Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Metals Superplasticity Problems, Russian Academy of Science. Dr. Zhilyaev has published more than 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and his work has been cited over 6000 times. He is currently a visiting professor and research fellow at the Barcelona East School of Engineering, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and prior to that was a visiting research fellow in the faculty of engineering at University of Southampton.