Gennady Yu. Kulikov graduated in Mathematics from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Moscow State University in 1988 (Diploma Cum Laude), and earned his Ph.D. (Russian degree "Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics") in computational mathematics from the Computer Engineering Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1994. He obtained his Habilitation (Russian degree "Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics") in 2002. G. Yu. Kulikov worked at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Ulyanovsk State University in Russia from 1993 till his relocation to South Africa in 2004, where he became a senior lecturer and, then, a reader at the University of the Witwatersrand. In 2009, he immigrated to Portugal and became a full-time researcher at Centro de Matemática Computacional e Estocástica (CEMAT), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
Kulikov's research interests are twofold. First, these focus on numerical methods for differential equations with special emphasis to global error estimation and control strategies. Second, his research topics include applications of such methods with global error control in fluid mechanics, nonlinear Kalman filtering and mathematical neuroscience. He has published widely in quality peer-reviewed journals (about 150 articles in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings) and gained 16 research grants. In addition, G. Yu. Kulikov has served as a referee for various national and international peer reviewed publications and as a reviewer for the Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). Over the years, he taught several undergraduate and graduate courses in computational mathematics, numerical methods for differential equations, computational linear algebra, prepared a number of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students, and supervised postdoctoral research projects in the area of his expertise. In recent years, G. Yu. Kulikov has been recognized as a TOP 2% cited researcher in the world according to Scopus' data.
Maria V. Kulikova graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Ulyanovsk State University in 2001, and earned her Ph.D. (degree "Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics") in applied mathematics in 2006. She worked (2007-2009) as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa till her relocation to Portugal in 2009, where she held a six-year full-time researcher position (2010-2015) granted by the Portuguese Research Fund (FCT). Since 2016 she has been an integrated research member at Centro de Matemática Computacional e Estocástica (CEMAT), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. In 2022, M. V. Kulikova became a full-time researcher at the mentioned institution.
Her main research interests include Kalman filtering and nonlinear Bayesian filtering methods, numerical stability and robust estimation with applications in target tracking, econometrics and mathematical neuroscience. She has published widely in national and international peer-reviewed journals and has received individual research grants from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), CEMAT (Portugal) as well as from the FCT (Portugal). She has served as a referee for various international peer reviewed journals and as a reviewer for the Mathematical Reviews of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). In addition, M. V. Kulikova has an experience to be a part of evaluation panels of the higher degrees committees and she is a research associate of the "African Collaboration for Quantitative Finance & Risk Research" (ACQuFRR). Dr. Kulikova has contributed to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in computational mathematics and numerical methods in finance. She has also supervised a number of M.Sc. students in the area of her expertise. In recent years, M. V. Kulikova has been recognized as a TOP 2% cited researcher in the world according to Scopus' data.
