Valentin Yuferev

Valentin S. Yuferev was born in Leningrad, Russian Federation, in 1937. He received the M.Sc. degree in mechanics from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, and the Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in physics and mathematics from the A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1967 and 1984, respectively. He is currently a Lead Researcher with the A. F. Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology, where he is also the Head of the Research Group of the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics. He is the author of more than 300 scientific publications. His current research interests include semiconductor device simulation, magnetohydrodynamics, heat and mass transfer in crystal growth, electromagnetic processes in railguns, fluid convection under microgravity, simulation of superfast avalanche switching in a GaAs bipolar transistor, pulsed all-electronic terahertz emitters, ferroelectric memory devices, and the numerical study of oxide crystal growth. His main research interest is the numerical and mathematical simulation of physical problems described by partial differential equations.