Ilkaev Radiy Ivanovich

Education

Leningrad State University, specialist in high energy density physics.

Previous places of work

1961–1989 – theoretical department of VNIIEF; 1989–1993 – head of department, first deputy chief designer of VNIIEF; 1993–1996 – first deputy scientific director of VNIIEF.

Field of scientific interests

Theoretical physics, high energy density physics, laser physics, electrophysics, solid state physics.

Key facts of activity

Author and co-author of more than 350 scientific works, participant in numerous nuclear weapons tests, participant in a number of Russian and international conferences and symposia.

Academic degrees

Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, full member and member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Laureate of USSR State Prizes (1968, 1981) and the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1994).

Honorary titles

"Honored Scientist".

State awards

Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III degree, badge "Inventor of the USSR", awarded the Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation.

Membership in scientific organizations

Member of the Presidium of the World Russian People's Council, co-chairman of the Sarov-Diveyevo branch of the WRPC.

Foreign language

English.

Hobbies

Tennis, jogging.