Born in 1946 in Moscow, Russia.

Graduated (MS) from Department of Aerophysics and Applied Mathematics, Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology in 1969. He received his Candidate of Sciences degree (PhD) (Plasma Physics) from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology in 1972. He received his Doctor of Sciences degree (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics) from Space Research Institute (IKI) Academy of Sciences of USSR, Moscow in 1988. He received the scientific title Professor of Space Physics from Russian State Committee for High Education in 1995.

He worked in Space Research Institute Russian Academy of Sciences as Research Scientist (1972-1983), as Senior Scientist (1984-1990), as Lead Scientist/Professor (1991-1996). In 1997 he began to work at Dialogue-Science, A.A. Dorodnitsyn Computing Center Russian Academy of Sciences as Lead Scientist/Professor.

His research is devoted to simulation of the astrophysical and laboratory plasmas:

• Further development of the Complex Particle Kinetic model for simulation of the interpenetrating flows (multiple beams and plasma clouds).
• Global multidimensional multiscale multifluid and hybrid (fluid-kinetic) simulations of the interaction of the solar wind with planets - the Earth, the Moon, Venus, Mars, comets, etc.
• Hybrid/kinetic multiscale simulation of turbulent processes, particle heating and acceleration at the front of collisionless shocks and magnetic field reconnection in the plasma systems with reversed magnetic field configuration, with application to solar flares, magnetosphere of the planets, bow shocks, interplanetary shocks and the termination shock.
• Hybrid simulation of the (plasma and dust) beam propagation in plasma.
• Boltzmann (kinetic/fluid) global simulation of the interaction of atoms from the local interstellar medium with the heliosphere (including charge exchange and photoionization processes).

Teaching at the Department of Problems of Physics and Energetics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (since 1973) mainly on lectures: "Introduction to Computational Physics" and "Numerical Methods for Space and Plasma Physics". From 1990 to 1993 he occupied position of Deputy Head of Subfaculty "Space Physics" (including "Space Physics" and "Computational Physics" basic specialities) joint with Space Research Institute RAN. Since 1993 he occupaied Professor position.

Long term Visiting Professorship:

• East-West Space Science Center/Space and Plasma Physic Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Maryland at College Park (USA) (1992, 1993-1994),
• Max-Planck Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik (Berlin, Germany) (1995-1996), Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware (Newark, USA) (1997-1998),
• Max-Planck Institut fuer Aeronomie/Institut fuer Sonnensystemforschung (Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany) (1999, 2000, 2001),
• Institut fuer Theoretische Physik TU Braunschweig , Germany (2000, 2002, 2006),
• Space Physics Research Laboratory, Department of Atmospheric, Ocean and Space Sciences, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, USA) (2002-2004),
• Department of Physics, University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada) (2004-2006).

Projects and awards

• PI of the Russian Science Foundation (Russia) Grant 96-02-16326: Three-dimensional hybrid simulation of nonstationary processes at the boundaries of the magnetosphere.
• Co-PI of the NSF/DOE (USA) Grant ATM 9713223: The plasma physics of diffusive shock acceleration.
• Co-PI of the NASA (USA) Grant NAG5-6469: Using ULYSSES Observations to Constrain Global Models of the Heliosphere.
• Co-PI of teh DFG (Germany) Grant 436 RUS 17/2/00: Three-dimensional hybrid simulation of the interaction of the solar wind with a weak comet.
• Co-PI of the DFG (Germany) Grant 436 RUS 17/4/02: Three-dimensional hybrid simulation of the interaction of the stellar wind with extrasolar Planets.
• Goddard Senior Visiting Fellow (2006-2007), University of Maryland Baltimore County/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD).
• Member of Editorial Staff of the "STEP Simulation Promotion Office Newsletter", Kyoto, Japan, January 1992 - December 1996. Member of American Geophysical Union since 1994.

He has published more than 70 papers in space physics and two monographs:

1. A.S. Lipatov, THE HYBRID MULTISCALE SIMULATION TECHNOLOGY: An Introduction with Application to Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas, Springer-Verlag (Series: Scientific Computation), Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, PP.404, 2002 (www.springer.de, www.springer-ny.com).
   
   This monograph addresses researchers and students. The first part of the book is devoted to computational models and relevant numerical methods. We discuss here the hybrid codes, which include a wide spectrum of description for ions, positrons, dust grains, atoms and electrons: particle, gyrokinetic, guiding center, orbit-averaging approaches, photoionization and charge exchange effects. The detailed description of all main steps of multiscale hybrid simulation and corresponding numerical methods is presented in this part. The second part of this book is devoted to application of simulation technigue to study the basic plasma phenomena: wave generation by beams and plasma clouds, particle acceleration and dissipation processes inside collisionless shocks and current sheets. Other topics of this part are devoted to study the global interaction of the solar wind with nonmagnetic planets, comets, and the local interstellar medium.
2. A.S. Lipatov, Numerical Simulation of the Interaction of the Solar Wind with Comets, bPlasma Processes in Space, 1, ITOGI NAUKI I TECHNIKI, ed. R.Z. Sagdeev, Moscow (1989). (in Russian)

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