 2025.

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