Date and place of birth:
6 June, 1977, Skopin, Ryazan region, USSR.
Education:
1995 – 2000 Tula State University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics;
2005 – 2006 - International Institute of Management "LINK" (Presidential programme for managerial training for organizations of the national economy of the Russian Federation), "Business Management";
2006 Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (“Optimization of neutron moderators for high-flux sources”);
2018 Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (“Cold neutron moderators based on solid dispersed hydrogen-containing materials”).
Professional activities:
2000–2002 Trainee researcher, FLNP JINR;
2002–2004 Junior Researcher, FLNP JINR;
2004–2005 Researcher, FLNP JINR;
2005–2007 Researcher – Group Leader, FLNP JINR;
2007–2020 Head of Department, FLNP JINR;
2020–2023 Head of Dubna City District, Administration of Dubna City District;
2023–to date Deputy Director for Research, FLNP JINR.
Scientific and organizational activities:
2005-2006 Coordinator of the International Project “Investigation of the pressure of radiolytic hydrogen on the cold moderator chamber during irradiation of solid methane (URAM-3M)”;
2010-2012 Coordinator under the State Contract of the Federal Agency for Science and Innovation “Cryogenic moderator based on aromatic hydrocarbons aimed at producing an intense flux of cold neutrons at the powerful pulsed research reactor IBR-2”;
2014-2019 Project Leader in the IAEA coordination research programmes on cold neutron moderators;
2011-2017 Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Annual Youth Scientific Schools “Instruments and Methods of Experimental Nuclear Physics”;
Member of programme and organizing committees of international conferences and schools;
2015-2016 Member of the Science and Technology Council of the Moscow Region;
2022-to date Member of the Dissertation Council on Condensed Matter Physics at FLNP, JINR;
Member of the Science and Technology Council of FLNP;
Associate Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Neutron Research.
Scientific interests:
Physics of slow neutrons, neutron sources, neutron instruments and technology, neutron detection, radiation effects in materials irradiated with fast neutrons and gamma rays.
Scientific papers:
Co-author of more than 80 scientific papers and two patents.
Prizes, honorary titles, awards:
- Second JINR Prize for the paper “Radiation effects in materials of neutron cold moderators” (2003);
- I. M. Frank Scholarship (2003);
- Certificate of Honor of the Governor of the Moscow Region (2006);
- Letter of Gratitude from the Governor of the Moscow region (2010);
- Gratitude from the Governor of the Moscow Region (2011);
- Winner of the V.K. Zworykin National Innovation Award in the category "Nuclear Technologies" (2011);
- Second JINR Prize for the paper “Development of the pelletized cold neutron moderator for the IBR-2 reactor” (2014);
- Certificate of Honor from the State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom” (2016);
- First FLNP Prize for the series of papers “Magnetic system based on high-temperature superconductivity with a high-pressure chamber for the DN-12 diffractometer of the IBR-2 reactor for operation in a magnetic field up to 5 T and a temperature range of 4.5-300 K” (2020).