Prof. Lev Ostrovsky received a Ph.D. degree and a Doctor of Science degree in the Soviet Union.
In 1977-1994 he was a Laboratory Head and Chief Scientist at the Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Acad., Sci. in Gorky (later Nizhny Novgorod). He also kept a part-time professorship at Gorky University.
Since 1994, he worked in the USA as a Senior Scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Then at NOAA Environmental Science Research Laboratory in Boulder. Now Lev Ostrovsky is affiliated with the Universities of Colorado and North Carolina as Adjunct Professor. He also had numerous visiting positions and fellowships at universities and laboratories in the USA, Britain, France, Australia, Norway, China, etc.
The scientific interests of Lev at different stages of his carrier included lasers and nonlinear optics, biophysics, nonlinear and biomedical acoustics, fluid dynamics and oceanography, and general nonlinear wave theory. He is the author and co-author of 4 books, numerous book chapters and student’s workbooks, over 300 papers, 11 Invention Certificates (Russian patents), and a registered Discovery. Under his supervision, 18 students obtained a Ph.D. degree; 12 of them were then awarded the Doctor of Science degree.
Among Lev’s awards are the USSR State Prize, the Mandelstam award of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Lagrange Award of this Conference. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a member of American and European Geophysical Unions, and the Russian Acoustical Society. He has been a Co-Editor of several professional journals, including Chaos, Acoustical Physics, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, and Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity.