Alexander Sergeev Academy of Sciences. Alexander Sergeyev is the new president of the wounds. On the state of affairs in Russian science

Alexander Sergeev was born on August 2, 1955 in the village of Buturlino, Nizhny Novgorod Region. In 1977 he graduated from the Radiophysics Faculty of the Nikolai Lobachevsky National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University with a degree in radiophysics.

In 1982, at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he defended his thesis for a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences on the topic "Self-action and transformation of intense electromagnetic waves in a magnetoactive plasma." In 2000, in the same place - the thesis of a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences. In 2003, Alexander Mikhailovich was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

After graduating from the university, Sergeev was accepted as a trainee researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Nizhny Novgorod. Since 1979, for seven years, he worked as a junior researcher. In 1985 he became a senior research fellow. From 1991 to 1994, Alexander Mikhailovich served as head of the laboratory. In 1994 he was appointed head of the department.

From 2001 to 2015, Sergeev served as Deputy Director of the IAP RAS. From 2001 to 2012, he also headed the department of the institute. Since 2016 he has been an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Member of the Department of Physical Sciences in Physics and Astronomy of the Academy of Sciences, member of the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Since 2015, he has served as director of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. At the same time, he was 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 IAP. 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 Fundamental Physics Prize. Member of the Scientific Coordinating Council of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations and the Council of the Foundation for Fundamental Research. Member of the editorial board of the journals "Uspekhi fizicheskikh nauk" and "Izvestia VUZ - Radiophysics".

In July 2017, he was registered as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. 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. Sergeyev's candidacy was approved by the Russian government on August 31, 2017. In September of the same year, Alexander Sergeev won the election of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Alexander Mikhailovich became the 22nd president of the Academy of Sciences in its entire history.

Under the leadership of Sergeev, the most powerful petawatt laser complex in Russia was created at the IAP RAS, new methods of using femtosecond radiation for processing materials and medicine were developed. He is a scientist in the field of laser physics, femtosecond optics: optics of ultrashort laser pulses, the theory of nonlinear wave phenomena; explores the interaction of light with biological tissue.

On March 14, 2019, Alexander Sergeev was unanimously accepted as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Moscow Polytechnic Museum.

Awards and Recognition of Alexander Sergeev

State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (1999) for work on optical tomography of biological tissues.
Order of Honor (2006) for achievements in the field of creating components and devices for high-power laser systems.
Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2012) for work on the creation of a petawatt laser complex.
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (as part of the LIGO collaboration) (2016).
Officer of the Order of Academic Palms, France (2018).
Laureate of the international medal "For contribution to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology" awarded by UNESCO (2018).

TASS-DOSIER. 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 Radiophysics Faculty of the Gorky State University named after M.V. N. I. Lobachevsky (now - National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N. I. Lobachevsky, UNN) with a degree in radiophysics.

In 1982 at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now - IAP of the Russian Academy of Sciences) he defended his thesis for a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences on the topic "Self-action and transformation of intense electromagnetic waves in a magnetically active plasma." In 2000, he also received a thesis for a 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 Physical Sciences Division (Physics and Astronomy) of the Academy of Sciences, member of the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

After graduating from the university, he was accepted as a trainee researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (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 served as Deputy Director of the IAP RAS, in 2001-2012 he also headed the department of the Institute.

From 2015 to 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 IAP. 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 Coordinating 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 "Izvestia VUZov - Radiophysics".

In July 2017, he was registered as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was nominated by the Bureau of the Physical Sciences Division, the Bureau of the Division of Energy, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics and Control Processes, the Bureau of the Division 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 government of the Russian Federation.

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 (explores the interaction of light with biological tissue). Under his leadership, the most powerful petawatt (10 to the fifteenth power, or a billion megawatts) laser complex in Russia was created at the IAP RAS, and new methods of using femtosecond radiation for processing materials and medicine were developed.

Author and co-author of more than 350 scientific papers. Among them - "On the 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), "SRS 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 the Order of Honor (2006).

Married, has two children. His wife, Marina Dmitrievna Chernobrovtseva, is a researcher at the IAP RAS. Daughter Ekaterina - Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Researcher at IAP RAS. Son Mikhail is an employee of UNN.

At which presidential candidates made their election programs. After the speeches of the candidates, the members of the RAS discussed the nominated candidates. Academician Sergeev received the greatest support. Former president of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Fortov, academicians Valery Rubakov and Yuri Solomonov were called to vote for him.

Gennady Krasnikov was supported by the Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov. Academician Eric Galimov spoke for Robert Nigmatulin. Among others, Yevgeny Kablov was supported by Academician Alexei Kontorovich, and Vladislav Panchenko was supported by Academician Rem Petrov.

Prior to the start of the election week and during the first day of the general meeting, many members of the RAS expressed fear that the elections could be disrupted due to the fact that a quorum was not reached. However, by the evening of September 25, acting. President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Kozlov said that the turnout would be high.

Evgeny Kablov, General Director of the All-Russian Research Institute of Aviation Materials (VIAM), Gennady Krasnikov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Mikron, Robert Nigmatulin, Scientific Director of the P.P. Shirshova, Vladislav Panchenko, Scientific Director of the Institute of Laser and Information Technologies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Alexander Sergeev, Director of the Federal Research Center of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The former head of the RAS was Academician Vladimir Fortov.

Biography of the elected President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev

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 Radiophysics Faculty of the Gorky State University named after M.V. N. I. Lobachevsky (now - National Research Nizhny Novgorod State University named after N. I. Lobachevsky, UNN) with a degree in radiophysics.

In 1982 at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now - IAP of the Russian Academy of Sciences) he defended his thesis for a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences on the topic "Self-action and transformation of intense electromagnetic waves in a magnetically active plasma." In 2000, he also received a thesis for a 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 Physical Sciences Division (Physics and Astronomy) of the Academy of Sciences, member of the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

After graduating from the university, he was accepted as a trainee researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (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 served as Deputy Director of the IAP RAS, in 2001-2012 he also headed the department of the Institute.

From 2015 to 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 IAP. 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 Coordinating 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 "Izvestia VUZov - Radiophysics".

In July 2017, he was registered as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was nominated by the Bureau of the Physical Sciences Division, the Bureau of the Division of Energy, Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics and Control Processes, the Bureau of the Division 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 government of the Russian Federation.

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 (explores the interaction of light with biological tissue). Under his leadership, the most powerful petawatt (10 to the fifteenth power, or a billion megawatts) laser complex in Russia was created at the IAP RAS, and new methods of using femtosecond radiation for processing materials and medicine were developed.

Author and co-author of more than 350 scientific papers. Among them - "On the 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), "SRS 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 the Order of Honor (2006).

Married, has two children. His wife, Marina Dmitrievna Chernobrovtseva, is a researcher at the IAP RAS. Daughter Ekaterina - Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Researcher at IAP RAS. Son Michael - employee

Academician Alexander Sergeev won by a large margin in the second round of the election of the head of the Academy of Sciences

Alexander Sergeev. Photo: Vladimir Afanasiev / Parliamentary Newspaper

Director of the Federal Research Center of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev (Nizhny Novgorod) has become the new president of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In total, five academic candidates competed for the post of head of the country's main scientific organization. In addition to Sergeev, these are General Director of the All-Russian Research Institute of Aviation Materials Evgeny Kablov (Moscow), Director of the Research Institute of Molecular Electronics and the Mikron Plant Gennady Krasnikov (Zelenograd), Acting Scientific Director of the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Robert Nigmatulin (Moscow) and Chairman of the Board of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research Vladislav Panchenko. The applicants' multi-page programs were posted on the RAS website in advance, and last Monday the candidates defended their theses at the General Meeting of the Academy of Sciences.

The academy should have a different status

All five candidates agreed on one thing - they are not satisfied with the status of an ordinary federal institution, which the academy received as a result of the 2013 reform. This position, they noted, does not correspond to the tasks of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which means that it should be changed to the status of the “State Academy of Sciences”. The candidates were also sure that the current delimitation of the functions of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations (FASO), to which the academic institutes were transferred, was unreasonable. The Academy, in their opinion, should lead all the scientific and educational organizations of the country. In it, on the basis of the FASO apparatus, a Department of Financial and Economic Affairs should be created with a head appointed by the Government of the Russian Federation.

And the main thesis, voiced in all programs, is that the sector of academic research should not be reduced, as has been the case in recent years, otherwise Russia risks falling into complete technological dependence on developed countries.

According to its Charter, a person of any age can apply for the post of head of the Academy of Sciences. The President of the Russian Academy of Sciences is elected for five years and cannot hold this position for more than two consecutive terms. In case of early termination of his powers, the duties of the head of the academy are assigned to one of his deputies.

They wanted to elect the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences back in March of this year, but the elections were disrupted - several candidates were not satisfied with the procedure for holding them. Only by September disagreements. The nomination of candidates was democratic - both scientific departments of the Russian Academy of Sciences and initiative groups of scientists proposed "their people" (the group should have included at least 50 people).

Previously, the name of the applicant recommended by the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences was the first on the ballot papers. The candidates are now listed in alphabetical order. To win, it was necessary to gain more than half of the votes of electoral members of the RAS. The voting was secret, each participant could vote for only one candidate.

On the eve of the elections, Acting President of the Academy of Sciences Valery Kozlov predicted that it was unlikely that everything would be done in one round, because there were “serious speeches” on each program at the General Meeting. Although, in general, the proposals of the candidates were similar, and the academicians had to focus more on the scientific achievements of the applicants, their experience and managerial merits.

When choosing a new president, we must pay attention to the fact that he must be a person who enjoys both our respect and the respect of the authorities.

And the second round really took place. Academicians entered it Alexander Sergeev, who received 681 votes in the first round, and Robert Nigmatulin, which accounted for 276 votes. A total of 1,596 ballots were handed out, and at least 799 votes were required to win.

Sergeyev's candidacy was supported by the former president of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Monday Vladimir Fortov.

“When choosing a new president, we must pay attention to the fact that he must be a person who enjoys both our respect and the respect of the authorities,” he said.

The ex-head of the Russian Academy of Sciences called Sergeev a world-famous scientist who made a great contribution to the creation of technology that helped an international group of scientists detect the presence of gravitational waves, which is considered one of the main discoveries in the history of science. Vladimir Fortov was also praised by the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Applied Physics, which is actively engaged in defense work and is cooperating with the Russian federal nuclear center in Sarov, headed by Alexander Sergeev. Fortov admitted that in the last elections, many wanted to vote for him, but he, if he could, would have given them to Sergeyev.

According to the results of the second round, Alexander Sergeev won - he scored 1045 votes. 412 participants voted for Robert Nigmatulin.

Alexander Sergeev is very authoritative among physicists

So, who is he - the new president of the Academy of Sciences? Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Sergeev was born in 1955. In 1977 he graduated from the Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) State University. N. I. Lobachevsky with a degree in radiophysics. From this year to the present, he has been working at the Institute of Applied Physics, since 2001 - Deputy Director for Research, since 2015 - Director of the Institute.

Since 2016, he has been the head of the Federal Research Center, formed by joining the Institute for Physics of Microstructures of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Mechanical Engineering Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2003 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2016 - a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences with a degree in physics and astronomy.

Alexander Sergeev is a leading scientist in the field of laser physics, femtosecond optics, the theory of nonlinear wave phenomena, plasma physics and biophotonics, the author of more than 350 scientific papers with a total number of citations of more than 8000 and an h-index of 48. Sergeev and his co-workers performed fundamental work on the theory of nonlinear interaction optical fields of ultrashort duration with matter, new physical phenomena in femtosecond optics and physics of superstrong fields were predicted and studied, unique sources of ultrashort pulsed laser radiation were created and their new applications were demonstrated. Under his leadership, a modern femtosecond optics center was created at the IAP RAS, which includes a number of facilities, including the most powerful in the country and one of the most powerful in the world, a petawatt laser complex based on parametric amplification of light. For the work on the creation of this complex, Alexander Sergeev, as part of the team of authors, was awarded the Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology in 2012. The results achieved in this work form the basis of the project to create the world's most powerful sub-exawatt XCELS laser, which is included by the Government of the Russian Federation among six mega-science projects to be implemented in our country in the current decade.

Sergeyev heads an interdepartmental team of physicists and physicians, which has demonstrated the wide possibilities of methods for biomedical diagnostics, in particular, albums of optical images of the internal structure of human tissues in normal and at various stages of oncological diseases have been created for the first time. These pioneering works were awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology in 1999.

Alexander Sergeev successfully solves, within the existing legal restrictions, the actual organizational problems of academic science in cooperation with the authorities and the Russian Academy of Sciences. The organization of the Federal Research Center of the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, carried out under his leadership, is one of the most successful projects of this kind, which contributed to the expansion of joint scientific work of the joint institutes without violating the basic principles of their independence. Alexander Mikhailovich was the initiator of the participation of Russian scientists and the representative of our country in a number of major international programs. He represents Russia in the ICUIL International Committee on Super Powerful Lasers and was elected Vice-Chairman of this organization.

We will need the consolidation of the scientific, primarily academic community, the search for and implementation of new forms of organization of science in the country, the constructive interaction of science with society, business and government.

In his policy statement, Alexander Sergeev claims that as a result of the reforms of 2013, Russian academic science was on the verge of disaster: “Instead of a destroyed academic structure, the country today has not been offered anything even remotely approaching the RAS in terms of the effectiveness of scientific activity, in terms of international authority. Attempts to transfer fundamental science to universities and to various established "development institutions" also did not solve the problem of the country's technological development. Thus, now Russia is faced with a choice: either to continue moving along a given trajectory, increasingly reducing the sector of academic research and falling into technological, and in the future, political dependence on developed countries, or to find and implement new ways of developing domestic science, setting itself the goal of becoming one of the technological leaders”.

But the academician believes that Russia has a chance to get out of this crisis. The fundamental conditions for this, according to Sergeev, are the restoration of the leading role of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the implementation of the country's scientific and technical policy and the preservation of the democratic principles of the organization of the academy.

“We will need the consolidation of the scientific, primarily academic community, the search for and implementation of new forms of organization of science in the country, the constructive interaction of science with society, business and government. Interaction based on trust and respect for each other,” said Alexander Sergeev.

The state should increase support for science at times

“Alexander Mikhailovich is a relatively young, very energetic leader,” the scientific secretary of the Federal Research Center of the Institute of Applied Physics told Parliamentary Newspaper Igor Koryukin. - He came to the institute in the year of its foundation as a trainee researcher, went through all the stages of a scientific career. A remarkable scientist, known both in Russia and in the world. His main specialty is "laser physics", in which he and his colleagues had many pioneering works. He was nominated as a presidential candidate by the Department of Physical Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the nomination was supported by the Ural Branch of the Academy. We hope that, as he promised, for some time he will combine the leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the leadership of our institute.”

Parlamentskaya Gazeta asked to comment on the course of the elections and the tasks that the new head of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Education and Science, should first of all solve:

“We in the committee opposed the new electoral law. This is the law of distrust of all to all. Thanks to him, the government weeded out some of the candidates who do not suit him, but who enjoy authority in the scientific community, for example, Academician Chereshnev. In addition, I am not satisfied with the norm according to which the head of the academy, elected and even supported by the Government, may not be approved by the President of the country. But I hope that the bad law did not prevent the academicians from choosing a worthy leader. As for the tasks, the first of them is to provide the scientific foundations for Russia's technological breakthrough. Here is the number given Alexei Kudrin: in South Korea, 478 robots are produced per 10 thousand people per year, in China - 36, and we have two. I will add that Russian science, like education, is extremely bureaucratized, it's time to end this. And the state should increase support for science at times.”

First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship, First Vice President of the Union of Mechanical Engineers of Russia, first of all congratulated Alexander Sergeev on his convincing victory in the election of the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences: “I am convinced that, thanks to his experience and knowledge, the Academy will finally come out of that difficult unstable situation in which I have been recently.

According to the deputy, one cannot calmly accept the fact that, according to the expert council of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2016 only seven percent of Russian scientific projects corresponded to the world level, and many did not represent scientific novelty at all. In addition, today one of the main problematic issues is the low level of implementation of the results of both fundamental and applied research into practice. This is despite the fact that Russian science has a huge untapped potential.

“The real sector of the economy needs to develop images of fundamentally new products that correspond to the next technological order of products. Breakthrough ideas in relation to the military-industrial complex are especially in demand. We also expect new advances in the development of the digital economy with a focus on new software developments in the most significant areas of our development. For this, today, in my opinion, a comprehensive program is needed to obtain outstanding scientific results, create new materials, technologies and products, and create conditions and mechanisms for their commercialization,” concluded Vladimir Gutenev.