Alexander Sergeev
State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom (Rosatom), Moscow, Russia

Scientist in the field of laser physics, femtosecond optics, theory of nonlinear wave phenomena, plasma physics and biophotonics.
Born on August 2, 1955 in the village of Buturlino, Nizhny Novgorod Region.
In 1977, he graduated from the Department of Radio Physics at Gorky State University named after N. I. Lobachevsky (now the National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod, NNSU) with a degree in radio physics. He started his carrier as a research intern at the Institute of Applied Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
In 2003 he was elected a corresponding member, and in 2016, he was elected an academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. From 2017 to 2022, he was the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Since October 2022 he has been appointed Scientific Director of the National Center for Physics and Mathematics.
Awards and Recognition:
State Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology (1999)
Order of Honour (2006)
Government Prize of the Russian Federation in Science and Technology (2012)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (as part of the LIGO collaboration) (2016)
Officer of the Order of the Academic Palms, France(2018)
Laureate of the International Medal "For Contribution to the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology" awarded by UNESCO (2018)
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th Class (September 10, 2020) - for significant contribution to the development of science and many years of fruitful work
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Nizhny Novgorod" (2021)
Honorary Citizen of the Nizhny Novgorod Region (2021)
The A. M. Prokhorov Gold Medal (September 19, 2023)
Order of Alexander Nevsky (February 5, 2024)

Optical quantum sensors in biology and medicine