Boris Grinyov

Boris Viktorovych Grinyov (Ukrainian: Борис Вікторович Гриньов) (born April 1, 1956 in Kharkov, USSR) is a Ukrainian scientist, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS) and currently Director of the State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine.

Biography

Boris Grinyov obtained a Specialist degree in Physics from Kharkiv University in 1978. He obtained his Candidate Dissertation in Physics and Mathematics in 1985 from Donetsk National University under the supervision of Volodymyr Semynozhenko, “On the theory of the normal and ferromagnetic superconductors in the strong electromagnetic fields”.

In 1987 he started working at the Institute for Single Crystals (ISC) in Kharkov, Ukraine. There he completed his Doctoral Dissertation in Technical Sciences on the subject of “Ionization detectors for extreme conditions” in 1994.

From 1996 to 2002 he was director of the ISC. In 2001 he created the Institute for Scintillation Materials within the structure of the NAS of Ukraine and was its director from 2002 to 2011.

From 2011 to 2014 he was the First Deputy Head of the State Agency on Science, Innovation and Informatization of Ukraine.

From 1997 to 2003 and since 2010, he represents Ukraine in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia. In 2008 he was elected a Member of the JINR Scientific Council.

Since 2007 he has been the Head of Department of Crystal Physics at Kharkiv National University. In 2010 Boris Grinyov became a Member of the Presidium of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.

Since 2014 until present he is the Director of State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine.

Scientific work

The scientific activities of Boris Grinyov center on the study of the fundamental properties of scintillation materials: searching for new scintillators, and developing instruments and devices based on scintillators for applications in various fields ranging from high energy physics (the BaBar, Belle and Alice experiments and the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, among others) to medical devices.

Among the scientific publications of Boris Grinyov are 14 monographs, over 800 scientific publications, 175 patents. Under his direction eight masters and eight doctoral dissertations were performed. He also published several tutorials and a textbook for higher mathematics.

Honors and awards

In 1996 Boris Grinyov was one of the recipients of the National Award of Ukraine in Science and Technology for “Development of technology for industrial production of large scintillation crystals for various applications”.
He was awarded an Order of merit of the third degree in 2006 and the second degree in 2009.
He received the G. V. Kurdyumov award of the NAS of Ukraine in 2006 and its V. I. Trefilov Award in 2009.
In 2008 he was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Science by Hanyang University (Seoul, South Korea) for his contribution in establishing scientific and technical cooperation between Ukraine and South Korea.
In 2016 he was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Science of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Kharkiv, Ukraine).
In 2016 Boris Grinyov was one of the recipients of the Prime of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for the development and implementation of innovative technologies for "Development and implementation of advanced technologies for creating sophisticated detector modules based on key high-tech components with aluminum switching systems for detecting particles in high energy physics experiments".

Private life

Married, has two daughters.

External links

• State Agency on Science, Innovation and Informatization of Ukraine
• National Academy of Science
• Institute for Scintillation Materials
• Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
• State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine