Curriculum Vitae

Sergei A. Klioner


  1. Personal data

    Name: Sergei A. Klioner
    Year of birth: 11 June 1965, St.Petersburg , Russia
    Status: married

    Wife: Irina S. Sudnik, born on 20 March 1966
    Daughter: Elizaveta S. Klioner, born on 6 February 1994

  2. Academic degrees

    1987
    Diploma of Higher Education,
    St.Petersburg State University,
    St.Petersburg, Russia
    Subject: astronomy, celestial mechanics

    1991
    PhD (Candidate of Sciences) in Celestial Mechanics and Astrometry,
    St.Petersburg State University,
    St.Petersburg, Russia

    1996
    Diploma of Senior Researcher,
    a Russian academic degree equivalent to Assistant Professor (Lecturer, Dozent),
    Institute of Applied Astronomy,
    St.Petersburg, Russia

    2000
    Habilitation (Doctor of Sciences) in Astrometry and Celestial Mechanics,
    Russia

    2004
    Privatdozent,
    a German academic degree equivalent to Associated Professor (Lecturer),
    Technische Universität Dresden,
    Dresden, Germany

    2006
    apl. Professor (außerplanmäßiger Professor),
    a German academic degree of "Professor extraordinarius",
    Technische Universität Dresden,
    Dresden, Germany

  3. Major research interests

    Celestial mechanics and astrometry, general relativity and metric gravity theories, computer algebra

  4. Scientific Experience

    More than 150 scientific publications

    Member of the International Astronomical Union since 2000
    Member of several working groups of the International Association of Geodesy and the International Astronomical Union
    President of Commission 52 "Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy" of the International Astronomical Union, 2006-2009
    Vice President of Division I "Fundamental Astronomy" of the International Astronomical Union, 2009-2012

    Co-winner of the Descartes Prize 2003 of the European Union
    Principal Investigator in internationally awarded projects (funded by the DFG, DLR, ESO and ISF)

    Member of the Gaia Science Team, ESA since 2007
    Head of the Research Group "Fundamental Physics with Gaia", awarded by German Space Agency (DLR), 2006-
    Leader of the Gaia Collaboration "Relativistic Models and Tests", 2006-
    Member of the Bepi Colombo Team "Mercury Orbiter Relativity Experiment" (MORE), ESA & ASI, 2008-
    Member of the scientific community of ACES ("Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space"), ESA, 2007-2008

    Long term research stays: Japan, Germany
    Short term research stays: Finland, USA, France, Spain

    Teaching experience since 1995 at St.Petersburg State University, Technische Universität Dresden, University of Barcelona

    Computer experience since 1980

  5. Education stages

    1972-1980
    Secondary school No.159,
    St.Petersburg, Russia

    1980-1982
    Physico-Mathematical College No.239 ,
    St.Petersburg, Russia

    1982-1987
    Undergraduate and graduate courses,
    St.Petersburg State University,
    St.Petersburg, Russia,
    Main subjects: astronomy, physics, mathematics, computer science

    1987-1990
    Post-graduate studentship,
    Institute of Applied Astronomy,
    St.Petersburg, Russia
    Main subjects:
    general relativity applied to astrometry and
    celestial mechanics

    Scientific supervisor: Prof. Victor A. Brumberg
    Subject of the thesis:
    "Relativistic Reduction of Astronomical Observations"

  6. Employment history

    10/85-5/87
    programmer,
    Institute of Software Studies,
    St.Petersburg, Russia

    11/87-11/90
    Aspirant (post-graduate student),
    Institute of Applied Astronomy ,
    St.Petersburg, Russia

    11/90-12/91
    Junior Researcher,
    Institute of Applied Astronomy,
    St.Petersburg, Russia

    12/91-01/94
    Researcher,
    Institute of Applied Astronomy,
    St.Petersburg, Russia

    10/92-10/93
    JSPS post-doctoral fellow,
    National Astronomical Observatory ,
    Tokyo, Japan

    from 01/94
    Senior Researcher,
    Institute of Applied Astronomy,
    St.Petersburg, Russia

    06/95-04/96, 02/98-03/98, 02/00-03/00, 09/03-10/03, 09/05-10/05, 03/08-04/08
    Invited Professor,
    Astronomical Institute ,
    St.Petersburg State University,
    St.Petersburg, Russia
    (DAAD short-term professorship in 2003 and 2008)

    05/96-06/97
    Humboldt Research Fellow,
    Lohrmann Observatory ,
    Technische Universität Dresden,
    Dresden, Germany

    from 07/97
    Scientific Researcher,
    Lohrmann Observatory ,
    Technische Universität Dresden,
    Dresden, Germany

  7. Other professional background

    Referee of more than 100 papers submitted to

    Advances in Space Research
    Artificial Satellites
    Astronomicheskii Zhournal (Astronomy Reports, AZH)
    Astronomical Journal (AJ)
    Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)
    Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
    Astrophysics and Space Science
    Baltic Astronomy
    Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
    Central European Journal of Physics
    Classical and Quantum Gravity
    Earth, Moon, and Planets
    Europhysics Letters (EPL)
    General Relativity and Gravitation (GRG)
    International Journal of Theoretical Physics
    Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
    Journal of Geodesy
    Pis'ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal (Astronomy Letters, PAZH)
    Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)
    New Astronomy
    Planetary and Space Science
    Physical Review D (PRD)
    Physical Review Letters (PRL)

    Scientific supervisor of PhD dissertations
    "Relativistic Experiments and Models for Optical Space Astronomy. Application to Gaia mission", Guillem Anglada-Escudé, University of Barcelona

    Referee of several PhD dissertations and Habilitations in
    St.Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
    Institute of Applied Astronomy, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia
    Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
    Paris Observatory, France
    Besançon Observatory, France

    Scientific supervisor and referee of several Master degree theses in St.Petersburg State University and Technische Universität Dresden

    Member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Applied Astronomy, St.Petersburg, Russia

    Referee of the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA

    Referee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany

    11/93-11/94
    International Science Foundation grant winner
    (awarded by the American Physical Society)

    07/94-12/95
    Principal Investigator of the International Science Foundation
    long term grant "Analytical Theories of Motion
    of Natural Celestial Bodies"

    03/95-02/96
    Principal Investigator of the long-term grant within
    the ESO Central & Eastern Europe Programme
    "Rotational motion of deformable bodies in
    General Relativity"

    2003
    Co-winner of the EU Descartes Prize 2003


    Member of Scientific Organizing Committees:

    IMACS "Applications of Computer Algebra" 2000, Session "Computer Algebra in Relativity and Celestial Mechanics", St.Petersburg, Russia, 25-28 June 2000
    Gravitational waves, radio pulsars and astrometry: Testing gravity in the next decade, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, 30-31 March 2006
    The 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Session "High Precision Astrometry and Relativity", Freie Universität of Berlin, Germany, 23-29 July 2006
    A Giant Step: from Milli- to Micro-arcsecond Astrometry, IAU Symposium 248, Shanghai Observatory, Shanghai, China, 15-19 October 2007
    Problems of modern astrometry, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 22 - 26 October 2007
    Theoretical Aspects of ACES Mission, Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy, 29-30 April 2008
    Astrometry, Geodynamics and Astronomical Reference Systems, Journées 2008 and X. Lohrmann-Kolloqium, Dresden, Germany, September 2008
    Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy: Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis, SOC chair, IAU Symposium 261, Virginia Beach USA, 27 April - 1 May, 2009 (SOC chair)
    The 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Session "Astrometric Tests of Relativity", Paris, France, 12-18 July 2009
    Time and Astronomy, Joint Discussion, XXVII General Assembly of the IAU, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 3-14 August 2009
    GREAT-ESF Workshop "QSO Astrophysics, Fundamental physics, and Astrometric Cosmology in the Gaia era", Porto, Portugal, 6-9 June 2011
    Space-time reference systems for future research, Joint Discussion, XXVIII General Assembly of the IAU, Beijing, China, 20-31 August 2012

    Invited speaker at the following international conferences:

    The 3rd Orlov conference "Investigation of the Earth as a planet", Odessa, Ukraine, September 1992
    IAU Symposium 172, Paris, France, July 1995
    IAU Colloquium 168, Poznan, Poland, July 1996
    The 22th General Assembly of the IAU, Kyoto, Japan, August 1997
    Journées 1997, Systèmes de référence spatio-temporels, Prague, Czech Republic, September 1997
    The DFG-Rundgespräch "Rotation der Erde/Bezugssysteme", Wettzell, Germany, April 1997
    IAU Colloquium 180, Washington, USA, March 2000
    Journées 2000 du GREX, Grasse, France, October 2000
    GAIA - A European Project, Les Houches Summer Workshop, France, May 2001
    The three dimensional universe with Gaia, International Gaia Symposium, Paris, France, October 2004
    Michelson Summer Workshop: Discovering New Worlds Through Astrometry, CalTech, Pasadena, USA, July 2005
    The International Relativistic Astrophysics Ph.D. School, Nice, France, February 2006
    The 3rd ASTROD Meeting, Beijing, China, July 2006
    SIGRAV Graduate School "Experimental Gravitation in Space", Florence, Italy, September 2006
    International Workshop "Advances in Precision Tests and Experimental Gravitation in Space", Florence, Italy, September 2006
    Spring Meeting of the German Physical Society, Heidelberg, Germany, February 2007
    First European workshop on Solar System Dynamics and Ephemerides, ESOC, Darmstadt, June 2007
    "General Relativity", Center of Physics of the German Physical Society, Bad Honnef, Germany, July 2007
    Journées 2007, Systèmes de référence spatio-temporels, Paris, France, September 2007
    IAU Symposium 248, Shanghai, China, October 2007
    ELSA School on the Science of Gaia, Leiden, The Netherlands, November 2007
    Workshop "Theoretical Aspects of ACES Mission", Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy, April 2008
    Journées 2008, Systèmes de référence spatio-temporels, Dresden, Germany, September 2008
    IAU Symposium 261, Virginia Beach, USA, April 2009
    International conference "The Milky Way and the Local Group - Now and in the Gaia Era", Heidelberg, Germany, September 2009
    ELSA School on "The Techniques of Gaia", Heidelberg, Germany, October 2009
    Annual Meeting and General Assembly of the Germany Astronomical Societym, Spliter Meeting "Relativity in Astronomy", Bonn, Germany, September 2010
    Royal Astronomical Society Specialist Discussion "Testing Gravity in teh New Decade: Radio Pilsars, Astrometry and Gravitational Waves", London, UK, December 2010
    GREAT-ESF Workshop "QSO Astrophysics, Fundamental physics, and Astrometric Cosmology in the Gaia era", Porto, Portugal, June 2011
    Europlanet Workshop on "Planetary Geodesy and Ephemerides", Moscow, Russia, November 2011

    Co-author of the invited presentations at the following conferences:

    IAU Symposium 141, St.Petersburg, Russia, November 1988
    The 1988 Spring Meeting of the German Astronomical Society, Gotha, Germany, June 1997
    Journées 1998-2007, Systèmes de référence spatio-temporels, various locations in Europe, 1998-2007
    The 25th General Assembly of the IAU, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2006

  8. Language abilities

    Russian: mother language
    English: fluent
    German: fluent
    French: good in reading and listening comprehension
    Japanese: reasonable in reading with dictionary

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