Stanislav Volkov received his Diploma and Ph.D. in Mathematics from Moscow State University, and his M.A. and M.Sc. in Economics from the New Economic School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Fields Institute (Canada) and EURANDOM (Netherlands) before moving to a permanent position at the University of Bristol (UK). Since 2012, he has been a Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Lund University.

His research interests include discrete probability, history-dependent random walks, time-inhomogeneous Markov chains, and percolation.