PERSONAL DATA
Date/Place of Birth: March 01, 1968; Tbilisi, Georgia
Citizenship: Russian
Marital Status: Married, two children
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Application of high resolution neutron diffraction for: - investigation of residual stress, texture, phase content, microstress and particle size effects; - neutron diffractometer optimization and sample environment development; |
EDUCATION
April 2002 | Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics. Thesis title: “Investigation of internal mechanical stresses by neutron diffraction method” |
April 1993 | Diploma of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in the field of Solid State Physics. Thesis title: "Neutron diffraction study of the structural phase transition in copper ferrite CuFe2O4" Certificate of the Training Centre of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) for additional educational course "Condensed Matter Physics by Nuclear Methods" |
June 1985 | School-leaving certificate: secondary physical-mathematical school (Tbilisi) |
WORK EXPERIENCE
July 2002 - Present | research scientist in the GKSS research centre (Geesthacht, Germany) and in the Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics of the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel |
Nov. 1998 - July 2002 | instrument responsible for stress experiments on HRFD and FSD neutron diffractometers in FLNP JINR (Dubna, Russia) - scientific coordinator of the project on construction of the new Fourier Stress Diffractometer (FSD) at the IBR-2 pulsed reactor in FLNP JINR - junior researcher in FLNP JINR (Dubna, Russia) |
Apr. 1993 - Nov. 1998 | junior researcher in the Neutron Research Laboratory of the Institute for Nuclear Research of Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) at the same time permanently worked in Condensed Matter Department of the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) - instrument responsible for stress experiments on the HRFD diffractometer - participant of the joint Russian-German project on the construction of the equipment for residual stress studies on the high resolution Fourier diffractometer HRFD at the IBR-2 reactor in FLNP JINR - participant of the INTAS project Nr.94-3239 "Calibration of volume residual stress measurements by neutron diffraction technique and applications" |
GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
Aug. 1999 - Aug. 2000 | INTAS young scientist fellowship grant YSF98-161 for the research on residual stress analysis by neutron diffraction |
Apr. 1997 | First prize winner of the 2nd competition of research work of the JINR young scientists on condensed matter physics |
Sept. - Nov. 2001 Nov. - Dec. 1996 |
Fellowships at EADQ Department of the Fraunhofer Institute for Non-destructive Testing (IzfP) (Dresden, Germany) - X-ray, ultrasonic and magnetic methods for stress analysis |
OTHER ACTIVITIES
Nov. 2001 Nov. 1999 |
Experiments for residual stress studies on D1A diffractometer (ILL, Grenoble) |
1997 | Member of the organizing committee of international conference "Neutron Texture and Stress Analysis", Dubna, Russia, 23/06/97-26/06/97 |
1996 | Scientific secretary of the INTAS project Nr. 94-3239 "Calibration of volume residual stress measurements by neutron diffraction technique and applications" collaborator’s meeting and international workshop "Residual Stresses and Neutron Diffraction", Dubna, Russia, 24/05/96-26/05/96 |
1994 - 1995 | Scientific coordinator of user policy in FLNP JINR (Dubna, Russia) |
1986 - 1988 | Military service |