CURRICULUM VITAE



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 Astronomical Institute, Moscow 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 Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Oct. 1995



Title:   Professor, 2002



Education:



        1974 - 1977:    Postgraduate student, Faculty of Physics, MSU

                        Department of the Stellar Astronomy

        1968 - 1974:    Graduated from the Moscow University,

                        Faculty of Physics,

                        Department of the Stellar Astronomy and Astrometry

                        Superviser: prof. B.V.Kukarkin

Employment:



        2000 - present: Head of the Galaxy and Variable Stars Study Division, SAI MSU

        1996 - present: Full Professor, Deputy Head of the Experimental Astronomy

                        Department, Faculty of Physics, MSU

        1992 - 1996:    Associate Professor, Faculty of Physics, MSU

        1983 - 1992:    Assistant Professor, Faculty of Physics, MSU

        1977 - 1983:    Junior scientific fellow, SAI MSU



Member of the International Astronomical Union, Commission 33



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) "Galactic Astronomy" (64 hours) for 2nd grade students of the

    astronomical department, Faculty of Physics, Moscow University

    (1987 - present day)



(2) "The Elements of Stellar Dynamics" (36 hours) for 4th - 5th grade

    students of the astronomical department, Faculty of Physics,

    Moscow University (1975 - present day)



(3) "Astronomical Distances" (28 hours) for postgraduate students

    of the Turku University and Tuorla Observatory (Finland) (2009)



Contacts: 

        Phone: (7495)9391616

                +79165705693

        Fax:   (7495)9328841