Imaev V S
Institute of the Earth’s Crust, SB RAS, Russia
Biography
Imaev V S is a Doctor of Geological-Mineralogical Sciences. He is a Professor and Head of Laboratory of Seismogeology of the Institute of the Earth Crust Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1975, he graduated from the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University. After graduation, he was sent to the Institute of Geology of the Yakutsk, Siberian branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, where he passed the way from Senior Laboratory Assistant to a leading Researcher. In 1983, he defended his thesis "the Mesozoic-Cenozoic tectonics, stress fields and seismicity of the South Yakutia" at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics SB RAS (Novosibirsk), in 1994 he worked on his Doctoral thesis on "Active faults and seismotectonic North-East Asia" in the Institute of Geology and Geophysics SB RAS (Novosibirsk). In 1995, he was the Head of the Department of Arctic Studies, 1996-1998, Head of Foreign Relations Department of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic Sakha (Yakutia). In 1999, he became Professor of the Department of Geophysical Methods of prospecting and exploration of mineral deposits prospecting faculty of the Yakut state University. From 2002-2006 he was Senior Researcher of the Laboratory of Seismology, and in 2006, Head of the Laboratory of Seismogeology of Institute of Earth Crust SB RAS. Since 2016, he is the main Researcher of the Laboratory of Engineering Seismology and Seismogeology at the Institute of the Earth Crust RAS.