Alexei Gvishiani

Alexei Dzhermenovich Gvishiani (; 29 October 1948) is a well-known Russian scientist, full member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Chief scientist of the Geophysical Center of RAS. Member of the Scientific Coordinating Council of the Federal Agency of Scientific organizations of Russia (FASO) and the Expert Council of the Russian Scientific Foundation. Foreign member of the Romanian Academy of Engineering and Technical Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Doctor Honoris Causa of the National Technological University of Ukraine, professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Paris Institute of Earth Physics of the Earth. Chair of the Russian Geophysical Committee and CODATA Committee of the Russian Academy of Sciences, vice-president of CODATA in 2002-2006. Vice-chair of the WDC Panel of the International Council for Science (ICSU) (1996–2006). Deputy chairman of the Committee of System Analysis, RAS. Vice-president of the Scientific Council International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and IIASA Program Committee chair (2010–2014). Member of Academia Europaea (2017). Biography and academic career Gvishiani was born on October 29, 1948, in Moscow in the family of a prominent philosopher, expert in control theory and systems analysis, full member (academician) of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Dzhermen Gvishiani. Through Dzhermen he is the grandson of Mikhail Gvishiani, the NKVD general. On his mother's side Gvishiani is a grandson of Alexei Kosygin, Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers in 1964–1980. After graduating from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU), А. Gvishiani entered for postgraduate education at the chair of the theory of functions and functional analysis, Department of mathematics and mechanics of MSU. He was a student of an internationally famous mathematician Prof. Izrael M. Gelfand.