Foreign awards :
            
           Humboldt Stipendium, Universitaet Stuttgart, 1996-1998
           NATO Expert Visit grant: PST.EV.978462, 2000
           NATO Expert Visit grant: PST.EV.976482, 2002
           INTAS project (ref. No. 05-000008-7921), 2005-2007
           Roy. Soc. London Int. Joint project (ref No. 2005/R1), 2006-2007
           Joint grant RFBR-Roy. Soc. No. 11-01-92603, 2011-2012