Prof. Aslan Kasimov is the director of the Master’s program on Applied Computational Mechanics and a member of the Skoltech Project Center for Energy Transition.

His research is in the area of theoretical and computational fluid dynamics, in particular analysis of the dynamics of detonation waves and other reacting flows.

Prof. Kasimov holds a Ph.D. degree in Theoretical  and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, received in 2004. His undergraduate education was received from Moscow Engineering-Physics Institute (MEPhI), which he graduated in 1993 with a degree in chemical physics. Prior to joining Skoltech, Prof. Kasimov was a lecturer and instructor in applied mathematics at the Department of Mathematics of MIT (2005-2009), served as a founding faculty member at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST, 2009-2016), and held a researcher position in the Tamm Theoretical Physics Department at the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He was a recipient of a US AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2007 for his work on detonation theory and of a number of graduate awards at the University of Illinois. He has substantial teaching and advising experience at both graduate and undergraduate levels at MIT, KAUST, and Skoltech. At KAUST, he helped establish a vigorous graduate program in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, where he created and taught original courses on applied partial differential equations, stability and bifurcation theory, asymptotic analysis, and theoretical fluid dynamics. Many graduates of the program continued as doctoral students or postdocs at various universities around the world including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Oxford University, MIT.