Nikolay Laverov
Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1987), vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1991, director of the Institute of Geology for Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry
Nikolay Laverov graduated from the Kirov Mining and Chemical Technical School and the M.I. Kalinin Nonferrous Metals and Gold Institute in Moscow. He has a doctorate in geology and mineralogy and is a professor. In 1987-1989, he was president of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences. In 1988-1991, Laverov was vice president of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and in 1989-1991 he was deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, chairman of the USSR State Committee on Science and Technology, and a fellow of the Kyrgyz Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Laverov's main areas of scientific research include uranium deposit geology, metallogeny of continental volcanism and radiogeoecology. Since June of 1992, Laverov has been president of the Lomonosov Foundation. In December 1998, he was appointed chairman of the Inter-ministerial Commission for Ecological Security of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. He was elected council member of the national political party Our Home Is Russia. Laverov is also a laureate of the Triumph National Award in the Earth Science Nomination (2002), winner of the Russian Federation Government Award in the area of education (2006), and has also been granted state awards, among them the Order "For Service to the Motherland", 2nd degree (2005) and the golden medal of the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2007).
