Dr. Soloviev has been a professor at Nova Southeastern University’s Oceanographic Center, Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences at Halmos College of Arts and Sciences since 1996. He advises students and teaches graduate courses including Physical Oceanography, Fluid Mechanics, and Biophysical Interactions in the Ocean.

From September 2024 to September 2025, Soloviev served as an IPA Director of the Physical Oceanography Program at the National Science Foundation.

Previously, he was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, a Visiting Scientist at the University of Hawaii and University of Hamburg, and a Scientist in the two leading institutions of the former Soviet Academy of Sciences, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology and A.M. Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics.

Soloviev has participated in several major oceanographic and air-sea interaction experiments. He has spent a total of over 3 years at sea. He is the author or co-author of more than 80 peer-reviewed research articles and holds several patents in environmental engineering and oceanography. In collaboration with Prof. Roger Lukas of the University of Hawaii, he co-authored monograph “The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean: Structure, Dynamics, and Applications", published by Springer in two editions.

A naturalized U.S. citizen, Soloviev graduated from high school in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine in 1970. He received Diploma of Engineer from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1976 and later earned his PhD and Habilitation (Dr Sci) from MIPT and the former Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1979 and 1992, respectively. 

In addition to his science degrees, he completed Executive MBA at the University of Florida in 2010 and earned Executive Certificate in “Driving Innovation and New Ventures in Established Organizations” at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2024.

Dr. Soloviev has been PI or co-PI on 23 research projects funded by the U.S. Federal Government and private industries. His extramural funding over the last 29 years at NSU has exceeded $33 million.

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