Organizing Committee Member
Abdussamatov Habibullo Ismailovich
Head
Pulkovo Observatory
Russia
Biography
Abdussamatov Habibullo Ismailovich: born October 27, 1940, in Samarkand, Uzbek SSR, now Uzbekistan. Education: Samarkand State University (1962), faculty of physics and mathematics; graduate courses in Leningrad State University (1965- 1967); postgraduate course in Pulkovo Observatory (1966-1969). Works in Pulkovo Observatory since 1964. At the present time – head of the Space Research Sector of the Sun at Pulkovo Observatory and the head of the Lunar Optical Observatory project. He is an expert in the area of solar physics and of the solar-terrestrial physics as well as the climate. He is independent scientist on natural climate change issues. He is featured on page 140 of the 2009 U.S. Senate Report of More Than 700 Dissenting Scientists Over Man-Made Global Warming. The European Scientific-Industrial Chamber in 2013 awarded him with a gold medal (No. 0188) and presented a DIPLOMA DI MERITO for a fundamental contribution to space research. He is the author of some180 scientific publications, including four scientific monographs and Book chapter “The New Little Ice Age has startedâ€, also seven scientific patents.
Research Area
solar physics, solar-terrestrial physics, Climate