International board

MIPT

1961 - started his employment at the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy;
1971-1978 - Director of the Magnetic Field Laboratory at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (since 1991 - State Science Center Troitsk Institute for Innovation and Thermonuclear Research); Former Director of the I. V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy;
1972 - Founder and Head of MIPT’s Subdepartment of Plasma Energetics, Department of Aerophysics and Space Research;
1975 - Head of the Controlled Thermonuclear Reactor Development Program;
1975 - 1976 - founded MIPT’s Department of Fundamental Physics and Energetics (FPE);
1976 - 1986 - Dean of the FPE Department;
1986 - Ph.D. adviser at the FPE Department;
1978 - 1991 - Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR;
1991 - 1996 - Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
1992 - present - President of the Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute;
1989 - Foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences;
1992 - President of the Russian Company for Shelf Development (ZAO Rosshelf);
1993 - founded the Russian-American Joint Venture BDM to promote Russian patent and license marketing.
Scientific Secretary at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Subdivision of Information and Nanotechnologies, President of the Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute, member of the Russian Pugwash Committee under the RAS Presidium, member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Physics Subdivision), Russian Academy of Education, and NGO Academy for Security, Defence and Law Enforcement.
Since 2010 serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Council at the Skolkovo Foundation.

Prominent academic in the fields of plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion.
Since 1973 - Research Lead in controlled nuclear fusion studies in the USSR. Founder of ITER, an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project (1977).
1992-2001 - D&D Council Chair at ITER.
Since 2006 - Russian Representative at the ITER International Board, 2010 - 2012 - ITER Council Chair.
Lead of Russian research as part of INPRO – International Project on Innovative Nuclear Reactors and Fuel Cycles. Proposed and tested the new type of high-powered pulsed MHD generators, which were later used in deep refraction within the Earth’s crust.
Lead of scientific research of gas and industrial lasers, as well as unique inductive energy storage units, particularly the world’s largest energy complex TIN-900, designed to generate high-voltage currents and magnetic fields in nuclear fusion reactors.