Yury Osipov

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Yury Sergeevich Osipov (Russian: Юрий Сергевич Осипов, born in 1936) is a prominent Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is a full member and the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

[edit] Biography

Yury Osipov was born in Tobolsk (Tyumen Oblast, Russia). In 1959 he graduated from the Department of mechanics and mathematics of the Ural State University (Yekaterinburg, Russia). His teacher was Nikolai Krasovsky, famous scientist and founder of the Ural scientific school in mathematical theory of control and the theory of differential games. From 1961 to 1969 he worked at the Ural State University. From 1970 to 1993 he worked at the Institute of mathematics and mechanics of the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Yekaterinburg (from 1986 to 1993 he was the chief of the Institute). In 1971 he defended his second thesis and received the rank of professor in 1973. In 1984 he was elected corresponding member and in 1987 - full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Division of Machine Engineering, Mechanics and Control Processes Problems).

Since 1991 - President of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Reelected in 1996, 2001 and 2006. Member of the Russian government.

Since 1993 - chief of the V. A. Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow. Professor of the Moscow State University.

[edit] Honours

Full member (1987) and the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1991)
Lenin Prize (1976)
Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1981)
State Prize of Russian Federation (1993)
Euler Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences for outstanding results in mathematics and physics (1997)
Order for Merits before the Nation of 2nd (1999) and 1st degree (2006)
Cyril and Methodius Prize of the Russian Orthodox Church
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (see list of its members)