Felix Chernousko

Dr. Sc., Professor

Born: May 16, 1938

Education:
1955 – 1961: Student, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1961 – 1963: Postgraduate, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1964: Candidate of Science in Physics and Mathematics
1969: Doctor of Science in Physics and Mathematics

Positions held:
1964 – 1968: Junior Researcher, then Senior Researcher at the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences
1964 – 2002: Assistant, Lecturer, Professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1968 – 2004: Head of Laboratory, Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Since 2002: Professor, Head of the Chair of Mechanics and Control Processes, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2004 – 2015: Director of the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
since 2015: Principal researcher, Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Membership:
1972: Member of the Russian National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
1987: Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1992: Member of the Russian National Committee for Automatic Control
1992: Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1997: Foreign Member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
2002: Member of the International Academy of Astronautics
2002: Member of the European Academy of Sciences
2004: Foreign Member of the Academy of Engineering of Serbia and Montenegro
2011: Full Member of the Russian Academy of Engineering

Awards & Honours:
1961: Prize at the USSR Competition of students’ scientific works
1971: Leninsky Komsomol Prize (the major prize for young scientists in the USSR)
1971: Medal “For Valor in Labor”
1980: State Prize of the USSR
1993: Koerber Prize for European Science
1997: Medal “In Memory of 850 years of Moscow”
1998: State Prize of the Russian Federation
1998: Alexander von Humboldt Prize, Germany
2005: Chaplygin Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2008: Honorary Professor of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
2009: Euromech Fellow, European Society of Mechanics
2010: Order of Friendship, Russian Federation
2011: Leonhard Euler Gold Medal, Euler Foundation
2015: Andronov Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2016: The Breast Badge “Valor in Engineering” of the Russian Academy of Engineering
2017: Honorary Member of the Serbian Society of Mechanics
2019: Ishlinsky Prize of the Russian National Committee for Theoretical and Applied Mechanics