vladimir e. fortov
Vladimir E. Fortov
doctor honoris causa
Vladimir E. Fortov
Investido el 23 de Jun del 2016, en el acto de Investidura como doctor honoris causa del Dr. Vladimir Fortov, nuevos doctores y doctoras por el rector de la Universitat Politècnica de València, Francisco J. Mora Mas.
Vladimir E. Fortov
Russian physicist, specializing in thermal and plasma physics. He directed the Institute of Extreme States Thermophysics and presided over the Russia Academy of Sciences. He was Minister of Science and Technology and received multiple academic honors.
Russian physicist and scientist, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Vladimir Fortov’s career has focused on plasma physics and the physics of high energy density systems, with pioneering results and outstanding achievements in the generation and analysis of matter under extreme conditions.
He studied Physics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, where he earned his second doctoral degree in 1976. He has worked at and led research groups within the Institute of Chemical Physics of the RAS in Chernogolovka, while also working—since 1982—at the Institute for High Temperatures, where he was later appointed director.
From 1993, he served as President of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the governmental agency responsible for research funding, and from 1996, as head of the State Committee for Science and Technology. He was appointed Minister of Science and Technology in 1998.
In 2013, he became President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was named a corresponding academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain.
Among his many honors are the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1986), the USSR State Prize (1988), the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997), the Order of Alexander Nevsky (2013), and the Order of Merit for the Fatherland (Class II) (2016).
Internationally, he has received the Hannes Alfvén Prize (2003), the UNESCO Albert Einstein Medal (2005), and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2006). He has also been named Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (2001), Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Engineering (2002), Foreign Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (2003), Foreign Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (2004), and Member of the International Advisory Committee for the ESA IMPRESS project (2005).
Dr. Vladimir Fortov has held numerous positions of responsibility through which he has demonstrated a broad and deep understanding of the key challenges facing science and technology.
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