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Educated at Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, and Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Snezhana I. Abarzhi held her first appointments at Landau Institute and High Energy Density Research Center in Russia and then worked at first-class institutions worldwide, developing her research program with support from international science foundations (University of Bayreuth, Germany; State University of Stony Brook, USA; Institute for Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Japan; Stanford University and University of Chicago, USA) and providing her professorial services at public and private universities (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; San Francisco State University; Illinois Institute of Technology, USA).
Abarzhi’s research expertise is multi-scale systems in a broad sense, including their theoretical, mathematical, probabilistic, and data analysis aspects. Her research contributed to the areas of hydrodynamic instabilities and turbulent mixing in fluids, plasmas and materials, and spanned the fields of nonlinear partial differential equations, stochastic processes and data analysis. More recently, it touched the areas of design of experiment, dynamical systems and quantitative biology. Her research contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic instabilities and turbulent mixing were recognized by international awards (Alexander von Humbold Foundation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, among others), and presented as invited lectures at high profile international meetings and institutions.
Currently the focus of Abarzhi's research is on fundamental properties of statistically unsteady processes, in particular, turbulent mixing, for which a new theoretical concept was introduced and the first self-consistent description was found. Her research program is supported by the US National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, and the National Institute of Health.
Abarzhi has served the scientific community in several capacities, including fouding a new program “Turbulent Mixing and Beyond” and providing editorial and reviewing services for reputable scientific journals and national and international funding agencies. Her recent educational program for graduate studies included modern methods of theoretical analysis as well as methods of data analysis and interpretation.

Graduate students interested in studies of 'Non-equilibrium turbulent processes in plasmas' are invited to apply.