Prof. Suleyman I. Allakhverdiev
S.I. Allakhverdiev received both his B.S. and M.S. in Physics from Azerbaijan State University, Baku; his Dr. Sci. Degree in Plant Physiology and Photobiochemistry from K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, RAS, Moscow (2002), and Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics (Biophysics) from the Institute of Biophysics, USSR, Pushchino (1984). S.I. Allakhverdiev is the Head of the Controlled Photobiosynthesis Laboratory at the K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology RAS (Moscow, Russia); Chief Research Scientist at the Institute of Basic Biological Problems RAS (Pushchino, Russia); Professor at the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia); Professor at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (Moscow, Russia); Head of Bionanotechnology Laboratory at the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnologies ANAS (Baku, Azerbaijan); Professor at the Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan), College of Science, King Saud University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Foshan University (China), Invited-Adjunct Professor at the Department of New Biology, DGIST (Daegu, Republic of Korea). He has authored (or co-authored) more than 350 research papers, 37 book chapters, 7 patents and 10 books. His work has been cited around 20000 times, and his h-index = 71. Since 2018 , S.I. Allakhverdiev has been recognized by Thomson Reuters – WoS (Clarivate Analytics) as one of the Highly Cited world-class researchers and since 2018, he entered the list of the most highly cited scientists of the world. He has organized 10 international conferences on “Photosynthesis and Hydrogen Energy Research for Sustainability” (see: https://icprs.ru/). S.I. Allakhverdiev has received numerous awards and honors from Russia, Azerbaijan, Republic of Korea and in 2021, became the laureate of “Global Energy Prize”. His research interests include PSII structure and function, especially the water-oxidizing complex, artificial photosynthesis, hydrogen photoproduction, catalytic conversion of solar energy, plants under environmental stress, and photo-receptor signaling.
