Alexey sergeev academician. Academician Alexander Sergeev: "The reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences was harmful for our fundamental science." President of the Russian Academy of Sciences about the Russian trace in the Nobel Prize in Physics

Extraordinary General Meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, at which all candidates spoke. Each of them included the figure of the president of the country in their reform program, either offering him to head the board of trustees, or initiating amendments to the 253rd Federal Law on the Russian Academy of Sciences.

At the meeting, acting President of the Russian Academy of Sciences noted that the elections are unlikely to be held in one round and turned out to be right: Alexander Sergeev and.

In the second round, candidates needed 746 votes to win. Sergeev received 1,045 votes, Nigmatulin - 412.

The former president of the Academy also supported Sergeev's candidacy.

“When electing a president, we must pay special attention to the fact that he must be a prominent scientist who enjoys our respect and will be respected,”

“The work of scientists at the RAS requires rethinking. We must have young and active leaders in the leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences, for whom the Academy will be the main place of work, and not part-time. Each member of the academy should have a list of academic responsibilities. First of all, we need to return trust, then - the respect of society, ”Sergeev emphasized.

Vice-rector of Moscow State University, academician Khokhlov, a former candidate for the presidency of the Russian Academy of Sciences, commented on the victory of Alexander Sergeev:

“Of course I'm glad, I supported him.

I hope that this will start the process of updating the RAS, which is necessary and the Academy will gradually restore its authority. There is every reason for this.

This is a very good victory, convincing. It shows that there is hope that the RAS will really find the strength to restore its authority and influence. It is necessary not to close ourselves off, but to interact with the entire scientific community, to constructively negotiate with the authorities. The authorities are ultimately interested in the development of the scientific sphere. "

“It all depends on what kind of team he will assemble. This will be revealed on Thursday. I hope that the team will be updated and that Sergeev's program will be implemented. ".

Alexander Sergeev, member of the Commission for Combating Pseudoscience under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences:

“Aside from personalities, the Academy was faced with a choice: to completely submit to the dictates of state policy, engage in populist flirting with the authorities, creating the illusion of independence, or try to indicate that science, despite its plight, objectively remains an independent force. Each of these trends was rather tentatively associated with the personas of candidates. The choice of Academician Alexander Sergeev corresponds to the third of these options.

I do not expect any miracles, of course, but this is the best option for the Academy under the circumstances.

But, apparently, I will have to think about a pseudonym. "

, RSFSR, USSR

Alma mater

Faculty of Radiophysics, UNN [d] ( )

Biography

He has held the positions of Research Assistant, Junior (since 1979) and Senior (since 1985) Research Fellow. In 1982, under the guidance of A. G. Litvak, he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic "Self-action and transformation of intense electromagnetic waves in a magnetoactive plasma."

In 1991 he became the head of the laboratory of superfast phenomena, in 1994 he headed the department of superfast phenomena. In 2000 he defended his doctoral dissertation "Nonlinear wave processes in the generation of ultrashort optical pulses and the interaction of strong optical fields with matter."

In 2001, he was elected Director of the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics and Optics and was appointed Deputy Director of the IAP RAS.

In 2012, he left the post of department director and became the first deputy director of the Institute for scientific work.

In July 2013, A. M. Sergeev opposed the government's plans to reform the Russian Academy of Sciences, which were reflected in the draft Federal Law "On the Russian Academy of Sciences, the reorganization of state academies of sciences and amendments to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation" 305828-6. In protest, he announced his refusal to join the "new RAS" established by the proposed law if adopted (see Club on July 1).

In 2015, he was elected director of the IAP RAS, the previous director, Alexander Litvak, at the same time became the scientific director of the institute. Under the leadership of A.M.Sergeev, the institute was reorganized into a federal research center and in 2016 annexed as branches the Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, also located in Nizhny Novgorod.

On October 28, 2016 he was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Physical Sciences.

At the end of September 2017, he took over as President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. After that, he announced his resignation from the post of director of the institute, but asked to keep him a job. Deputy Chairman of the Council for Science and Education under the President of the Russian Federation since 2017. Member of the Council for Increasing the Competitiveness of Leading Universities of the Russian Federation among the world's leading research and educational centers since 2018.

Scientific activity

A. M. Sergeev is one of the leading Russian specialists in the field of laser physics, femtosecond optics, plasma physics and biophotonics.

In the 1990s, he organized work at the IAP RAS to create femtosecond laser sources. Under his leadership, a complex of such sources was created, including a laser based on parametric light amplification with a peak radiation power of hundreds of terawatts, which was a world record for such systems at the time of creation. The complex also includes a titanium-sapphire laser with a peak power of about terawatt, as well as fiber-optic femtosecond lasers with an extremely short pulse duration.

AM Sergeev developed a new method for describing the operation of femtosecond lasers based on the theory of dissipative optical solitons. On its basis, new lasing regimes were predicted, which were realized later experimentally.

A. M. Sergeev is actively developing theoretical models of the processes of strongly nonlinear interaction of radiation from such superpowerful short-pulse sources with matter. He studied new nonlinear wave effects in such processes, in particular, the effect of radiation self-channeling based on ionization nonlinearity, as well as a strong adiabatic increase in the carrier frequency and frequencies of radiation harmonics. A. M. Sergeev developed the concept of generation of coherent attosecond pulses during the ionization of atoms by femtosecond pulses. Under his leadership, a number of works on the theoretical study of the processes of laser acceleration of ions and the generation of X-ray radiation on the basis of laser systems of petawatt peak power have been carried out.

In the 2010s, A.M.Sergeev proposed a project to create in Russia the most powerful XCELS laser in the world, which would be capable of generating pulses with a peak power of hundreds of petawatts. This project was included by the Government of the Russian Federation among 6 megascience projects for implementation in 2010-2020.

In addition to sources of high-power laser radiation, A.M. Sergeev also directed the joint work of a team of physicists and physicians aimed at creating and using instruments for optical tomography of biological tissues. These works included such areas as optical coherence tomography, optical diffusion tomography, diffusion fluorescence tomography, ultramicroscopy. It was shown that the imaging methods developed in the course of these works make it possible to diagnose oncological diseases.

Organizational work and teaching

A.M.Sergeev initiated the participation of Russian scientists in a number of major international scientific programs, including the LIGO observatory for detecting gravitational waves (he was one of the participants in the LIGO collaboration, who were awarded the 2016 Gruber Prize in Cosmology for this discovery), in the project of the prototype reactor for laser thermonuclear fusion HiPER, in the pan-European project for the creation of ultra-high-power laser sources and the study of matter in extreme states ELI (Extreme Light Infrastructure).

RAS President

In an interview with the correspondent of the magazine "In the world of science" he listed the main problems of science in Russia:

Science in Russia has not become the productive force of the innovative economy.
The number of invited reports from Russia at major international conferences is declining.
In leading international journals with the highest citation index, the number of articles by authors from Russia, especially with experimental results, is negligible.
Funding for the material base of science per researcher in Russia is 100 times less than in Japan.
The quality of training specialists in schools and universities in Russia is declining.

In a speech to the Ural scientists, he expressed his opinion on the directions of reforming science:

Science in Russia should lead and coordinate the strategy of scientific and technological development.
Funding for the RAS should be increased by 60 billion rubles a year.
We need large scientific projects of global significance.

A family

Wife - Marina Dmitrievna Chernobrovtseva, researcher at the IAP RAS.

Son Mikhail - employee of the UNN; daughter Ekaterina is a researcher at the IAP RAS.

Academic and honorary titles

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003)
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016)
Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (2017)
Honorary Doctor of Lomonosov Moscow State University (2019)

Awards and recognition

Publications

A. V. Kim, M. Yu. Ryabikin, A. M. Sergeev. From femtosecond to attosecond pulses // Phys. - 1999 .-- T. 169. - S. 58-66. - DOI: 10.3367 / UFNr.0169.199901h.0058.
A. A. Babin, A. M. Kiselev, K. I. Pravdenko, A. M. Sergeev, A. N. Stepanov, E. A. Khazanov. Experimental study of the effect of subterawatt femtosecond laser radiation on transparent dielectrics with axicon focusing //

Alexander Mikhailovich Sergeev(born August 2, Buturlino, Gorky Region, RSFSR, USSR) - Soviet and Russian physicist. President of the Russian Academy of Sciences since September 27, 2017.

Biography [ | ]

In 2001, he was elected Director of the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics and Optics and was appointed Deputy Director of the IAP RAS.

In 2012, he left the post of department director and became the first deputy director of the Institute for scientific work.

In 2015, he was elected director of the IAP RAS, the previous director, Alexander Litvak, at the same time became the scientific director of the institute. Under the leadership of A.M.Sergeev, the institute was reorganized into and in 2016 it joined as branches and, also located in Nizhny Novgorod.

On October 28, 2016 he was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Physical Sciences.

Scientific activity[ | ]

A. M. Sergeev is one of the leading Russian specialists in the field of laser physics, femtosecond optics, plasma physics and biophotonics.

In the 1990s, he organized work at the IAP RAS to create femtosecond laser sources. Under his leadership, a complex of such sources was created, including a laser based on a peak radiation power of hundreds of terawatts, which was a world record for such systems at the time of creation. The complex also includes a titanium-sapphire laser with a peak power of about terawatt, as well as fiber-optic femtosecond lasers with an extremely short pulse duration.

A. M. Sergeev is actively developing theoretical models of the processes of strongly nonlinear interaction of radiation from such superpowerful short-pulse sources with matter. He studied new nonlinear-wave effects in such processes, in particular, the effect of radiation based on ionization nonlinearity, as well as a strong adiabatic increase in the carrier frequency and harmonic frequencies of radiation. A. M. Sergeev developed the concept of generation of coherent attosecond pulses during the ionization of atoms by femtosecond pulses. Under his leadership, a number of works on the theoretical study of the processes of laser acceleration of ions and the generation of X-ray radiation on the basis of laser systems of petawatt peak power have been carried out.

In addition to sources of high-power laser radiation, A.M. Sergeev also directed the joint work of a team of physicists and physicians aimed at creating and using instruments for optical tomography of biological tissues. These works included such areas as optical coherence tomography, ultramicroscopy. It was shown that the imaging methods developed in the course of these works make it possible to diagnose oncological diseases.

Organizational work and teaching[ | ]

A.M.Sergeev initiated the participation of Russian scientists in a number of major international scientific programs, including the LIGO observatory for detecting gravitational waves (he was one of the participants in the LIGO collaboration, who were awarded the 2016 Gruber Prize in Cosmology for this discovery), in the project of a prototype reactor for laser thermonuclear fusion, in the pan-European project for the creation of ultra-powerful laser sources and the study of matter in extreme states ELI ().

RAS President [ | ]

In an interview with the correspondent of the magazine "In the world of science" he listed the main problems of science in Russia:

Science in Russia has not become the productive force of the innovative economy.
The number of invited reports from Russia at major international conferences is declining.
In leading international journals with the highest citation index, the number of articles by authors from Russia, especially with experimental results, is negligible.
Funding for the material base of science per researcher in Russia is 100 times less than in Japan.
The quality of training specialists in schools and universities in Russia is declining.

In a speech to the Ural scientists, he expressed his opinion on the directions of reforming science:

Science in Russia should lead and coordinate the strategy of scientific and technological development.
Funding for the RAS should be increased by 60 billion rubles a year.
We need large scientific projects of global significance.

A family [ | ]

Wife - Marina Dmitrievna Chernobrovtseva, researcher at the IAP RAS.

Son Mikhail - employee of the UNN; daughter Ekaterina is a researcher at the IAP RAS.

Academic and honorary titles[ | ]

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003)
Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016)
Foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (2017)
Honorary Doctor of Lomonosov Moscow State University (2019)

Awards and recognition[ | ]

Publications [ | ]

A. V. Kim, M. Yu. Ryabikin, A. M. Sergeev. From femtosecond to attosecond pulses // Phys. - 1999 .-- T. 169. - S. 58-66. - DOI: 10.3367 / UFNr.0169.199901h.0058.
A. A. Babin, A. M. Kiselev, K. I. Pravdenko, A. M. Sergeev, A. N. Stepanov, E. A. Khazanov. Experimental study of the effect of subterawatt femtosecond laser radiation on transparent dielectrics with axicon focusing // Phys. - 1999 .-- T. 169. - pp. 80--84. -

(4) Soviet and Russian physicist. President of the Russian Academy of Sciences since September 27, 2017. Specialist in the field of plasma physics, femtosecond optics, nonlinear dynamics of optical systems and highly sensitive optical measurements; Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2000), professor. Director of the Institute of Applied Physics (IAP) RAS from 2015 to 2017. Academician of RAS (2016; Corresponding Member 2003). Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1999) and the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation (2012). Has over 8000 citations of his works published in scientific journals. Hirsch index - 48.

"Biography"

A. M. Sergeev was born in 1955 in the village of Buturlino, Gorky Region. In 1977 he graduated from the Faculty of Radiophysics of the Gorky University.

Since 1977 he has been working at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the city of Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod).

"News"

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The head of the Academy of Sciences urged to cancel the exam

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Physicist Aleksandr Sergeev was elected Head of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The Russian Academy of Sciences has elected a new leader today. For the first time under the new rules. Physicist Alexander Sergeev presented his program the day before, like his competitors.

The President of the Russian Academy of Sciences could be elected today only on the second attempt. In the first round, none of the five candidates received the required majority - 50% of the vote plus one. Two candidates who received the greatest support entered the next round: acting scientific director of the Institute of Oceanology Robert Nigmatulin and director of the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Applied Physics Alexander Sergeev. As a result, RAS academicians gave preference to Sergeev with an overwhelming advantage.

Alexander Sergeev is the new President of the Russian Academy of Sciences

In the first round, Sergeev got 681 votes, his main opponent - the head of the Institute of Oceanology Robert Nigmatulin received 276 votes. In the second round, the balance of votes did not fundamentally change, and Alexander Sergeev became the new President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, having won a convincing victory.

Putin approved Alexander Sergeev as President of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Academician Alexander Sergeev elected as the new President of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences recalled the contribution of the Russian scientist to the Nobel Prize for Americans

The newly elected President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Sergeev, pointed to the contribution of Russian scientists to the detection of gravitational waves, for which this year was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He recalled the 1962 article

The head of the Russian Academy of Sciences proposed to create a fund to upgrade scientific equipment

Russian science needs a fund to renovate equipment and expensive installations, funds for it could be raised through a tax on raw materials enterprises, said the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Alexander Sergeev.

President of the Russian Academy of Sciences about the Russian trace in the Nobel Prize in Physics

Alexander Sergeev explained the essence of the unique discovery

Gravitational waves drew the Nobel Prize to their discoverers just a year and a half after the announcement of their capture. Moreover, all physicists, whom we did not ask on the eve of the announcement of the main scientific award, as one predicted the victory of a group of researchers from the international collaboration LIGO. Physicists Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish and Kip Thorne have experimentally proven the existence of gravitational waves. In this list, in my opinion, there should have been another surname of our compatriot Vladislav Pustovoit from the Moscow State Technical University. Bauman, after all, it was according to the method proposed by him and Mikhail Gertsenstein from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University that the Americans decided to catch gravitational waves. But, alas, for ideas, Nobel Prizes are almost never awarded, the main thing is the implementation of these ideas in practice. One of the participants in the LIGO project from the Russian side - Director of the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Applied Physics, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander SERGEEV - spoke about the details of the opening of the "MK".

The Russian Academy of Sciences may change the status

The leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences has changed. After the election of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, scientists elected a new composition of the Presidium, which included 79 academicians and corresponding members. They, led by President Alexander Sergeev, will lead the RAS for the next five years. Valery Charushin, director of the Institute of Organic Synthesis, again became the Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as the Chairman of the Ural Branch of the Academy of Sciences.

TASS-DOSSIER. On September 26, 2017, at the general meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), a physicist, director of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 62-year-old Alexander Sergeev, was elected president of the Academy. He will take office after being approved by the President of Russia. Alexander Sergeev will become the 22nd president of the Academy of Sciences in its entire history, the 10th elected and the third in recent history (since 1991).

Alexander Mikhailovich Sergeev was born on August 2, 1955 in the village of Buturlino, Gorky Region (now an urban-type settlement, Nizhny Novgorod Region).

In 1977 he graduated from the radiophysical faculty of the Gorky State University named after V.I. NI Lobachevsky (now - National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University named after NI Lobachevsky, UNN), specializing in radiophysics.

In 1982 at the Institute of Applied Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now - IAP of the Russian Academy of Sciences) he defended his Ph.D. thesis in physics and mathematics on the topic "Self-action and transformation of intense electromagnetic waves in magnetoactive plasma". In 2000, in the same place - a thesis of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (topic: "Nonlinear wave processes in the generation of ultrashort optical pulses and the interaction of strong optical fields with matter"). In 2003 he was elected a corresponding member, in 2016 - an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the Department of Physical Sciences (Physics and Astronomy) of the Academy of Sciences, member of the RAS Council on Space.

After graduating from the university, he was accepted as an intern-researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences (Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod). Then he worked as a junior (1979-1985), senior (1985-1991) researcher, head of a laboratory (1991-1994), head of a department (1994-2001). From 2001 to 2015, he held the position of Deputy Director of the IAP RAS, in 2001-2012 he also headed the department of the Institute.

From 2015 to the present v. - Director of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. At the same time, he is the head of the department of ultrafast processes and the head of the sector for modeling ultrafast optical processes of the Department of Nonlinear Dynamics and Optics of the Institute of Applied Physics. Concurrently - Professor of the Department of General Physics, Faculty of Radiophysics, UNN.

Leads a group of Russian scientists in the LIGO gravitational wave detection project in the United States. In 2016, the project participants were awarded the prestigious Gruber Prize in Cosmology, as well as the Prize in Fundamental Physics (established by Russian businessman Yuri Milner).

Member of the Scientific Coordination Council of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations and the Council of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Member of the editorial board of the journals "Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk" and "Izvestiya VUZov - Radiofizika".

In July 2017, he was registered as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was nominated by the Bureau of the Department of Physical Sciences, the Bureau of the Department of Energy, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics and Control Processes, the Bureau of the Department of Biological Sciences, the Presidium of the Ural Branch, as well as 240 members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, according to the official website of the Academy. On August 31, his candidacy was approved by the Russian government.

Alexander Sergeev is a scientist in the field of laser physics, femtosecond optics (optics of ultrashort laser pulses), the theory of nonlinear wave phenomena, plasma physics and biophotonics (studies the interaction of light with biological tissue). Under his leadership, the most powerful petawatt (10 to fifteenth power) laser complex in Russia was created at the IAP RAS, and new ways of using femtosecond radiation for processing materials and medicine were developed.

Author and co-author of over 350 scientific papers. Among them - "Toward an analytical theory of laser illuminators" (1980), "From femtosecond to attosecond pulses" (1999), "Terawatt femtosecond titanium-sapphire laser complex" (2001), "100-terawatt femtosecond laser based on parametric amplification" ( 2005), "Horizons of petawatt laser systems" (2011), "Raman laser with a picosecond pulse duration, operating in the eye-safe range" (2016), etc.

Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (1999), the prize of the government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2012). Awarded with the Order of Honor (2006).

He is married and has two children. Wife, Marina Dmitrievna Chernobrovtseva, is a researcher at the IAP RAS. Daughter Ekaterina - Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Researcher at the IAP RAS. My son Michael is an employee of the UNN.