Alexey Gvishiani#
| Membership Number: | 4480 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | RUSSIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.gcras.ru |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2017 Acting chair of the Scientific Council, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Since 2014 Vice president of the Scientific Council, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Since 2014 Member of the Expert Council of the Russian Science Foundation
- Since 2008 Deputy Academician-Secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Earth Sciences Division and Chair of the RF IUGG Committee
- Since 2005 Director and Chairman of the Scientific Council, Geophysical Center, RAS (GC RAS)
- 2002 – 2006 Vice President of CODATA (Committee on Data for Science and Technology, ICSU)
- 1999 - 2005 Scientific leader of the EU Information Society Technologies (IST) program in the former USSR countries
- 1999 – 2004 Deputy Director General, the Schmidt United Institute of Physics of the Earth, RAS
- 1996 – 2006 Vice-Chair of the World Data Centers (WDC) Panel of the International Council for Science (ICSU)
- 1996 – 2003 Vice President of the European Mediterranean seismological center (EMSC/CSEM)
Fields of Scholarship
- Geophysics
- Geoinformatics
- Magnetic field
- Strong earthquake-prone areas and seismic zonation
- System Analysis
- Discrete mathematics and earth sciences data mining
- Functional analysis. Group representations theory
- Information society technologies
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Russian Geographical Society Fellow
- 2012 Foreign Member of the Romanian Academy of Engineering and Technical Sciences
- 2011 Full member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)
- 2006 Corresponding Member of RAS
- 2006 Doctor Honoris Causa of the National Technological University of Ukraine
- 2003 Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
- 2009 RF Order of Friendship
- 1997 Medal “850th Anniversary of Moscow”
- 1992 – 2012 Full Professor at the Institute of Physics of the Earth, Paris (Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris)
- 1989 – 2000 Full Professor at the Department of mechanics and mathematics, Moscow State University
- 1984 Associated professor at the Department of mechanics and mathematics, Moscow State University
- 1971 Medal “50th Anniversary of the Mongolian Рeople’s Revolution”
