BASKO Mikhail Mikhailovich

Home address: Marii Uljanovoi 6, Apt. 20, 119331 Moscow, Russia. Tel.+Fax: (+7 499) 138 51 23; e-mail: basko@itep.ru

Present position: leading researcher at Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Miusskays Square 4, 125047 Moscow, Russia. Tel.: +7 499 250 79 08; Fax: +7 499 972 07 37.

Education, scientific degrees:

• 24.06.1965: graduation from high school (school No. 25 in Zhitomir, Ukraine, USSR);
• 01.09.1965: admission to the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow region);
• 19.05.1971: Master of Science (University degree) upon graduation from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
• 04.10.1974: PhD in theoretical astrophysics from the Institute for Space Research (Moscow, Academy of Sciences of the USSR);
• 12.04.1996: Doctor of Science in theoretical physics from the Institute of High Temperatures (Moscow, Russian Academy of Sciences).

Work experience:

• 01.10.1974 - 02.12.1979: junior researcher at the Institute for Space Research (Moscow) in the theoretical group headed by academician Ya.B. Zel'dovich; research in theoretical astrophysics: theory of radiation transport in cosmic surroundings, theory of X-ray stars in binary stellar systems.
• 03.12.1979 - 19.07.2012: senior, leading researcher at the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Moscow); research in the physics of high energy density in matter, theory of controlled thermonuclear fusion with inertial confinement (ICF), theory of ICF targets driven by intense beams of heavy ions.
• 20.07.2012 - present time: leading researcher at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow); research in the physics and mathematical modeling of high-energy-density states in matter.

Teaching experience:

• 01.09.2000 - present time: lecturing for the 4th-6th year students at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (courses on theoretical foundations of ICF, on self-similar solutions in fluid dynamics); supervision of postgraduate students.

Visiting terms abroad:

• 01.09.1991 - 03.10.1992: visiting researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ), Garching, Germany;
• 04.10.1992 - 03.10.1993: Visiting Fellow at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA;
• 01.11.1995 - 31.10.1996: visiting researcher at MPQ, Garching, Germany;
• 03.12.1996 - 31.03.1997: visiting professor at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan;
• 22.10.1997 - 29.10.1999: visiting researcher at the CEA Cadarache Nuclear Center, Aix-en-Provence, France;
• 04.01.2000 - 30.04.2000: visiting researcher at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt, Germany;
• 01.03.2001 - 31.05.2001: visiting researcher at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany;
• 01.09.2001 - 28.02.2002: visiting researcher at MPQ, Garching, Germany;
• 01.10.2002 - 31.12.2002: visiting researcher at GSI, Darmstadt, Germany;
• 01.02.2004 - 31.05.2004: visiting researcher at MPQ, Garching, Germany;
• 01.02.2005 - 31.05.2005: visiting professor at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
• 05.12.2010 - 31.03.2011:: visiting professor at the Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
• years 2000 - 2010: 3-4 months each year, visiting researcher at the Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenforschung (GSI), Darmstadt and the University of Frankfurt, Germany.
• years 2011 - 2013: EMMI visiting professor for 3 months each year at GSI, Darmstadt and the University of Frankfurt, Germany.

Publications: about 110 papers in scientific journals, numerous presentations at international conferences and symposia.

Languages: Russian, English (full command), German (fluent, spoken + written), French (broken).