Victor Dmitrievich Lakhno

( acting laboratory chief )

 

·Лахно В.Д.        Date and place of birth: 01.11.1951, Irkutsk
Education: higher
   1969-1975 – student of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
   1975-1978 – post-graduate student of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
   1978 – Cand.Sc. (Physics and Mathematics)
   1988 – D.Sc. (Physics and Mathematics)
Positions:
   –  junior research scientist (Research Computing Center, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1978-1985)
   –  senior research scientist (Research Computing Center, USSR Academy of Sciences, 1985-1989)
   –  Acting Head of the Laboratory of Quantum-Mechanical Systems of the IMPB RAS (1989 – till present time)
   –  Deputy Director (IMPB RAS, 1994-1998)
   –  Director of the Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS (1998-2016), Scientific supervisor of the Institute of IMPB RAS (2016)   –  President of the Academic Board of the IMPB RAS (1998-2016)   –  Chairman of the Research Board on Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics (2006 – to-date)
   –  Chairman of the Organising Committee of the International Conference on Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics
   –  Member of the Dissertation Committee of the Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (2012-2016)
   –  Member of the Dissertation Committee of the Laboratory of Information Technologies of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
   –  Member of the American Chemical Society

Research interests: Theoretical and mathematical physics, biophysics
Main achievements: New types of polaron excitation in condensed media, magnetic systems and electrolytes; new types of electron bound states in clusters; polaron superexchange theory at transfer via electron extended states in proteins, theory of charge transfer in DNA, superconductivity

Member of editorial boards of the journals:

  • Editor-in-Chief: “Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics”

Academic ranks:

  • senior research scientist, State Commission for Academic Degrees and Titles, USSR (1991)
  • professor (2005)

Awards:

  • Russian State Research Award for Outstanding Scholars (1994 – 1996)
  • Russian State Research Award for Outstanding Scholars (1997 – 1999)
  • Russian State Research Award for Outstanding Scholars (2000 – 2003)
  • Krylov award of Russian Academy of Sciences (2016)
  • Honoured Master of Sciences (2020)

 

E-mail: lak@impb.ru