In 1997 he earned a PhD and in 2007 a D.Sc from the Ural Department of RAS. He successfully completed Retraining Managers Federal Program of the Russian Federation (retraining diploma PP 696252, 2004). He underwent the program “Emerging Leaders of Higher Education” of “Skolkovo” Moscow School of Management on demand of Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (2013). Alexey Nilokaevich is a Government Expert Council member. In 2018 he participated in Fulbright Program and received the position of a visiting professor at State University of New York at Albany, USA. He participated twice in Outreach Lecture Fund. He has been presented with national and international awards (Mexican, USA, and German) for academic and scientific excellence. He performs academic work in the spheres of science, education and innovations and is engaged in international activity. He also holds a managerial position. Since 1996 he has been working at Department of Differential and Integral Equations of SFedU (previously known as Rostov State University). He started his career as an assistant lecturer, then became an associate professor and was finally appointed full professor. From 2004 to 2007 he did a doctoral course at Rostov State University. In 2004 served as head of International Affairs Department of the Southern Scientific Center of RAS (SSC RAS). In 1998-2007 he worked as a visiting professor at the universities of Mexico, USA, Portugal, and Germany. In 2008 – 2012 Alexey Nikolaevich served as the vice rector of Informatization of Education of Southern Federal University. He carried out research in Russia and abroad, taught in English and Spanish in different universities of the world (Mexico, USA, Germany, Portugal), he presented talks at seminars and colloquiums, was invited as a thesis opponent to universities of Mexico, USA, UAE, Germany, Spain, Italy, Serbia, Portugal, Sweden, Belarus, Armenia, and Georgia. From 1998 to 2013 he did 12 internship courses on science, education, management in national and international institutions (5 international, 5 national and 2 joint programs). Alexey Nikolaevich speaks Russian, Spanish and is fluent in English.