Boris Yuriyevich Sharkov (

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: ''Boris Scharkow'', born 11 February 1950 in

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Biography

Boris Sharkov studied

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from 1967 to 1973 at Moscow Engineering Physics Institute ( MEPhI) at the Faculty of

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and

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. In 1979 he received his doctorate in

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. He organized a group for heavy-ion research in laser-produced plasma at ITEP, which deals with the development of source of highly charged ions for the ITEP accelerator. In 1991 he earned his second doctorate (Habilitation) in "Physics of the

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beams and

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." In 1999 he was awarded the title of Professor by the Supreme certifying commission of

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and since 2005 he holds a chair at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI. Since 1996 Boris Sharkov is a co-author and the head of the project of reconstruction of the ITEP accelerator: ITEP

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was upgraded into a heavy ion accelerator. In 1997 he was Vice Director and from 2005 to 2008 Director of the State Research Center ITEP in Moscow. Since 2009 he is a

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and a Scientific Managing Director of ''“ Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe”''. Boris Sharkov is a specialist in the field of physics of

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under extreme conditions, as well as in the field of accelerator physics. The main scientific results of Boris Sharkov are devoted to the problems of heavy ion fusion and the related studies of extreme states of matter under the impact of concentrated energy fluxes of heavy ions on the dense ionized matter. He is author and co-author of more than 200 publications, including four books and has three

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. Boris Sharkov is a member of the Nuclear Society of Russia, member of the editorial boards of three

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, member of the Scientific Councils of the State Corporation "

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" and

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; russian: Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к (РАН) ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across t ...

. From 2006 to 2012, he was a member of the board of

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. In 2006 he was elected to a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Boris Sharkov has won numerous awards: he is

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of the "State Prize of the Government of Russian Federation in the field of science and technology" and the winner of the Veksler price of Russian Academy of Sciences.Veksler price of RAN
/ref> In 2016 he was elected to be full member of Russian Academy of Sciences. From January 2017 he has a position of vice-director of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russian Federation. In this position he is representing JINR in numerous European research organizations (NuPECC, ESG PP, APECC, ...).

References

External links

Profile of Boris Sharkov
at the official website of RAN
Interview in the magazine "Expert"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharkov, Boris Yuriyevich 1950 births Living people Russian physicists Experimental physicists Scientists from Moscow