Mechanics of Heterogeneous Materials

University Halle-Wittenberg (2010-2011) and Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (2012-2015), Germany, as associate professor at Rzeszow University of Technology, Rzeszow (2015-2017), and as a full ´ professor at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland (2017-2021). In 2020, he joined the University of Cagliari, Italy. 




Mikhail Yu. Gutkin, Ph.D. (1990), Dr. Sci. Habil. (1998), is the Chief Researcher and Head of the Lab of Nanomaterials Mechanics and Theory of Defects at the Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia); Professor at the Institute of Advances Data Transfer Systems, ITMO University; Professor at the Higher School of Mechanics and Control Processes, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. Areas of expertise are the Theory of defects in solids; Physics and mechanics of photonics structures; Micromechanics of plastic deformation and fracture of nanostructural materials; Defect structures in growing hexagonal crystals; Description of defects using gradient and surface elasticity theory; Boundary problems of elasticity theory for defects in finite and elastically heterogeneous structures. Graduated from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (former Leningrad Polytechnic Institute called after M.I. Kalinin) in 1985.Post-graduate at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (1986-1990). Engineer, Junior Researcher, Researcher - Leader of research group at the Central Research Institute of Materials (St. Petersburg, 1985-1991). Researcher, Senior Researcher, Leading Researcher, Chief Researcher, Chief Researcher and Head of Lab (1991-to date) at the Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). Professor at the Chair of the Physics of the Strength and Plasticity of Materials, St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University (2005-2012) and at the Chair (Higher School since2