Director of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies
Sergei V. Shmatov, Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics).
Date and place of birth:
2 November 1972, Alma-Ata, USSR
Education and degrees:
- 1989−1995 Student of Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), Department of Experimental and Theoretical Physics
- 2002 Candidate of Science (Physics and Mathematics), PhD Thesis: “Study of the Multi-Particle Production with Global Characteristics of Nucleus-Nucleus Interactions at the LHC Energies”
- 2020 Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics), Doctoral Thesis: “Study of Muon Pair Production in the CMS Experiment at the Large Hadron Collider”
Professional career:
- 1995−2003 Junior Researcher, Researcher, Laboratory of High Energies (LHE), JINR
- 2003−2004 Head of Group, Laboratory of Particle Physics (LPP), JINR
- 2004−2006 Head of Sector, LPP, JINR
- 2006−2023 Head of Sector, The Veksler and Baldin Laboratory of High Energy Physics (VBLHEP), JINR
- Since 2023 Director MLIT, JINR
Scientific and organizational activity:
- 2002−2023 Russia and Dubna Member States (RDMS) Grid Data Manager for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Collaboration at the LHC, CERN
- Since 2003 Member, Scientific Secretary, Co-chairperson of programme and organizing committees of more than 30 international workshops, conferences, schools and other events
- Since 2004 Leader of the JINR programme of physics research with the CMS Detector at the LHC, CERN
- 2004−2006 Member of the Section of the LPP Science & Technology Council, JINR
- Since 2005 Physics Coordinator of Dubna Member States (DMS) participation programme of physics research with the CMS Detector at the LHC, CERN
- Since 2005 Chairperson of the DMS CMS Physics Meeting
- 2005−2007 Member of the LPP Science & Technology Council, JINR
- Since 2009 Scientific Secretary of the Joint Seminar of RDMS CMS Collaboration “Physics at the LHC”
- Since 2010 Member of the Physics Section of the VBLHEP Science & Technology Council, JINR
- 2019−2021 Member of the International Working Group for JINR Long-Term Development Strategy up to 2030 and beyond (Section of Relativistic Heavy-Ion and Spin Physics)
- Since 2022 Member of the Meshcheryakov Laboratory of Information Technologies (MLIT) Science & Technology Council, JINR
- Since 2022 Deputy JINR Representative in CMS Collaboration, CERN
Experiments and projects:
- 1993−1998 The experiments at the Synchrophasotron/Nuclotron, JINR
- Since 1996 The CMS experiment at the LHC, CERN
- Since 2002 CMS Tier-2 Level Center for a distributed data analysis at JINR
- 2002−2003 The HERA-B experiment, DESY
- Since 2003 Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Project
- 2004−2010 European project EGEE (Enabling GRID for E-sciencE)
- Since 2008 The CMS Regional Operation Center in JINR
- Since 2011 CMS Tier-1 Level Center for a distributed data analysis at JINR
- Since 2022 SPD Collaboration at the collider NICA, JINR
Educational activities:
- Since 2002 Supervising Diploma theses, master’s works and PhD theses
- Since 2002 Permanent lectures on schools and trainings on high-energy and computing physics
- 2003−2006 Lecturer, University Centre, JINR
- 2012−2020 Associate Professor, Department of Fundamental Problems of Microworld Physics, Dubna State University
- Since 2020 Professor, Department of Fundamental Problems of Microworld Physics, Dubna State University
Scientific interests:
- Physics of elementary particles (The Standard Model and Beyond)
- Problems of dark matter
- Heavy Ion Physics
- Computational methods and software for data processing and analysis, physics modeling for high energy physics
- Development of data models and data processing models for high energy physics
- Grid technologies, parallel and distributed computing
Scientific publications:
Author of more than 110 papers and reviews on elementary particle physics, searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, heavy ion physics, computing in high energy physics. Co-author of about 1200 papers within the CMS Collaboration.
Prizes and awards:
- Encouraging JINR prize (2021)
- 6 LPP and VBLHEP prizes (2006−2021)
- JINR Certificates of Honour (2013, 2021)
- The High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of European Physical Society (2013, in a team of the ATLAS and CMS Сollaborations)
- Commendation from the CMS Collaboration Spokesperson (2013, in a team of the RDMS CMS Сollaboration)
