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Born 10 August 1957, Magnitogorsk, USSR Married, 2 children Education, degrees and awards High school examination in Magnitogorsk, advanced physical-mathematical school #53, 1972 Master of science examination in Theoretical Physics at Department of Physics, Ural State University, Sverdlovsk, 1977, excellent grade (Oscillations of inhomogeneous electron plasma in WKB approximation). Awarded the Distinguished M. Sc. Diploma PhD in Solid State Physics at Institute of Metal Physics (Sverdlovsk), 1980, supervisor Prof. Sergey V. Vonsovsky (Instabilities of electron energy spectrum and elementary excitations in s-d exchange and polar models of a crystal) DSc in Solid State Physics, 1985, Institute of Metal Physics (Strong electron correlations in transition metals, their alloys and compounds) Professorship in Solid State Physics and in Mathematical Physics in Ural State University, 1992; in Theoretical Physics in Radbound University of Nijmegen 2004 Lenin Komsomol Prize (State Prize for young scientists of the USSR), 1988, for Quantitative theory of electronic, magnetic and optical properties of transition metals, their alloys and compounds Radboud Science Award, 2010 Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, 2011 Honorary Doctor of Uppsala University, 2012 Spinoza Prize (highest scientific award in the Netherlands), 2013 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, 2016 Advanced Grant of European Research Council, 2013 Synergy Grant of European Research Council, 2019 Gravitation Grant (excellence grant for scientific consortia in the Netherlands), 2022 Elected member of Academia Europaea, 2013 Elected member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2014 Elected member of Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala, 2015 Outstanding Referee for the journals of the American Physical Society, 2012 Distinguished Referee for the Europhysics Letters, 2013 Reviewer of the Year for the npj Quantum Materials, 2022 Plenary speaker at International Congress on Mathematical Physics, 2015 WISE guest professor at Uppsala University, 2023 Working experience Employment: 1977-2003: young researcher, researcher, senior researcher, leading researcher, chief researcher, head of the Quantum Theory of Metals Group in Institute of Metal Physics, Ekaterinburg (former Sverdlovsk), Russia; 1992 - 2001: professor of Ural State University, Ekaterinburg; 2002-2004: visiting professor, Theoretical Magnetism Group, Uppsala University, SwedenPresent position: professor, head of the group of Theory of Condensed Matter, Radboud University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Visiting positions (for one-three months): Max-Planck-Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart (1990, 1996); Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden (1996, 1998); Imperial College, London (1991); Ames National Laboratory, Ames, Iowa (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001); University of Nijmegen (2000, 2001); Uppsala University (2000); University of Hamburg (2011). Professional service Referee: Science, Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Physics, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, PNAS, Reviews of Modern Physics, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review A,B,X, Nuclear Physics B, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Europhysics Letters, Accounts of Chemical Research, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, Acta Materialia, Nanoscale, Journal of American Chemical Society, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Journal of Physical Chemistry, Solid State Communications, Dalton, Langmuir, Journal of Chemical Physics, New Journal of Physics, Nanotechnology, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Journal of Physics A, European Physical Journal B, Chemical Physics Letters, International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, Physics Letters A, Physica Status Solidi, Physica Scripta, JETP Letters, JETP and other journalsScientific Secretary of Joint Research Council for Physical and Technical Sciences, Ural Division of Russian Academy of Sciences, 1992-1999 Member of Program Board of Lorentz Center (Leiden), 2007-2012 Divisional Associate Editor of Physical Review Letters, 2014-2020 Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Advanced Materials Interfaces, from 2013 Member of Executive Editorial Board of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, from 2012 Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2009-2011 Member of Advisory Editorial Board of Entropy, from 2020 Editor of Annals of Physics, from 2024 Organizer of the workshop Computational Approaches to Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems (COMPEC), Dresden, May 1998 Member of the Program Committee of the European and Asian Symposium Trends in Magnetism (EASTMAG), Ekaterinburg, February 2001 Chairman of the Program Committee of the Conference on the Electronic Structure and Magnetism of Strongly Correlated Systems, Miass (Russia), March 2001 Organizer of the Focus Week Computational Approaches to Nonlinear Phenomena in Solids, Dresden, September 2001 Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Conference on the Electronic Structure and Computational Magnetism, Washington DC, July 2002
Organizer of the workshop Dynamics in Magnetic Materials, Uppsala,
November 2003
Chairman of the Program Committee of KNAW Conference Multiscale Modelling: Electrons,
Molecules and (Bio) Materials, Amsterdam, April 2006 |