IAEA Staff : Management
Mr. Yury Sokolov, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy
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Yury Sokolov was born in 1947.
A graduate of Moscow University, he began his scientific career in 1971 at the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, where he became a Candidate of Science and Doctor of Science in 1980 and 1996 respectively. He has worked in the fields of plasma physics and fusion, engineering design of fusion facilities and thermonuclear reactors. Since 1988 he has been active in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), firstly, as a member of the ITER Managing Committee, leading the Russian team of physicists and engineers, and, later, as the Russian representative on many ITER-related inter-governmental boards, which supervised and promoted the work of ITER.
In 1996, he was appointed Head of the Department of Science and Technology at the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy. In this post, as well as fundamental nuclear science, he was also responsible for nuclear power strategy development in the Russian Federation and for innovation across the full spectrum of fuel cycle and waste management technologies. He has initiated several nuclear knowledge preservation activities in the Russian Federation, some of which are linked to Agency activities in this area.
Mr. Sokolov has served as a member of the Scientific and Technical Council of Minatom in the Russian Federation and on various national and international committees for science and technology, on the editorial boards of scientific journals, on bilateral committees for scientific cooperation, etc.
In October 2003, Mr. Sokolov joined the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna as Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Nuclear Energy.
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