Joint  Institute  for  Nuclear  Research

Director of  Joint  Institute  for  Nuclear  Research
(January 1, 2006 - 1 May 2010)

Alexei Norairovich Sissakian - Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Professor.

Born:  14 October 1944, Moscow

Education:

1962 – 1968  Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics
1970  Candidate of Physics and Mathematics («Direct paths approximation in quantum field theory and multiple particle production at high energies»)
1980  Doctor of Physics and Mathematics («Multicomponent approach in the theory of multiple hadron production»)
1986  Professor, Theoretical Physics
Since 1992,  Full Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering Sciences
Since 1994,  Full Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
Since 2003,  Member of the European Academy of Sciences (Brussels)
Since 2003,  Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia
Since 2006,  Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Since 2008,  Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Since 2009,  First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Pugwash Committee under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professional activities:

1968 – 1978  Trainee researcher, junior scientist, scientist, senior scientist of the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR
1978 – 1979  Head of a sector at the Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR
1979 – 1989  JINR Chief Scientific Secretary, Head of the Department of Science, JINR Directorate
1989 – 2005  JINR Vice-Director
2003 – 2007  Director of the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics
1.01.2006 – 1.05.2010  Director of the JINR   (see "Press-release from 17.03.2005")

Educational activities:

Since 1989,  Professor of MIREA (part time job)
Since 1992,  Professor of the Lomonosov MSU
Since 1992,  Scientific Leader of the Chair of Elementary Particle Physics at the Moscow Physics and Technology Institute
Since 1994,  Vice-President of the International University of Nature, Society, Man «Dubna»
Since 2003,  Head of the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the International University of Nature, Society, Man «Dubna»
Member of the Board on Particles and Fields of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), the International Committee on Future Accelerators (ICFA), the European Committee on Future Accelerators (ECFA), STC No. 3 of the Ministry of Atomic Energy (Russia), the Coordinating Committee on ISTC in Fundamental Research of the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology (Russia), specialized scientific councils and editorial boards of scientific publications; deputy chief editor of the journal «Physics of Elementary Particles and Atomic Nuclei» (Particles & Nuclei), chief editor of the journal «Particles and Nuclei, Letters», etc.

Scientific interests:
Elementary Particle Physics, methods in theoretical and mathematical physics

Publications:  Author of more than 350 scientific papers and 3 inventions

Literary activities:
Author of 5 collections of poems, publications of poems and essays in periodicals

Prizes, honorary titles, state prizes:

Prize of Lenin Komsomol in science and technology, Order of Honour and Friendship (Russia), orders and medals of JINR Member States, medal "Author of scientific discoveries" named after P.L. Kapitsa of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, title of Honorary Doctor of Russian and foreign universities

Source of the information:
Information Bulletin "JINR News" 2 /2006