Rate My Professor Mikhail Kruglyakov

Mikhail Kruglyakov is a Research Fellow in the Department of Physics within the Division of Sciences at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He belongs to the Space Physics Group and works under the supervision of Professor Craig Rodger. Kruglyakov holds a PhD in Mathematics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he also pursued studies in Mathematics and Computer Science from 2002 to 2007 and Computational Mathematics from 2007 to 2011. Before joining the University of Otago, he was a Senior Researcher at the Geoelectromagnetic Research Centre of the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, from June 2018 to August 2021. Additionally, he served as an academic guest at the Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, from September 2018 to March 2020, and at the Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, in October-November 2017. His career has been marked by expertise in high-performance computing and numerical methods applied to geophysics.

Kruglyakov's research specializes in scientific computing, simulation and modeling, parallel programming, electromagnetics, and applied geophysics. He develops advanced algorithms for solving forward and inverse electromagnetic problems, particularly in magnetotellurics and modeling geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) induced by space weather events. His work focuses on real-time prediction and 3D modeling of geoelectric fields, with applications to New Zealand's power grids and southern South Island resistivity structures. Key publications include "Multi-Site Transfer Function Approach for Real-Time Prediction of the Geoelectric Field" (Space Weather, 2023), "Three-Dimensional Modeling of the Ground Electric Field in New Zealand" (Space Weather, 2023), "Modelling Tippers on a Sphere" (Geophysical Journal International, 2022), "Real-Time 3-D Modeling of the Ground Electric Field Due to Space Weather: A Concept and Its Validation" (Space Weather, 2022), and "A Proper Use of the Adjacent Land-Based Observatory Data for Ocean GIC Studies" (Space Weather, 2022). With 82 publications and over 497 citations, his contributions advance understanding of Earth's conductivity structures and space weather impacts. He has shared his findings at international venues, including talks on GIC simulations in New Zealand power grids at conferences in Germany and the European Space Weather Week in Sweden.