Dmitry V. Bisikalo
Dmitry Valerevich Bisikalo (born 1961) is a Russian astrophysicist and an expert in the interaction of binary stars. He is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the IAU, Acting Chief of the Scientific Secretary of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Chief Researcher of the Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Biography Dmitry Bisikalo was born in 1961 in Irkutsk (Soviet Union). In 1984 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and started his PhD program at the Astronomical Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1988 he defended his PhD thesis (title: Investigation of the Inner Comet Coma in the Frame of Continual and Molecular Gas Dynamics). In 1998 he obtained his Full Doctor degree (Doctor of Sciences) at the Sternberg Astronomical Institute of MSU (title: Investigation of Gas Dynamics of Mass Transfer in Interacting Binary Systems). Since 2001 Bisikalo has been the deputy director of the Institute of Astronomy of RAS (INASAN). In 2010 he was awarded the Professor of Astrophysics and in 2011 he was elected the Correspondent Member of the RAS. Since 2016