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Alexander Sergeev was appointed the RAS Director

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Alexander Sergeev was appointed the RAS Director


26.09.2017

Alexander Scherbak/TASSAcademic Alexander Sergeev was appointed the head of the Russian Academy of Science, TASS reports. 1045 voices have voted for him in opposition to Robert Nigmatulin for whom 412 academics have voted.

Before this appointment Alexander Sergeev has been Director of the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Applied Physics for three years. Sergeev specializes in laser physics, femtosecond optics, non-linear waves theory, of plasma physics and biophotonics. He is a full member of RAS since October 2016.

Sergheev has impressive portfolio comprising more than 300 scientific papers. The scientist and his collaborators predicted and examined new physical phenomena in femtosecond optics and ultrahigh field physics. Under his leadership a modern femtosecond optics center was created at IAP RAS, which comprises a number of facilities, including the petawatt laser system based on parametric light amplification. Creation of compact accelerators of charged particles, micro and nano modification of matter for material processing, and optical bioimaging have been demonstrated under Sergeev's supervision.

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