Dmitri I. Diakonov#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 3114 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | RUSSIA |
Dmitri Diakonov passed away December 26, 2012.
Positions Held
- Head of the High Energy Theory Department and Deputy Director of the Theory Division, Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI)
- Professor, Academic University of Physics and Technology, St. Petersburg
- 2005 – : Deputy Director of the Theory Division at PNPI
- 1997 – 2005: Professor at Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA), Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1993 – 96: Professor at the St. Petersburg Technical University
- 1973 – 96: Graduate student, Junior, Senior, Leading Researcher at PNPI, Head of the PNPI High Energy Theory Department
Fields of Scholarship
- Theory and phenomenology of the instanton vacuum in QCD
- Chiral Quark-Soliton Model of baryons
- Mechanisms of colour confinement
- Formulation of the Yang--Mills theory in terms of dual gauge invariant variables
Honours and Awards
- 1992: A. v. Humboldt Research Award (Germany) for “outstanding achievements in the field of theoretical physics'”
- 1995 and 2006: Fellowships for the Research in the Priority Area by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- 1993-94 and 1995-96: “Outstanding Scientist of Russia”, President's of Russia stipend
- 1997-2002: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences in association with the Carlsberg Foundation granted free dwelling at the “residence of honour” (the “Academy Villa” where Niels Bohr lived)
- 2005 and 2007: A. v. Humboldt Research Award Re-invitation, Bochum, Germany
- 2009: Governor's of St. Petersburg region Research Award
- 2008-2010: Mercator Professorship by DFG at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
