VIGASIN ANDREY ALEKSEYEVICH

Dr. Sc. in Physics and Math.

Employment: Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Resident of the Institute of Quantum Physics of INRTU.

Education: Physical Faculty, Moscow State University:

1966-1972 student; 1975-1978 post-graduate student;

Degrees: 

Thesis of Candidate in Physics and Mathematics (Ph.D.) on nonlinear optics supported at the Physical Faculty, Moscow State University, 1978.

Thesis of Doctor in Physics and Mathematics, entitled “Molecular Spectroscopy of Associating Atmospheric Gases at Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Conditions” supported at the Chemical Faculty, Moscow State University, 1995.

Language proficiency: English, French.

Working experience:     

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russian (former USSR) Academy of Sciences, Senior scientific researcher since 1984, Leading scientific researcher since 1997, Principal scientific researcher since 2018 till now;

General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leading scientific researcher (2002-2009);

Institute for High Temperatures, USSR Academy of Sciences, Scientific researcher and Senior scientific researcher 1972-1975 and 1978-1984.

Main research interests:                

Molecular spectroscopy, atmospheric spectroscopy, thermodynamics, kinetics and spectroscopy of weakly bound molecules.

International visits: 

Laboratoire de Physique Moléculaire et Applications, Unversité Paris-Sud, Orsay, France - Invited professor (two months, 1991); LPMA, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, Invited scientific researcher (1998,1999 one month each); Universite de Rennes-1, Invited researcher (from one to three months, several years from 2005); MPI für Strömungsforschung, Göttingen, Germany - invited scientific researcher (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996 one month each).

Visiting scientist at the Universitary and other spectroscopic laboratories in:

France: Paris, Rennes, Dijon, Lille, Besançon, Verrieres le Buisson, Dunkerque (1991, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002-2009); Spain: Madrid (1991); Denmark:Copenhagen (1992); Sweden:Lund (1992); Germany:Göttingen, Munich (1992); United Kingdom:Oxford (RAL) (1997, 2008,2010); USA: (2001,2006);  Tunisia:Tunis (1998).

Publications:

About 90 publications in the refereed journals, about 80 communications at scientific symposia and congresses, about 20 scientific lectures given abroad;

multiauthor books “Molecular Complexes in Earth’s, Planetary, Cometary, and Interstellar Atmospheres”, Eds. A.A. Vigasin and Z. Slanina, The World Scientific, Singapore, 1998;

“Weakly interacting molecular pairs: Unconventiona absorbers of radiation in the atmosphere” Eds. C. Camy-Peyret and A.A. Vigasin, Kluwer, 2003.

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