Boris Yuriyevich Sharkov

Boris Jurjewitsch Zharkov (Russian Борис Юрьевич Шарков, English transcription Boris Sharkov; born February 11, 1950 in Moscow ) is a Russian physicist.

Biography

Boris studied Zharkov 1967-1973 Physics at the Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute ( MEPhI ) at the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Physics. In 1979 he received his doctorate in plasma physics.

At the invitation of ITEP he organized the group for Heavy Ion Research in laser-produced plasmas, which deals with the development of the source of highly charged ions for the ITEP accelerator. In 1991, he earned his second doctorate ( Habilitation ) in " Physics of ion beam of charged particle beams and accelerator physics." In 1999 he was awarded the title of professor of Supreme certifying commission of Russia and since 2005 he holds a chair at the National Research University MEPhI. Since 1996, Boris Zharkov a co-author and director of the project of modernization of the ITEP accelerator: the ITEP proton accelerator is to be converted 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 2010 he is a scientific executive director of the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Europe.

Boris Zharkov is a specialist in the field of physics of matter in extreme states, as well as in the field of accelerator physics. The main scientific results of Boris Zharkov are devoted to the problems of heavy ion fusion and the related studies of extreme states of matter under the influence of concentrated energy fluxes of heavy ions in the dense ionized matter. He is author and co- author of about 200 publications, among which are four books and three patents.

Boris Zharkov is a member of the Nuclear Society of Russia, member of the editorial boards of three scientific journals, member of the Scientific Councils of the State Corporation "Rosatom" and the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2006 to 2012, he was a member of the board of Plasma Physics of the European Physical Society.

In 2006 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Boris Zharkov has won numerous awards, now he is a laureate of the " State Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology " and the winner of the Veksler price of the Russian Academy of Sciences.