Director of the Laboratory of Radiation Biology
Aleksander N. Bugay, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics.
Date and place of birth:
7 April 1983, Gvardeisk, Kaliningrad Region, USSR.
Education and degrees:
- 2000–2005 Kaliningrad State University, Physics Department
- 2005–2008 postgraduate programme at Immanuel Kant Russian State University (Kaliningrad) in theoretical physics
- 2008 Candidate of Physics and Mathematics (“Quasi-one-dimensional solitary waves in solids”)
- 2019 Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (“Nonlinear interaction of quasimonochromatic and broadband pulses in anisotropic media”)
Professional career:
- 2008–2015 an LRB JINR researcher
- 2015–2019 Head of an LRB JINR Sector
- Since 2019 LRB JINR Director
Scientific and organizational activities:
- Since 2019 an STC JINR member
- Since 2021 a member of the Bureau of the Scientific Council on Radiobiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
- Since 2022 a member of the JINR Dissertation Council for Information Technologies and Computational Physics
- Since 2025 a member of the Science and Technology Council No. 9 for Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology of Rosatom
- Since 2025 a member of the focus group of JINR and Federal Medical and Biological Agency on the creation of a proton therapy centre
- Since 2025 Deputy Chair of the JINR Interlaboratory Council for Biophysics Studies
- Since 2025 Deputy Chair of the RAS Scientific Council on Radiobiology
- Since 2025 a member of the IUPAP Commission on Biological Physics
- Chair, member of programme and organizing committees of a number of international conferences and scientific schools
Educational activity:
- 2019–2025 Professor at the Department of Biophysics at Dubna State University
- Since 2025 Head of the Department of Biophysics at Dubna State University
- Supervisor of 2 candidate’s dissertations
- Lecturer at international schools
Scientific interests:
- Mathematical modelling and high-performance computing in radiobiology
- Radiation biophysics
- Neuroradiobiology
- Medical radiobiology
- Nonlinear waves and solitons
- Terahertz radiation
- Extremely short laser pulses
Scientific publications:
Author and co-author of more than 120 papers and 2 invention patents
Grants and awards:
- 2006–2012 Dynasty Foundation prizewinner (theoretical physics)
- 2005–2019 Co-investigator in several grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (physics, radiation biology)
- 2017–2021 Principal investigator in a grant of the Russian Science Foundation (mathematics)
- 2018 JINR Prize for the series entitled “Study of the nonlinear dynamics of the waves of the terahertz frequency range in condensed matter and living systems”
- 2021 Commendation of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
