Askold Belyakov

Biography:

Askold Belyakov was born in 1932. He holds higher technical (1950-1956), economic (1963-1964), postgraduate (1968-1970), and political (1978-1979) degrees, a Candidate of Technical Sciences degree (1971), and the title of Senior Research Fellow (1975). In 1956, he graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MEI) with a qualification as a thermal engineer. After graduation, he worked in the field of automation in the mining and metallurgical industries. From 1960 to 1968, he headed the automation laboratory at the Zaporozhstal plant in the Ukrainian SSR. In 1968, he entered full-time postgraduate studies at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering (MIKhM), which he completed ahead of schedule in 1970 by defending his candidate's dissertation. He was then hired through a competitive process as the head of the automation laboratory at the All-Union Research Institute of the Chemical Industry. In 1975, he was awarded the title of Senior Research Fellow. In 1980, he was hired through a competitive process as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Physics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and in 1997 he was appointed to the position of Leading Research Fellow. He retired in 2016. The total number of publications is 160, including 43 author's certificates for inventions in the USSR and patents in the Russian Federation. Since 2013, I have been living in San Francisco, California, USA.