Sergei Odintsov

Sergei D. Odintsov (born 1959, Shchuchinsk, Kazakhstan) is a Spanish-based Russian astrophysicist active in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory and quantum gravity. Odintsov is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (Barcelona) since 2003. He also collaborates as group leader at research projects of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University. He is a member of the editorial boards of Universe, International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, Journal of Gravity, Gravitation and Cosmology, and the Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. Odintsov also is an advisory panel member of Classical and Quantum Gravity.
In 2011, Odintsov was included in the list of the top 10 most well-known scientists of Russian origin according to Forbes. In 2014, he was included in the list of The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014 according to Thomson Reuters.

Awards

• Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters since 2003.
• Annual Scientific Prize of Tomsk Oblast 2003.
• Tomsk Oblast Governor fellowship in Natural Sciences, 2011
• Amaldi Medal: European Prize for Gravitational Physics 2014

• http://www.dknvs.no/akademimedlemmer/medlemmer/utenlandske-medlemmer-naturvitenskapelig-klasse/
• http://www.ice.csic.es/en/view_new.php?NID=228