Denisov Grigory Gennadievich
Director of the IAP RAS, Head of the Department of Plasma Physics and High-Power Electronics, D. Sc in Phys. & Math., corresponding member of the RAS
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Grigory Gennadievich Denisov was born on April 30, 1956 in the city of Gorky.
After graduating from the Faculty of Radio Physics of the Gorky State University in 1978, he worked at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, first as an intern researcher, then successively as a junior researcher, associate professor, head of laboratory, and head of department. In 1985, under the leadership of Academician A.V. Gaponov-Grekhov, he defended his Ph.D. thesis "Relativistic electron microwave oscillators of the millimeter-wavelength range with highly selective electrodynamic systems", and in 2002 his doctoral thesis "Formation, transformation and transmission of radiation in oversize electrodynamic systems". In 2011, he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2012, he has been the Head of the Plasma Physics and High-Power Electronics Division and Deputy Director for Science at the Institute.
Over the years he has become widely known in our country and abroad for his theoretical and experimental work on electrodynamics of multimode systems and high-power electronics. He is the author of more than 300 scientific papers, 6 author’s certificates and patents (Hirsch index 27, the number of citations is more than 3000) .
In these areas, Denisov G.G. performed basic works: fundamentally new methods for diagnostics and transformation of the spatial structures of high-power wave beams were proposed and developed and new types of high-power electronic microwave devices were proposed and implemented. Works by Denisov G.G. determined the successful development of new highly demanded microwave devices with record-breaking parameters, including megawatt gyrotrons for controlled thermonuclear fusion facilities, millimeter-wave gyro-TWT with a wide band of amplified frequencies, and free-electron masers. The results of his work are also very important in the development of promising facilities for the study of new methods of microwave processing of materials to create new sources of multiply charged ions for growing diamond films by CVD technology.
G. G. Denisov was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize for achievements in science (1986), the D. Rose International Prize for achievements in fusion technology (1997), the State Prize of the Russian Federation for achievements in science and technology (2003), Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation for the development of industrial production of megawatt gyrotrons for controlled thermonuclear fusion facilities (2011).
G.G. Denisov is a member of the Scientific Council of the IAP RAS, a member of the IAP RAS dissertation council, the chairman of the expert council of Gycom Ltd, a member of the ITER Scientific and Technical Coordination Council under the State Atomic Energy Corporation “Rosatom”, and a member of the expert council of the Ministry of Education and Science. For many years, he has also been conducting teaching work (now as a professor) at the Nizhny Novgorod State University. He prepared a large number of highly qualified specialists in the field of radio physics and high-power electronics, of which seven defended their PhD thesis and one, a doctoral thesis. G G. Denisov is the head of the scientific school “Generation, amplification, transformation and transportation of high-power microwave and terahertz radiation for the purpose of its use in physical and technological research”, which combines about 40 scientists, including 8 doctors 14 candidates of science. The school has repeatedly received grants under the program of the President of the Russian Federation on state support of the leading scientific schools.
