Head of the Department of Condensed Matter Research and Development, FLNP, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, RAS Corresponding Member

Date and place of birth:

4 February, 1956, Ukhta, Komi Republic, USSR.

Education:

1973 – 1979 - Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, field of study: solid state physics;

1984 – Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (“Investigation of the dynamics of lattices of molecular crystals using neutron scattering”);

1991 – The title of senior researcher awarded by the Higher Attestation Commission;

1997 – Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (“Investigation of crystals with disordered hydrogen bonds using neutron scattering”).

Professional activities:

1973 – 1979 Researcher, FLNP JINR;

1989 – 1992 Scientific Secretary of FLNP JINR;

1992 – 1994 Visiting Scientist, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK);

1994 – 2000 Deputy Director of FLNP JINR;

2001 Acting Director of FLNP JINR;

2003 – 2012 Director of FLNP JINR;

Since 2012 Head of the Department of Condensed Matter Research and Development, FLNP JINR;

Since 2011 Honorary Professor at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology;

Since 2017, Head of the Department of Nuclear Methods of Materials Science at Kazan Federal University;

Since 2022 Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Scientific and organizational activities:

Member of the section “Ferroelectrics and Dielectrics” and the section “Nuclear Methods for Condensed Matter Research” of the Scientific Council for Condensed Matter Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

Member of the JINR PAC for Condensed Matter Physics;

Member of the Russian Neutron Society;

Observer from JINR at the European Neutron Scattering Association;

Member of the American Neutron Society;

Coordinator from Russia for international cooperation in the field of advanced neutron sources;

Member of the editorial boards “Annals of the Academy of Romanian Scientists”, “Surface: X-ray, synchrotron and neutron investigations”;

Member of the organizational and programme committees of a number of national and international conferences, schools and seminars;

Honorary Professor at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology;

Over the years, he has taught at MEPhI, Moscow State University, Russian Technological University and Dubna State University.

Scientific interests:

Lattice dynamics and phase transitions, disordered systems, diffusion in solids, experimental methods of neutron scattering.