CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:    Alexey Sergeevich Rastorguev (Rastorgouev)

Birth:   July 26, 1951 (born Novaya Pustyn', Ryazan Region)

Married; three daughters (Elizaveta, 1981; Elena, 1986; Ekaterina, 2010)

Degrees: Ph. D. (Sci. Candidate):
         "The Dynamics of the Globular Clusters", adviser Professor B.V.Kukarkin
         Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Dec. 1979

         Dr. Sci. (Doctor phys.-mathemat. sci.):
         "Radial Velocities of the Stars and the determination of the structural
         and kinematical Characteristics of the Galaxy"
         Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Oct. 1995

Title:   Professor, 2002

Education:

         1974 - 1977:    Postgraduate student, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, 
                         Division of the Stellar Astronomy and Astrometry
                         Supervisor: Prof. B.V.Kukarkin
 
         1968 - 1974:    Graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University,
                         Faculty of Physics, Division of the Stellar Astronomy and Astrometry
                         Supervisor: Prof. B.V.Kukarkin
Employment:

         2015 - present: Head of the Experimental Astronomy Division, 
                         Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University 

         2000 - present: Head of the Galaxy and Variable Stars Study Department, 
                         Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University

         1996 - 2015:    Full Professor, Deputy Head of the Experimental Astronomy Division, 
                         Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

         1992 - 1996:    Associate Professor, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

         1983 - 1992:    Assistant Professor, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

         1977 - 1983:    Junior scientific fellow, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, 
                         Lomonosov Moscow State University 

Scientific interests:    stellar astronomy, Universal distance scale, basics of stellar dynamics, 
                         physycs of Cepheids, Milky Way galaxy structure and kinematics

Publications:            ~ 170 papers in AstL, AstBull, A&A, AJ, ApJ, MNRAS, AN ets.

Member of the International Astronomical Union (1995)

Member of the Astronomical Counsil of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Recipient of the F.A.Bredikhin's Prize of the RAS (2007)
                  for the Cepheids study (with L.N.Berdnikov and N.N.Samus)

Professor and Docent (Soros Foundation, 1994-2002)

Winner of the "Top 100 Educators - 2009" competition
                  (by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England)

Teaching courses:

(1) "The Galactic Astronomy" (72 hours) for 2nd grade students of the
    astronomical department, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
    (1987 - present day)

(2) "The Elements of Stellar Dynamics" (36 hours) for 4th - 5th grade
    students of the astronomical department, Faculty of Physics,
    Lomonosov Moscow State University (1975 - 2018)

(3) "The Dynamics of Stellar Systems" (68 hours) for 4th grade students
    of the astronomical department, Faculty of Physics,
    Lomonosov Moscow State University (2019 - present day)

(4) "Astronomical Distances" (34 hours) for postgraduate students
    of the Turku University and Tuorla Observatory (Finland) (2009)
    and Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (from 2015)

(5) "The Universal Distance Scale" (68 hours) for 5th-6th grade  
    students of the astronomical department, Faculty of Physics,
    Lomonosov Moscow State University (2019 - present day)

(6) "The dynamics of star clusters" (36 hours)
    for postgraduate students, Faculty of Physics,
    Lomonosov Moscow State University (from 2015)

Contacts: 
        Phone: +7(495)9391616