Acting Director of the Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics
Andrey Valerievich Butenko, Candidate of Technical Sciences.
Date and place of birth:
17 April 1974, Dubna, Moscow Region, USSR
Education:
- 1991–1996 Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Industrial and Civil Construction
- 1997–2000 “01.04.20 Beam and Charged Particle Physics and Accelerator Technology” post-graduate programme at the JINR University Centre
- 2012 Candidate of Technical Sciences (“Upgrade of the vacuum system of the Nuclotron and the acceleration system of low-intensity Xe beams at the VBLHEP accelerator complex”).
Professional career:
- 1996–2007 an engineer, a senior engineer, Chief Engineer of Beam Department, LHE JINR
- 2007–2009 Chief Engineer of the Nuclotron main facility at VBLHEP at JINR, Head of the Injector and Nuclotron Department, VBLHEP JINR
- Since 2014 Interim Head of the Accelerator Division, VBLHEP JINR
- 2020–2022 Deputy Director for Scientific Work, VBLHEP JINR
- Since 2022 VBLHEP JINR Acting Director.
Scientific and organizational activities:
- 2011–2017 Supervisor of the construction and launch of a new fore-injector for the LU-20 Light-Ion Linear Accelerator, then of the Heavy-Ion Linear Accelerator of the NICA Injection Complex
- 2013–2022 Supervisor of the design, assembly, and commissioning of the Booster Synchrotron at the NICA Complex
- Since 2018 Co-leader of the Nuclotron-NICA Project on the creation of the NICA Experimental Accelerator Complex aimed at search for new phenomena and studying processes of phase transitions of nuclear matter in high energy heavy-ion collisions
Educational activities:
- 2000–2007 a senior lecturer at the Department of Electrophysical Facilities of the MIREA branch in Dubna
- Since 2007 Member of the VBLHEP Science and Technology Council
- 2014–2019 Member of the JINR Science and Technology Council
Research interests:
Specialist in superconducting cyclic and linear ion accelerators. Theoretical and experimental research in ion beam dynamics in superconducting synchrotrons.
Scientific publications:
Author and co-author of more than 140 scientific papers.
Honorary titles, awards:
- 2006 Certificate of Honour of the Main Department for Labor and Social Affairs of the Moscow region
- 2010 II JINR Prize
- 2011 JINR Certificate of Honour
- 2016 Certificate of Honour of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom
- 2016 I VBLHEP JINR Prize
- 2017 I VBLHEP JINR Prize
- 2017 II JINR Prize
- 2020 Certificate of Honour of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
- 2021 I JINR Prize
- 2021 Medal “For Contribution to the Implementation of State Policy in the Field of Scientific and Technological Development”
- 2022 Commendation of the Governor of the Moscow Region
- 2024 Veksler Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2025 Commendation of the Russian President
