Oleg Podymov is a senior scientist in the Department of Hydrophysics and Modeling, Southern Branch of the P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Gelendzhik, Russia. He graduated in 2001 from the Department of Computing Machinery, Northwestern State Technical University, St. Petersburg, Russia (M.Sc.). In the same year he joined the Department of Marine Chemistry in the Southern Branch of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology in Gelendzhik as a programmer, lab assistant, and Ph.D. student. He earned a Ph.D. in oceanography in 2005. He switched from marine chemistry to physical oceanography, joining the Department of Hydrophysics and Modeling iatthe same institute in 2010. He is the author and co-author of 36 scientific papers.