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)