• Extrasolar planets: Stellar-planetary interactions, habitability, search algorithms, exoplanetary magnetospheres
• Planetary Magnetospheric/atmospheric/surface physics: Io-Jupiter electrodynamic interaction, Mercury, Earth paleo-magnetosphere, exoplanets
• Solar/stellar physics: Solar/stellar activity and winds; Dynamics of solar/stellar plasma-magnetic structures; flares; prominences; CMEs; waves
• Radio astronomy: radiation mechanisms, data analysis
• Plasma physics: MHD and kinetic theories in application to astrophysical and aerospace problems
• Laboratory astrophysics: experimental study of space plasma processes
• Scientific research management: Project coordination; EU FP6, FP7, Horizon 2020; European Research Area (ERA) and Research Infrastructures

Current research summary (since 2015)

Since 2014: Senior Academy Scientist (since 2021), Research Scientist (2009-2021), Postdoc (2002-2009), Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria (permanent; full-time)
2001-2014: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria (full-time)
1999-2001: Senior Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, DE (fellowship; full-time)
1989-1999: Research Scientist, Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, RU; (full-time)