Full name:
Kovalchuk Mikhail
Kovalchuk Mikhail Date of Birth
21 September 1946
Kovalchuk Mikhail Citizenship
Russia
Kovalchuk Mikhail Professional field/official position
- Physicist
- Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- President of the Kurchatov Institute, Dean of the Physics Department of St. Petersburg State University, a Member of the Presidium of the Council on Science and Education under the President of the Russian Federation.
Kovalchuk Mikhail biography
KOVALCHUK Mikhail Valentinovich (b. 1946 in Leningrad) graduated from the Physics Department of Leningrad State University in 1970 and joined the Institute of Crystallography as a research intern. In 1978, he defended his kandidat thesis, and in 1988, his Ph.D. dissertation.
- In 1998, he was elected director of the Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences and received the title of professor. In 1999, he was appointed director-organizer of the Kurchatov Synchrotron Radiation Center. In 2000, he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of General Physics and Astronomy. Since 2005, he has been the Director (since 2015, the President) of the Kurchatov Institute.
- From 2007 to 2008, he was the Acting Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2010, he has been a Member of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation. Since November 2012, he has been an acting Dean of the Faculty of Physics of the St. Petersburg State University. Since 2018, he has been the supervisor of the Era military technopolis and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Advanced Research Foundation.
Kovalchuk Mikhail crimes
Direct participation in the creation of a corrupt authoritarian regime.
Mikhail Kovalchuk is the informal head of the Kovalchuk family clan. According to media reports, it was the elder brother, who used his connections in the Russian government and created the corruption-oligarchic structure. At the same time, the main nominal owner of the assets is his younger brother Yuri Kovalchuk, a billionaire, chairman of the board of directors of Rossiya Bank, a member of the famous Ozero summer house cooperative, and a close associate of Vladimir Putin.
