Boris Sharkov#
| Membership Number: | 4250 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | RUSSIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.fair-center.eu |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - today Special representative of JINR DG in international research organizations
- 2017 - 2021 Vice-director of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research JINR-Dubna
- 2010 - 2016 Scientific Director, Chairman of the Management Board in Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe
- 2009 - 2010 Leader of FAIR joint core team, Division Leader and Geschäftsführer of GSI
- 2008 - 2009 Deputy Director for research at ITEP-Moscow
- 2007 - today Co-Director of the FAIR Russia Research Centre in Moscow
- 2005 - 2008 Director of ITEP-Moscow
- 2005 - today Full Professor at State University - MEPhI
- 1997 - 2005 Professor at Moscow Phys.-Technical Inst. (Technical University)
- 1999 - 2001 Guest scientist at RIKEN Japan, studies of the of intense heavy ion beams injection line for RIKEN (T.Katayama)
- 1998 - 2009 Project Leader of the ITEP-TWAC heavy ion synchrotron accelerator-accumulator complex
- 1997 - 2001 Leader of ITEP – IPN collaboration on heavy ion beam-plasma interaction experiments on tandem accelerator
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics of beam-plasma interaction
- Generation if high phase space density ion beams
- Laser produced plasmas
- Inertial confinement fusion
- Beam dynamics
- Applications of high intensity ion accelerators to fusion energy
- Experimental plasma physics
- Particle accelerators
- Generation of highly ionized ions in plasmas
Honours and Awards
- 1989 Member of Nuclear Society of Russia (Soviet Union)
- Winner of Presidential Stipendium for outstanding scientists of Russia 2001, 2003
- 2005 European Physical Society Board Member of Plasma Physics Division
- 2006 Corresponding member of Russian Academy of Sciences
- Winner of Presidential award for leaders of outstanding scientific schools of Russia 2006, 2008
- 2008 Winner of Veksler Prize of Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2008 FInsP Fellow at IOP, London
- 2010 Kurchatov medal of Rosatom
- 2010 Laureate of States Prize of Russian Government
- 2014 Honorary doctor from JINR
