Personal Data
Name:                    Boris Rubinstein
Position:                 Research Advisor
Work address:        Stowers Institute for Medical Research
                               1000 E. 50th St., Kansas City, MO 64110, USA
                               tel.: 816-926-4403, fax: 816-926-4674
                               e-mail:  bru@stowers.org
                               website: http://research.stowers.org/bru/

Academic Degrees
Ph.D., 1989           Nonlinear Optics
                              Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, USSR
M.Sc., 1982          Experimental Nuclear Physics
                             Ural Technical University, Sverdlovsk, USSR

Research Activities and Interests
Biophysics: cell motility, microtubule physics, contractility, cell polarization, network dynamics, aneuploidy.
Number theory:  theory of integer partitions.
Nonlinear optics: pattern formation, chaotic dynamics, statistical theory, optical multistability.
Hydrodynamics: interfacial instabilities, contact line theory, meniscus theory.
Symbolic algebra software: analytical solution of partial differential equations,
bifurcation theory, weakly nonlinear analysis of dynamical and distributed systems.

Programming Skills
Finite element method.
Development of symbolic and numerical algorithms for ordinary and partial differential equations.
Development of numerical algorithms for moving boundaries problems.
UNIX script programming.
Functional programming.
Programming Languages: C, Fortran, Mathematica, Femlab, Matlab, Unix Bourne Script.
Operating systems: Unix, Windows, Mac.

Employment
2007 - now      Research Advisor, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
                        Kansas City, MO, USA
2002 - 2007     Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Davis,
                        Davis, CA, USA
2000 - 2002     Postdoctoral Research Fellow,  Northwestern University
                        Evanston, IL, USA
1996 - 2000     Research Engineer, Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
                        Technion, Haifa, Israel
1993 - 1996     General Manager, Kernel Knowledge, Ltd.
                        Technion City, Haifa, Israel
1991 - 1993     Post Doctorate Fellow,
                        Department of Chemical Engineering,
                        Technion, Haifa, Israel
1985 - 1991     Researcher, Metal Physics Institute
                        Academy of Sciences of the USSR,
                        Sverdlovsk, USSR
1982 - 1985     Doctorate Fellow, Ural Technical University
                        Sverdlovsk, USSR

Teaching Experience
Teaching Assistant                 Ural Technical University, Sverdlovsk, USSR
                                               October 1982 -- June 1984
                                               Undergraduate courses in mathematics.
Lecturer                                 Ural Technical University, Sverdlovsk, USSR
                                               October 1983 -- June 1985
                                               Teaching of mathematics in pre-university courses.
Lecturer                                 Technion, Haifa, Israel
                                               March 1999 -- January 2000
                                              Mathematica  programming in engineering sciences.

Awards and Honors
1991 - 1993                           Lady Davis Posrdoctoral Fellowship, Technion, Israel.