Evgeny А. Yakushev

Director of the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems

Evgeny Alexandrovich Yakushev, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics.

Date and place of birth:

1 March 1973, Zhukovka, Bryansk Region, Russia

Education:

1995 Voronezh State University, Faculty of Physics.
2001 Candidate of Physics and Mathematics (“Search for admixture of heavy neutrinos in beta decay of ²⁴¹Pu”).
2023 Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (“Application of spectrometric methods and low-temperature germanium bolometer detectors for direct search of Dark Matter particles and other rare processes”).

Career:

1995 a DLNP JINR junior researcher.
1996–1998 intern at the СЕА, France.
2002–2004 researcher, the University of Alabama, USA.
2005–2012 a DLNP JINR senior researcher.
2012–2020 Head of the Nuclear Radiation Spectrometry Sector of the DLNP JINR Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy and Radiochemistry.
2020–2023 Head of the DLNP JINR Department of Nuclear Spectroscopy and Radiochemistry.
Since 2023 DLNP JINR Director.

Scientific and organizational activities:

Since 2005 Leader of the EDELWEISS Project at JINR, a member of EDELWEISS Collaboration Board.
2010–2017 a member of the Scientific Council of the LSM Laboratory in Modane, France
Since 2014 a DLNP STC member.
Since 2015 co-leader of the research topic entitled “Non-accelerator neutrino physics and astrophysics”.
Since 2021 supervisor of the DLNP seminars on nuclear spectroscopy and radiochemistry, nuclear structure, non-accelerator neutrino physics, and astrophysics.
Since 2022 head of the joint RICOCHET-EDELWEISS Project at JINR, a Collaboration Board member.
Since 2022 a member of the JINR Central Purchasing Commission.
Since 2023 a JINR STC member.
A member of the KamLAND, EDELWEISS, Majorana, Legend, Cupid-Mo, TGV-2, RICOCHET, DANSS, and nuGeN Projects.

Educational activities:

Since 2005 regularly supervises diplomas and dissertations. Supervisor of two candidate’s dissertations.

Scientific interests:

Neutrino physics, dark matter, nuclear spectroscopy. Search for New Physics (including supersymmetry) in low-energy processes and astrophysics. New detectors and experimental facilities to search for and study rare processes using nuclear spectrometry methods.

Scientific publications:

Co-author of more than 150 scientific papers with the h-index of 48 (Google Scholar). Co-author of an article on the first experimental detection of signals from geoneutrinos, co-author of a white paper on using reactors for detecting the neutrino mixing angle of θ13. Co-author of a new neutron detection method with iodine-containing detectors using delayed coincidences. Co-authored a paper on the first experimental observation of the change of the shape of the inverse-beta-decay spectrum related to neutrino oscillations. Co-author of an experimental solution to the problem of anomalously fast first-forbidden beta decays. Co-author of the experimental discovery of the low-energetic transition of 10.6 keV in 221Fr. Co-author of the atlas of low-energy electron spectra. Co-author of the first experimental measurement of tritium recovery by cosmic radiation in germanium crystals.

Honorary titles, awards:

2016 The 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (together with KamLAND Collaboration).
2016 The JINR Certificate of Honour.
2019–2020 Winner in the nomination “Methodological and applied research” (together with D. Ponomarev, S. Rozov, V. Timkin, D. Filosofov) in the competition of DLNP scientific works.
2022 First JINR prize (together with the νGeN Collaboration).
2025 Letter of Appreciation from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.