Prof. Dr. Rashid Sunyaev

Curriculum Vitae

Birth date:	March 1, 1943
Place of birth:	Tashkent, Uzbekistan, USSR
Family status:	married to Gyusal Sunyaev born in Tashkent, USSR; has three sons and one daughter; all born in Moscow (1971, 1978, 1981 and 1988)

Education and scientific degrees:

1950 – 1960	School number 18, Tashkent
1960 – 1966	Student of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1966 – 1968	Ph.D. student at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1968	Candidate of Sciences - (equivalent of Ph.D.) degree from Moscow State University (astrophysics)
1973	Doctor of Sciences (astrophysics), degree from Moscow University. This degree is required in Russia to become a full professor.
1987	Professor of Astrophysics (title presented by the Superior Attestation Commission of the USSR Council of Ministers)

Positions:

1968 – 1970	Junior Scientific Researcher, Institute of Applied Mathematics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
1970 – 1974	Senior Scientific Researcher, Institute of Applied Mathematics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
1974 – 1982	Head of the Laboratory of Theoretical Astrophysics, Space Research Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow
1975 – 2001	Assistant and then Full Professor of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1982 – 2002	Head of the High Energy Astrophysics Department, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
1992 –	Chief Scientist, Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
1995 –	Scientific Member of Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
1996 –	Director of Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
1996 –	Honorary Professor, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich
2010 –	Maureen and John Hendricks Visiting Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Editorial Boards:

1985 –	Editor-in-Chief, Astronomy Letters
1979 – 2005	Editor-in-Chief, Astrophysics and Space Physics Reviews
1988 – 2007	Member of Editorial Board, Space Science Reviews
1995 –	Member of Advisory Board on Astrophysics and Space Physics, Springer (previously Kluwer) Scientific Publishers
1997 – 2005	Editor-in-Chief of the Astrophysics and Space Science Reviews, Soviet Scientific Reviews

Specialization:

main field	Theoretical astrophysics, cosmology, high energy astrophysics, X-ray astronomy, space research
other fields	Interaction of matter and radiation under astrophysical conditions

Professional Honors, Awards:

1989	Bruno Rossi Prize, American Astronomical Society
1991	Basic Sciences Award of International Academy of Astronautics
1991	John Lindsay Memorial Award for Science from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
1995	Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
1995	Robinson Prize in Cosmology from Newcastle University
1998	Sir Massey Medal from the Royal Society and COSPAR
2000	Catherine Bruce Medal from the Astronomical Society of Pacific
2000	State Prize of Russia for scientific results of the GRANAT Orbital Observatory (observations of black holes and neutron stars)
2002	Aleksandr Friedmann Prize in Gravitation and Cosmology from Russian Academy of Sciences
2003	Heineman Prize in Astrophysics from American Astronomical Society and American Institute of Physics
2003	Gruber Cosmology Prize from Peter Gruber Foundation and International Astronomical Union
2008	Crafoord Prize in Astronomy from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
2008	Henry Norris Russell Lectureship, American Astronomical Society
2008	Karl Schwarzschild Medal, German Astronomical Society
2009	King Faisal International Prize for Science (Physics)
2009	Antoinette de Vaucouleurs Medal, University of Texas, Austin
2010	Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande)
2011	Kyoto Prize, Inamori Foundation
2012	Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia
2013	Gold Medal of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences (Kazan, Russia)
2013	Order of Merit of Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
2014	Einstein Professor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2014	L. Woltjer Medal, European Astronomical Society
2015	Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
2015	Yakov Zeldovich Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2016	Oskar Klein Medal, Stockholm University and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Membership in Academies:

1984 – 1992	Corresponding member of USSR Academy of Sciences
1988 –	Member of International Academy of Astronautics
1990 –	Honorary member of Bashkortostan Academy of Sciences, Ufa, Russia
1990 –	Member of Academia Europaea
1991 –	Foreign Associate of the USA National Academy of Sciences
1991 –	Honorary Member, Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Kazan, Russia
1992 –	Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston
1992 –	Full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2003 –	Member of the German National Academy of Sciences “Leopoldina”
2004 –	Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2009 –	Foreign Member of the Royal Society (London)

Membership in Professional Societies:

1968 –	Member of International Astronomical Union
1986 – 1994	COSPAR (ICSU Committee on Space Research) vice-president
1991 –	Member of European Astronomical Society
1991 – 1993	Vice-president of European Astronomical Society
1992 –	Honorary member of American Astronomical Society
1993 –	Member of the American Physical Society
2003 –	Foreign Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
2007 –	International Member of the American Philosophical Society

Visiting and Honorary Positions & Lecturerships:

1990 – 1994	Adjunct Professor of Columbia University
June 1992	Visiting Professor of University of Virginia
July 1992	Visiting Scientist of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Dec. 1992	Regent Professor of the University of California, Berkeley
July – Aug. 1993	Fairchild Distinguished Scholar of California Institute of Technology
June, Dec. 1993, May 1994, Apr. 1995	Bearden Distinguished Professor of the Johns Hopkins University
2000 –	Honorary Professor of Kazan State University, Russia
Oct. – Dec. 2001, Apr., Dec. 2003	Gordon Moore Distinguished Scholar of California Institute of Technology
Feb. 2002	Scott Lecturer, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University
May 2002	Bruno Rossi Lecturer, Massachussets Inst. of Technology
Apr. 2004	Oort Professor, Leiden University
Mar. 2005	Sackler Lecturer on Astrophysics, Harvard University
Mar. – Apr. 2005	Visiting scientist, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Apr. 2005	Bishop Lecturer on Astrophysics, Columbia University
Oct. 2005	Karl Jansky Lecturer, National Radiastronomy Observatory
May 2006	Sackler Lecturer on Astrophysics, University of Toronto
May 2006	Conferenza Lincea Schiaparelli, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
Feb. 2007	Bose Lecturer, S.N. Bose National Center of Basic Sciences, Calcutta
Nov. 2008	Loeb Lecturer, Physics Department, Harvard University
Jan. 2009	Stanford University Physics Colloquium
Mar. 2009	Niels Bohr Lecturer, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Oct. 2010	Tom Gold Lecturer, Cornell University
Oct. 2011	John Bahcall Lecturership, National Air and Space Museum; Space Telescope Science Institute; Goddard Space Flight Center
Apr. 2012	Sackler Lecturer on Astrophysics, Princeton University
Jan. 2013	Bohdan Paczynski Lecture, Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw
Oct. 2013 –	Honorary member of the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute in Saint Petersburg
Nov. 2013	Distinguished lecture series at the Lewiner Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Technion, Haifa, Israel
May 2014	Einstein Professorship, Chinese Academy of Sciences
July 2014	Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture, European Astronomical Society, EWASS, Geneva
Feb. 2016	Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture, Stockholm University