Alexander Belyaev

Alexander K. Belyaev achieved a Habilitation Degree in „Mechanics“ from the Vienna University of Technology in 1997 and Degree of Doctor of Science in „Physics and Mathematics“ in Russia in 2001. Since 2002 he is Professor at the Department of Mechanics and Control of the Peter-the-Great Polytechnic University of St. Petersburg and Professor at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of St.Petersburg State University. He was Director of the Institute for Problems in Mechanical Engineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2015-2019. Now he is a Chief Scientific Researcher and Head of the Mechatronics Laboratory of this Institute. In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary Doctor Degree (doctor honoris causa) of the Johannes Kepler University Linz, in 2016 he was elected a foreign member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 2019 he was elected a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Council of the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH) and a member of Symposia Panel of the International Union for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM). He is a member of the advisory board of six international scientific journals and four national scientific journals. Currently he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal «Vestnik of St.Petersburg University. Mathematics, Mechanics. Astronomy». He is the author and co-author of more than 280 scientific publications in English, German and Russian.