Date and place of birth: September 5, 1945, Leningrad, USSR.

Academic degrees:

• 1969 – Engineer, diploma with excellence, V. I. Ulyanov (Lenin) Leningrad Electrical Engineering Institute (LEEI), Faculty of Radio Engineering.
• 1972 – Candidate of Science (PhD).
• 1976 – Senior researcher.
• 1985 – Doctor of Science.
• 1987 – Professor.

PhD and D.Sc. theses, places and years of presentations:

• "Acoustothermal effect, acoustoelectric effect and nonlinear absorption of sound in solids in the hydrodynamic region", LEEI, Leningrad, 1972.
• "Renormalization group, critical phenomena and phase diagrams of anisotropic systems", Ioffe Physical and Technical Institute, Leningrad, 1984 г.

Professional appointments:

Full-time positions:

• 1969-1972 – Aspirant (PhD student), LEEI, Department of Electron and Ion Technology (EIT).
• 1972-1974 – Junior researcher, LEEI, EIT.
• 1974-1979 – Senior researcher, LEEI, EIT.
• 1979-1986 – Docent (associate professor), LEEI, Department of Physical Electronics.
• 1986-2011 – Professor, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University (SPbETU, former LEEI), Department of Physical/Quantum Electronics.
• Since 2011 – Professor, Saint Petersburg State University (SPbSU), Department of Quantum Mechanics.

Part-time positions:

• 1970-1972 – Junior researcher, LEEI, EIT.
• 1997-2002 – Professor, SPbETU, Department of Physics.
• 2002-2011 – Professor, Saint Petersburg State University, Department of Statistical Physics.
• 2011-2014 – Professor, SPbETU, Department of Quantum Electronics.
• Since 2011 – Professor, Saint Petersburg Academic University–Center of Nanotechnology (SPAU).

Lecture courses:

• SPbSU – Quantum Mechanics, Solid State Physics, Collective Phenomena in Solids, Modern Problems of Quantum Physics.
• SPAU – Collective Phenomena in Condensed Matter, Quantum Information Processing.
• SPbETU/LEEI, courses delivered up to 2013 – Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Physics, Solid State Physics, Superconductivity, Phase Transitions, Physics of Nanosystems, and others.

Grants and Research Programs:

• DAAD Research Grant (FRG) – 1992.
• Grants of Ministry of Education (ME) and Ministry of Science of Russian Federation – 1993, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003.
• Grants of International Science Foundation (ISF) – 1993, 1994.
• ISF / ISSEP personal grants - 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
• Grants of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) – 2001, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015.
• Personal grants of ISSEP and Administration of Saint Petersburg (ASPb) – 2002, 2003.
• Federal Program “Integration of Science and Higher School”, Project A 150.
• State Scientific and Technology Program “Actual directions in Condensed Matter Physics”, Direction “Fullerenes and Atomic Clusters”, Project 94024.
• 20+ personal grants for young scientists supervised by Prof. Sokolov from ME, ISF, ISSEP, RFBR and ASPb.

Members of research group having received Candidate of Science (PhD) degree:

A. L. Korzhenevskii (1979), B. N. Shalaev (1982), I. O. Maier (1990), A. G. Selitskii (1990), S. A. Antonenko (1995), K. B. Varnashev (2002), D. V. Pakhnin (2006).

Research work abroad:

• 1992 – Kernforschungzentrum Karlsruhe, FRG, 6 weeks
• 2002 – Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1 month
• 2002 – Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 1 month
• 2003 – Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy, 1 month
• 2005 – Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2 months.

Honours and awards:

• “The Best Lecturer” – LEEI, rector decree on the base of anonymous student poll, 1987-1988.
• “Soros Professor” – ISF / ISSEP, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
• “Professor-2002”, “Professor-2003”, “Professor-2004” – ISSEP and Administration of Saint Petersburg.
• Medal “To the Memory of Tercentenary of Saint-Petersburg” – Decree of the President of Russian Federation, February 19, 2003.
• “Honorary Higher Professional Educationalist” – Ministry of Education of Russian Federation, 2006.