Alexey Sergeevich Rastorguev

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Birth: July 26, 1951 (born Novaya Pustyn', Ryazan Region)
Married: daughters Elizaveta (1981), Elena (1986), Ekaterina (2010)

Sci. Degrees: Ph. D. (Sci. Candidate): "The Dynamics of the Globular Clusters", (adviser Professor B.V.Kukarkin) at Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Dec. 1979
Dr. Sci. (Doctor phys.-mathemat. sci.): "Radial Velocities of the Stars and the determination of the structural and kinematical Characteristics of the Galaxy" at Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Oct. 1995

Title: Professor, 2002

Education:
1974 - 1977: Postgraduate student, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, Division of the Stellar Astronomy and Astrometry (supervisor: Prof. B.V.Kukarkin)

1968 - 1974: Graduated from the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Physics, Division of the Stellar Astronomy and Astrometry (supervisor: Prof. B.V.Kukarkin)

Employment:
2015 - present: Head of the Experimental Astronomy Division, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
2000 - present: Head of the Galaxy and Variable Stars Study Department, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow StateUniversity
1996 - 2015: Full Professor, Deputy Head of the Experimental Astronomy Division, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1992 - 1996: Associate Professor, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1983 - 1992: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
1977 - 1983: Junior scientific fellow, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Scientific interests: stellar astronomy, Universal distance scale, stellar dynamics, physycs of Cepheids, Milky Way galaxy structure and kinematics

Publications: ~180 papers in AstL, AstBull, A&A, AJ, ApJ, MNRAS, AN ets.

Member of the International Astronomical Union (1995) Member of the Astronomical Counsil of the Russian Academy of Sciences Recipient of the F.A.Bredikhin's Prize of the RAS (2007) for the Cepheids study

Soros Docent and Professor (Soros Foundation, 1994-2002) Winner of the "Top 100 Educators - 2009" competition (by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England)

Teaching courses:
(1) " Galactic Astronomy" (72 hours) for 2nd grade students of the astronomical department, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (from 1987)
(2) " Dynamics of Stellar Systems" (72 hours) for 4th grade students of the astronomical department, Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (from 1975)
(3) "Astronomical Distances" (68 hours) for postgraduate students of the Turku University and Tuorla Observatory (Finland) (2009) and students of Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University (from 2015)