Alexander Mikhailovich Sergeyev

Alexander Michailowitsch Sergejew (2017)

Alexander Mikhailovich Sergeev ( Russian Александр Михайлович Сергеев , scientific transliteration Aleksandr Michajlovič Sergeev ; born August 2, 1955 in Buturlino ) is a Russian physicist and university professor .

Life

Sergejew studied at the Faculty of Radiation Physics of Gorky State University with a degree in 1977. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Applied Physics (IPF) in Gorky . With Alexander Grigorjewitsch Litwak he completed his candidate dissertation on the effects of strong electromagnetic waves in a magnetically active plasmawhich he defended in 1982. He teaches at Gorky State University (until 1990, then Nizhny Novgorod State University (NNGU)) and was appointed professor in 1991. In 1991 he became head of the Ultrafast Phenomena Laboratory. In 2000 he defended his doctoral thesis on nonlinear wave processes in the generation of ultra-short optical pulses and the interaction of strong optical fields with matter . In 2001 he became Director of the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics and Optics and Vice Director of the IPF. In 2003 he became a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN).

Sergejev's fields of work are laser physics and in particular ultra-short pulse lasers , plasma physics and biophotonics . In the 1990s he organized the development of femtosecond lasers . Record radiation outputs of several hundred terawatts were achieved. These included titanium: sapphire lasers and fiber optic lasers . Based on the theory of dissipative optical solitons , he developed a model for describing the functionality of the femtosecond laser, the predictions of which were then confirmed experimentally. In 2010, Sergejew proposed a project to develop the world's most powerful laser with several hundred petawatt peak power. The Russian government accepted the proposal and decided to implement it with a project duration until 2020 and the establishment of the Exawatt Center for Extreme Light Studies (XCELS) in Nizhny Novgorod . With a group of physicists and physicians , he develops instruments for optical tomography of biological tissues. These include optical coherence tomography , diffuse optical tomography, optical fluorescence tomography and ultramicroscopy . The methods developed can in the diagnosis of cancers help. Sergejew is the author or co-author of around 380 scientific publications (as of 2018).

Sergejew is involved in the gravitational wave observatory and ensured the participation of Russian scientists in the High Power laser Energy Research facility (HiPER) for the study of inertial fusion and in the Extreme Light Infrastructure laser project . He is a Russian representative and Vice Chairman of the International Committee on Ultra High Intensity Laser (ICUIL) and member of the Commission for Atomic Energy - molecule - and optical physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics . Sergeev is a member of the Council of the Russian Fund for Basic Research . Sergejew is an expert at the annual international Moscow Economic Forum .

Sergeev is a member of the July 1st Club - a group of academicians who protested in 2013 against a bill to reform the RAN by replacing the RAN with a new Academy of Sciences. As a result, the RAN was not replaced by a new academy.

In 2015, Sergejew became director of the RAN IPF, succeeding Alexander Grigoryevich Litwak, who remained the institute's scientific director. Under Sergeev's direction, the IPF was reorganized as a federal research center in association with the Institute for Microstructure Physics of the RAN and the Institute for Problems of Mechanical Engineering of the RAN in Nizhny Novgorod. In 2016, Sergeyev became a full member of RAN. In 2017 he was elected as the successor to Valery Vasilyevich Koslow in the second ballot against Robert Iskandrovich Nigmatulin as President of the RAN. In an interview with the magazine W mire nauki , he complained that Russian science did not contribute to the innovation of the Russian economy, that the number of contributions from Russia to important international conferences was declining, and that in leading international journals the essays of Russian authors, especially with experimental ones Results with high citations are negligible, that research funding per scientist is 100 times lower than in Japan and that the quality of education at schools and universities is declining. In a speech to the Urals scientists he called on science to lead and coordinate strategies for the development of science and technology and from the government to provide increased financial support in order to carry out large scientific projects of global importance.

Sergejew is married to the IPF researcher Marina Dmitrijewna Tschernobrovzewa. Her son Michail is an employee of the NNGU and her daughter Jekaterina is a researcher at the IPF.

Honors, prizes, memberships

• State Prize of the Russian Federation (1999)
• Order of Honor (2006)
• Science and Technology Award of the Government of the Russian Federation (2012) for the Petawatt Laser Project
• Gruber Prize for Cosmology (2016) for the LIGO team
• Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (2017)
• Chevalier des Ordre des Palmes Académiques (2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} IPF: Сергеев Александр Михайлович (accessed June 9, 2018).
2. ↑ ^{a b c} IPF: Александр Михайлович Сергеев (accessed June 9, 2018).
3. ↑ Exawatts Center for Extreme Light Studies (XCELS) (accessed on 9 June 2018).
4. ↑ Сведения о публикациях А. М. Сергеева (information on AM Sergeev's publications) . elibrary.ru . Retrieved October 4, 2018.
5. ↑ Эксперты форума (accessed June 8, 2018).
6. ↑ Ксения Авдеева: Реформу РАН обсудили эксперты Московского экономического форума (accessed June 8, 2018).
7. ↑ Заявляем об отказе вступить в новую «РАН» (accessed June 8, 2018).
8. ↑ Федеральный исследовательский центр Институт прикладной физики Российской академии наук (accessed June 9, 2018 ( ) РНА (June 9, 2018 ()).
9. ↑ RAN: Сергеев Александр Михайлович (accessed June 9, 2018).
10. ↑ Физик Александр Сергеев избран главой РАН (accessed June 8, 2018).
11. ↑ Владимир Губарев: Президент РАН Александр Сергеев: " Надо начинать с достижения консенсуса между властью, наукой и обществом " . In: W mire nauki . No. 10 , 2017, p. 3–11 ( sciam.ru [accessed June 9, 2018]).
12. ↑ «Время сложное, полувоенное, санкционное. Видно, что это надолго ». Новый президент РАН обозначил на Урале новые задачи перед отечественными учеными (accessed June 9, 2018).
13. ↑ Глава Российской академии наук получил высшую научную награду Франции . In: TASS . April 18, 2018 ( tass.ru [accessed June 9, 2018]).