Milestones in Scientific Career 

• 1993: Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Supervisor: Professor A.S. Matveev; 
• 1997: PhD in Applied Mathematics, Dept. of Theoretical Cybernetics, St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Supervisor: Professor V.A. Yakubovich
• 1998-99: Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Engineering Cybernetics, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, 1998 - 1999. 
• 2000-2003: Assistant and Associate Professor at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Møller Institute for Production Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. 
• 2003: A.Shiriaev was ranked the number 1 among 25 candidates for the position of Research Associate of the 1st Class (CR 1) at the open 2003 concurs of Centre National de la Recherché Scientifique (CNRS, France), the section: informatics, automation and signal processing 
• Since September 2003: Professor (full time) at the Department of Applied Physics and Electronics, Umeå University, Umea, Sweden 
• Since August 2009: Professor (full time) at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway