Victor Anatolievich Matveev

Education:

• 1959–1964 Far East State University, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics; Leningrad State University, Faculty of Physics
• 1967 PhD in Physics and Mathematics (“Dispersion sum rules and symmetry properties of elementary particles”)
• 1973 Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics (“Quasipotential scattering theory in quantum field theory”)
• 1980 Professor, Theoretical Physics
• 1991 Professor Emeritus, M. Lomonosov Moscow State University
• 1991 Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1994 Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professional career:

• 1965–1978 Postgraduate Researcher, Junior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Acting Head of Sector, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
• 1976–1977 Leader, JINR Physicists’ Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (USA)
• 1978–1987 Deputy Director for Research, Institute for Nuclear Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
• 1987–2011 Director, Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2011 Acting Director of JINR
• 2012–2020 Director of JINR
• Since 1 January 2021 Scientific Leader of JINR

Educational activity:

• 1980–1992 Professor, Chair of Quantum Statistics and Field Theory of the Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University (MSU)
• Since 1992 Professor, Chair of Quantum Theory and High Energy Physics of the Faculty of Physics, MSU (Course “Introduction to Elementary Particle Physics”)
• Since 1995 Head of Chair “Fundamental Interactions and Cosmology” of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Scientific-organizational activity:

• Since 1992 Member, Scientific Council of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
• Since 1992 Member, Editorial Board of the Journal “Nuclear Physics”
• 1996–2000; 2004 Member, Council of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
• Since 1996 Chairman, Board of the Russia and Dubna Member States Collaboration in the CMS experiment at CERN’s LHC
• Since 1996 Member of the RAS Presidium, Deputy Academician-Secretary of the RAS Nuclear Physics Division
• Since 1996 Chairman, Presidium of the RAS Troitsk Science Centre
• Since 1998 Member, Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics and Gravitation International Committee (PaNAGIC) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
• Since 1999 Member, Presidium of the Russian Higher Attestation Commission
• Since 2000 Head of the RAS Presidium Fundamental Research Programme “Neutrino Investigations”
• Since 2008 Academician-Secretary of the RAS Physical Sciences Division
• Since 2014 Editor-in-Chief of the RAS Journal of Surface Investigation: X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Techniques
• Since 2015 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal “Physics of Elementary Particles and Atomic Nuclei”

Research interests:

• Elementary particle physics
• Theoretical and mathematical physics
• Methods of quantum field theory in the development of relativistic quark models of hadrons
• Searches for dynamical symmetries in high energy physics and detection on their basis of general regularities which are manifested in particle interactions

Scientific publications:

Author of more than 700 scientific papers, co-author of the discovery “Regularities of large-angle elastic hadron scattering at high energies –– Matveev–Muradyan–Tavkhelidze quark counting rules”.

Prizes, honorary titles:

• Lenin Komsomol Prize in Science and Technology (1973)
• Lenin Prize (1988) for a series of studies “New quantum number – colour and establishment of dynamical regularities in the quark structure of elementary particles and atomic nuclei”
• Russian Federation State Prize in Science and Technology “For the construction of the Baksan neutrino observatory and research in the field of neutrino astrophysics, particle physics and cosmic rays” (1998)
• Order of Honour (1999)
• Title “Honored Scientist of the Moscow Region” (1999)
• Title “Honorary Professor of Moscow State University” (2000)
• Russian Government Prize “For the development, construction and commissioning for scientific exploitation of the high-current linear proton accelerator of the Moscow Meson Factory” (2000)
• Title “Honorary Citizen of Troitsk” (2001)
• Order “For Service to the Fatherland”, IV degree (2007)
• National Order of Merit (France), Officer degree (2017)
• Order “For Service to the Fatherland”, III degree (2017)
• Title “Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest” (2018)
• Title “Honorary Doctor of the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute” (2018)
• Title “Honorary Doctor of the Saint Petersburg State University” (2019)
• Title “Honorary Doctor of the Far Eastern Federal University” (2024)
• Medals, twice awarded with the Moscow Region Governor’s badge of honour “Thank you”
• Listed in the Moscow Region’s Book of Fame

More information:

INR RAS – Curriculum vitae of Academician V.A. Matveev