Director of the Laboratory of Radiation Biology
Aleksander N. Bugay, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics.
Date and place of birth:
7 April 1983, Gvardeisk, Kaliningrad region, USSR.
Education and degrees:
- 2000–2005 Kaliningrad State University, Physics Department
- 2005–2008 Postgraduate study at Immanuel Kant Russian State University (Kaliningrad)
- 2008 Candidate of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics), PhD Thesis: «Quasi-one-dimensional solitary waves in solids»
- 2019 Doctor of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics), Thesis: «Nonlinear interaction of quasimonochromatic and broadband pulses in anisotropic media»
Professional career:
- 2008–2015 Researcher of the Laboratory of Radiation Biology JINR (LRB JINR)
- 2015–2019 Head of Sector, LRB JINR
- Since 2019 Director of LRB JINR
Scientific and organizational activity:
Member of programme and organizing committees of international workshops and conferences
Educational activity:
- Professor, Biophysics Department, State University «Dubna»
- Supervisor of theses and diploma papers
- Lecturer at international schools
Scientific interests:
- Monte Carlo simulation of the interaction of charged particles with biological systems
- Modeling of DNA repair and radiation-induced mutagenesis
- Modeling of radiation-induced disturbances in the functioning of neural networks
- Nonlinear dynamics of biomolecules
- Effect of terahertz radiation on biological systems
- Generation of terahertz radiation
- Extremely short laser pulses
- Nonlinear waves and solitons
Scientific publications:
Author and co-author of more than 120 papers.
Grants and awards:
- 2006 – 2012 Stipendiate and grant holder of the Dynasty Foundation (theoretical physics)
- Since 2005 Co-investigator in several grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (physics, radiation biology)
- Since 2017 Principal investigator in the grant of the Russian Science Foundation (mathematics)
- 2018 JINR Prize for the series of works “Study of the nonlinear dynamics of the waves of the terahertz frequency range in condensed matter and living systems”
