Dr. Alexander Vasiliev
Nuclear Safety Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Biography:

Alexander Vasiliev was born in 1962. In 1985 he finished Moscow Physico-Technical Institute. In 1988 he finished post-graduate courses attached to I.V.Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute, Moscow. He defended his thesis in 1989. Since 1989 Dr. Vasiliev worked at Nuclear Safety Institute, Moscow. Also, he teaches students at Moscow Institute of  Physics and Technology. The areas of interest include the safety of nuclear power plants (NPPs) especially NPPs with Russian type water-water energetic reactors (VVERs), analytical and numerical modeling of physical and chemical phenomena during NPPs accidents including fuel cladding oxidation, the applications of carbon nanoparticles in industry, transport of impurities in geological media in the vicinity of radioactive waste burial places etc. Prof. Vasiliev has about 100 scientific publications.