At the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences (abbreviated ПОМИ им.
В. А. Стеклова РАН in Russian), he defended in 1984 his thesis for the degree of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences (Ph.D.) with supervisor Andrei Suslin[3] and then became employed there as a staff member.
Panin received in 1996 the degree of Doctor nauk from the St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics of Russian Academy of Sciences.
[4] In 2018 in Rio de Janeiro he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
Panin found a proof of Gersten's conjecture in the case of equal characteristic and an affirmative solution (jointly with Manuel Ojanguren) of the "purity" problem for quadratic forms.