Vice President , Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia
Biography
Graduated from the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute of Moscow, then becoming Senior Scientist at the Institute for Physical Problems - where he still teaches - at IPP RAS (as from1992) and at the Russian New University, where he also served as Vice Director and currently as advisor. He was Professor of Physics (1956-1965) and Full Professor and Chairperson at Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology (1965-1998) and is still Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Problems of Population of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He holds many responsible posts in several institutions: Vice President of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia (1990-), President of the Euroasian Physical Society (1993-), Member of the Russian Presidential Council on Arts and Culture (1996-).