Yury G. Kolomensky joined the Physics Department faculty in July 2000. He received a B.S. in Physics at St. Petersburg Technical University and M.S. in Physics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1997, where his work on the spin structure of the nucleon was awarded the 1998 Outstanding Thesis in Nuclear Physics Award from the American Physics Society. He was a Robert A. Millikan Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics at CalTech from 1997 to 2000.PUBLICATIONS "Search for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation in Narrow Upsilon Decays", J.P. Lees et al. (BaBar Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 151802 (2010). "Muon-induced Backgrounds in the CUORICINO Experiment", E. Andreotti et al. (CUORICINO Collaboration) Astropart. Phys. 34, 18 (2010). "Search for Dimuon Decays of a Light Scalar Boson in Radiative Transitions", B. Aubert et al. (BaBar Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 081803 (2009). "Measurement of the Branching Fraction, Polarization, and CP Asymmetries in B0 -> &rho0&rho0 Decay, and Implications for the CKM Angle alpha , B. Aubert et al. (BaBar Collaboration), Phys. Rev. D78, 071104 (2008).