The main goal of my research is to better understand the role of clouds in the Earth climate system through high-resolution cloud modeling. The foci of modeling activities include microphysics processes, cloud mixing and entrainment, life-cycle of boundary layer clouds, drizzle, turbulence, shallow and deep convection, interactions of clouds with radiation and with atmospheric aerosol.

I have been interested in clouds and numerical modeling of clouds ever since my undergraduate and graduate student years at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in late 1980s, and my subsequent employment at the Central Aerological Observatory in Moscow. There, I got my first very valuable experience in cloud modeling. I have developed a numerical model of aircraft dry-ice seeding of orographic clouds applying the explicit or bin microphysics to model processes in artificially seeded clouds. I also developed my first 3-D cloud-resolving model with bulk microphysics.