Vice-Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics.
Date and place of birth:
6 June 1977, Skopin, Ryazan Region, USSR.
Education, academic degrees and titles:
- 1995–2000 Tula State University, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics
- 2005–2006 International Institute of Management “LINK” (Presidential Program for Retraining Management Personnel for Organizations of the National Economy of the Russian Federation), Business Management
- 2006 Candidate of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics (“Optimization of neutron moderators for high-flux sources”)
- 2018 Doctor of Sciences in Physics and Mathematics (“Cold neutron moderators based on solid dispersed hydrogen-containing materials”)
Professional activity:
- 2000–2002 Trainee Researcher, FLNP JINR
- 2002–2004 Junior Researcher, FLNP JINR
- 2004–2005 Researcher, FLNP JINR
- 2005–2007 Researcher, Head of Group, FLNP JINR
- 2007–2020 Head of Scientific and Experimental Department, FLNP JINR
- 2020–2023 Head of the city of Dubna, Administration of the city of Dubna
- 2023–2026 Deputy Director for Science, FLNP JINR
- Since 2026 Vice-Director of JINR
Scientific and organizational activity:
- 2005–2006 Coordinator of the international project “Study of the pressure of radiolytic hydrogen on the cold moderator chamber during irradiation of solid methane (URAM-3M)”
- 2010–2012 Coordinator of work under the State Contract of the Federal Agency for Science and Innovation “Cryogenic moderator based on aromatic hydrocarbons for producing an intense cold neutron flux at the IBR-2 high-flux pulsed research reactor”
- 2011–2017 Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the annual Youth Scientific Schools “Instruments and Methods of Experimental Nuclear Physics”; Member of program and organizing committees of international conferences and schools
- 2014–2019 Project Leader in the IAEA Coordinated Research Programs on Cold Neutron Moderators
- 2015–2016 Member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Moscow Region
- Since 2022 Member of the Dissertation Council on Condensed Matter Physics at FLNP JINR; Member of the FLNP Scientific and Technical Council
- Since 2026 Member of the Scientific and Technical Council of Dubna
- Since 2026 Project Leader in the IAEA Coordinated Research Program on “Expanding Neutron Beam Capabilities at Low and Medium Flux Neutron Sources”
Scientific interests:
- Physics of slow neutrons
- Neutron sources
- Neutron instruments and techniques
- Neutron detection
- Cryogenic technique
- Radiation effects in materials irradiated with fast neutrons and gamma rays
Scientific works:
Co-author of more than 80 scientific papers and two patents.
Prizes, honorary titles, awards:
- 2003 JINR Second Prize for the work “Radiation effects in materials of neutron cold moderators”
- 2006 Honorary Diploma of the Governor of the Moscow Region
- 2010 Letter of Appreciation from the Governor of the Moscow Region
- 2011 Certificate of Recognition from the Governor of the Moscow Region
- 2011 Winner of the V. K. Zworykin National Award in Innovation in the nomination “Nuclear Technologies”
- 2014 JINR Second Prize for the work “Development and construction of pelletized cold neutron moderator for the IBR-2 reactor”
- 2016 Badge of the Moscow Regional Duma “For Assistance to the Law”
- 2016 Honorary Diploma of the State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom”
- 2020 FLNP First Prize for the series of works “Magnetic system based on high-temperature superconductivity with a high-pressure chamber for the DN-12 diffractometer of the IBR-2 reactor for operation in a magnetic field up to 5 T and a temperature range of 4.5–300 K”
- 2023 Badge “Service to Dubna”
