Curriculum Vitae

Zinovy M. Malkin

Personal Affiliation Address Education Membership Professional
Fields of Research Publications Conference activities Programming

♦ Personal

Name Zinovy M. Malkin
Born on October 6, 1950 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Russia
Married, three sons, two grandsons

♦ Affiliation

Lab of Radioastrometry and Geodynamics
Department of Radioastronomy Researches
Central Astronomical Observatory at Pulkovo of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pulkovo Observatory)
St. Petersburg
Russia

♦ Address

Pulkovo Observatory
Pulkovskoe Ch., 65
St. Petersburg 196140
Russia

Tel.: +7-(812)-363-74-42
Fax: +7-(812)-723-19-22

e-mail: regular: malkin@gao.spb.ru, backup: zmalkin@zmalkin.com

http: www.zmalkin.com

♦ Education, titles

1972	Graduated from the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) State University, Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Department of Astronomy; Diploma thesis: "Investigation of the near-diurnal nutation term in observations of bright zenith stars at Poltava".
1985	Ph.D. degree in Astrometry and Celestial Mechanics from Pulkovo Observatory on a dissertation entitled "Theory and practice of the observations with PZT and a proposal on a photoelectric zenith tube"; advisor Dr. Vitaly Naumov.
1997	Dr.Sci. degree (Habilitation) in Astrometry and Celestial Mechanics from Institute of Applied Astronomy on a dissertation entitled "Classical and satellite methods for maintenance of time and coordinate systems".

♦ International membership

General membership

Fellow of IAG (2011-)
Member of IAU Commission 8 "Astrometry" (2011-)
Member of AGU, Geodesy Section (2007-)
Associate member of IGS (2005-)
Member of EVGA (2005-)
Associate Member of IVS (1999-)
Associate Member of ILRS (1998-)
Member of CGSIC (1997-)
Member of IAU (1997-)
Member of IAU Commission 19 "Rotation of the Earth" (1997-)
IERS Correspondent (1995-)

Executive bodies, working groups, and committees

Member of IVS Task Force for the Intensives (2010-)
Organizing Committee Member of IAU Commission 19 "Rotation of the Earth" (IAG representative) (2009-2015)
Chair of IAG WG 1.4.1 "Geophysical and Astronomical Effects and the Consistent Determination of Celestial and Terrestrial Reference Frames", IAG Sub-Commission 1.4, IAG Commission 1 "Reference Frames" (2011-2014)
Member of IAG WG 1.4.2 "Co-location on Earth and in Space for the Determination of the Celestial Reference Frame", IAG Sub-Commission 1.4, IAG Commission 1 "Reference Frames" (2011-2014)
Member of IAG WG 1.4.3 "Realization of Celestial Reference Frames", IAG Sub-Commission 1.4, IAG Commission 1 "Reference Frames" (2011-2014)
Member of IVS VLBI2010 Committee (2005-)
Member of IAU SOFA Board (1996-)

Past

Chair of IAG WG 1.4.1 "Theoretical Aspects of the Celestial Reference System and Systematic Effects in the CRF Determination" of IAG Commission 1 "Reference Frames" (2008-2011)
Member of IAG WG 1.4.2 "Realization of Celestial Reference Frames" of IAG Commission 1 "Reference Frames" (2008-2011)
Member of IAG WG 1.4.3 "Interaction Between Celestial and Terrestrial Reference Frames" of IAG Commission 1 "Reference Frames" (2008-2011)
Member of IERS/IVS WG "Second Realization of the ICRF " (2006-2010)
Member of IERS WG on EOP prediction (2005-2009)
Member of IAG GGOS WG "Ground Networks and Communication" (2005-2008)
Member of IVS WG on VLBI2010 (2003-2005)
Member of IVS Directing Board (2003-2007)
Member of IVS WG "Geophysical Models in VLBI Software" (2002-?)
Associate member of IERS (2001-2006)
Member of IVS WG on Product Specification and Observing Programs (2001-2002)
Member of IAU Working Group on Definition of Coordinated Universal Time (2001-2006)
Organizing Committee Member of IAU Commission 19 "Rotation of the Earth" (2000-2006)

♦ Professional

From	Till
		Pulkovo Observatory

Jul 2007		Head of the Lab of Radioastrometry and Geodynamics, Department of Radioastronomy Researches
2006		Organizer and coordinator of the Pulkovo EOP and Reference Systems Analysis Center (PERSAC) and PUL IVS Associate Analysis Center
Aug 2006	Jun 2007	Leading scientist, Department of Radioastronomy Researches

Jan 1986	Sep 1990	Scientist, Senior Scientist, Head of the Group of Investigation of Polar Motion, Lab of Earth Rotation
May 1975	Jan 1986	Junior Scientist, Scientist, Head of the PZT Group at Kitab, Lab of Earth Rotation

		Institute of Applied Astronomy

Feb 2006	Aug 2006	Leading Scientist, Lab of Space Geodesy and Earth Rotation
May 1998	Feb 2006	Head of the Lab of Space Geodesy and Earth Rotation
1995	2006	Head of the EOP Service, organizer and coordinator of the ILRS Associate Analysis Center and IERS Combination Research Center, co-organizer and coordinator of the IVS Analysis Center
Oct 1995	May 1998	Senior scientist, Head of the Group of Determination of EOP and Geodesy, Lab of Time and Coordinate Systems
Sep 1990	Oct 1995	Senior scientist, Lab of Radioastrometry and Geodynamics

		Mendeleev Institute of Metrology

Jan 1973	May 1975	Senior engineer, Lab of Time and Frequency
Aug 1972	Dec 1972	Engineer, Lab of Time and Frequency

♦ Main current research interests

Space geodesy and geodynamics
Computation, investigation, comparison, combination of EOP and radio source catalogs
Algorithms and software for data processing

♦ Publications

Author of 177 papers (94 as sole or first author), including 34 peer-reviewed papers (15 as sole or first author). The full list of publications and presentations includes more than 300 items. Most of papers are available here in both English and Russian, and also in ADS and arXiv.

♦ Conference activities

Scientific/program committee member, convener

All-Russian Astrometry Conference "Pulkovo-2012", St. Petersburg, Russia, 1-5 Oct 2012
7th IVS General Meeting, Madrid, Spain, 4-9 Mar 2012
IAG Commission 1 Symposium REFAG2010, Marne la Vallée, France, 4-8 Oct 2010
IERS Workshop on EOP Combination and Prediction, Warsaw, Poland, 19-21 Oct 2009
All-Russian Astrometry Conference "Pulkovo-2009", St. Petersburg, Russia, 15-19 Jun 2009
5th IVS General Meeting, St. Petersburg, Russia, 3-6 Mar 2008
Positioning and Timing 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia, 11-15 Apr 2005
3rd IVS General Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 9-11 Feb 2004
XXV IAU General Assembly, Joint Discussion 16, Sydney, Australia, 22 Jul 2003
2nd IVS General Meeting, Tsukuba, Japan, 4-7 Feb 2002

Invited presentations

IAG Commission 1 Symposium REFAG2010, Marne la Vallée, France, 4-8 Oct 2010 (speaker)
EGU General Assembly 2008, Vienna, Austria, 13-18 April 2008 (co-author)
Problems of Modern Astrometry, Moscow, Russia, 22-26 Oct 2007 (speaker)
5th APSG Workshop, Hong Kong, P.R. China, 15-17 Jun 2005 (co-author)
Positioning and Timing 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia, 11-15 Apr 2005 (co-author)
Journées 2003, St. Petersburg, Russia, 22-25 Sep 2003 (speaker)
Astrometry, Geodynamics and Celestial Mechanics at the Turn of the XXIth Century, St. Petersburg, Russia, 19-23 Jun 2000 (speaker)
Scientific School "Astronavigation-2000", St. Petersburg, Russia, Mar 21, 2000 (speaker)
IAU Coll. 178 "Polar Motion: Historical and Scientific Problems", Cagliari, Italy, 27-30 Sep 1999 (speaker)
Conference "Modern Problems and Methods of Astrometry and Geodynamics", St. Petersburg, Russia, 23-27 Sep 1996 (speaker)

Contributed presentations

Journées 2011, Vienna, Austria, 19-21 Sep 2011
JENAM-2011, St. Petersburg, Russia, 4-8 Jul 2011
IAG Commission 1 Symposium REFAG2010, Marne la Vallée, France, 4-8 Oct 2010
Journées 2010, Paris, France, 20-22 Sep 2010
EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna, Austria, 02-07 May 2010
6th IVS General Meeting, Hobart, Australia, 7-13 Feb 2010
IERS Workshop on EOP Combination and Prediction, Warsaw, Poland, 19-21 Oct 2009
All-Russian Astrometry Conference "Pulkovo-2009", St. Petersburg, Russia, 15-19 Jun 2009
Positioning, Timing and Navigation 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia, 6-9 Apr 2009
Journées 2008 and X Lohrmann-Kolloquium, Dresden, Germany, 22-24 Sep 2008
AOGS 2008 Annual General Meeting, Busan, Korea, 16-20 Jun 2008
5th IVS General Meeting, St. Petersburg, Russia, 3-6 Mar 2008
Journées 2007, Paris, France, 17-19 Sep 2007
Geo-Siberia 2007, Novosibirsk, Russia, 25-27 Apr 2007
EGU General Assembly 2007, Vienna, Austria, 15-20 Apr 2007
8th IVS Analysis Workshop, Vienna, Austria, 14 Apr 2007
18th EVGA Meeting, Vienna, Austria, 12-13 Apr 2007
Positioning, Timing and Navigation 2007, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2-5 Apr 2007
XIII Assembly of WEGENER, Nice, France, 4-7 Sep 2006
XXVIth IAU General Assembly Prague, Czech Republic, 14-25 Aug 2006
6th International Conference "Problems of Geocosmos", St. Petersburg, 23-27 May 2006
IERS Workshop, Potsdam, Germany, Oct 10-11, 2005
Joint Assembly of the IAG, IAPSO and IABO, Cairns, Australia, 22-26 Aug 2005
Positioning and Timing 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia, 11-15 Apr 2005
5th IVS Analysis Workshop, Ottawa, Canada, 12 Feb 2004
3rd IVS General Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 9-11 Feb 2004
Journées 2003, St. Petersburg, Russia, 22-25 Sep 2003
16th Working Meeting on European VLBI for Geodesy and Astrometry, Leipzig, Germany, 9-10 May 2003
IERS Workshop, Munich, Germany, 18-21 Nov 2002
IERS Workshop, Paris, France, 18-19 Apr 2002
2nd IVS General Meeting, Tsukuba, Japan, 4-7 Feb 2002
Journées 2001, Brussels, Belgium, 24-26 Sep 2001
15th Working Meeting on European VLBI for Geodesy and Astrometry, Barcelona, Spain, 7-8 Sep 2001
IAG 2001 Scientific Assembly, Budapest, Hungary, 2-8 Sep 2001
All-Russian Astronomical Conference 2001, St. Petersburg, Russia, 6-12 Aug 2001
EGS 26th General Assembly, Nice, France, 25-31 Apr 2001
IGS Network Workshop 2000, Oslo, Norway, 12-15 Jul 2000
Astrometry, Geodynamics and Celestial Mechanics at the Turn of the XXIth Century, St. Petersburg, Russia, 19-23 Jun 2000
3rd International Conference "Problems of Geocosmos", St. Petersburg, Russia, 22-26 May 2000
1st IVS General Meeting, Koetzting, Germany, 21-24 Feb 2000
ADASS IX Conference, Hawaii, USA, 3-6 Oct 1999
IAU Coll. 178 "Polar Motion: Historical and Scientific Problems", Cagliari, Italy, 27-30 Sep 1999
2nd International Workshop on Magnetic and Electromagnetic Methods in Seismology and Volcanology, Chania, Greece, 22-24 Sep 1999
7th Yearly Conference "XXI Century: Youth, Education, Ecology, Noosphere", St. Petersburg, Russia, 10-12 Feb 1999
1998 IERS Workshop, Potsdam, Germany, 28 Sep - 2 Oct 1998
14th Workshop on Electromagnetic Induction in the Earth, Sinaia, Romania, 16-22 Aug 1998
2nd International Conference "Problems of Geocosmos", St. Petersburg, Russia, 29 Jun - 3 Jul 1998
3rd International Conference on Problems of Physical Metrology "FIZMET-98", St. Petersburg, Russia, 15-19 Jun 1998
XXVIIth Russian Radio Astronomy Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, 10-14 Nov 1997
Technical Workshop for APT and APSG 1996, Kashima, Japan, 10-13 Dec 1996
Conference "Modern Problems and Methods of Astrometry and Geodynamics", St. Petersburg, Russia, 23-27 Sep 1996
First Workshop of the Subcommission IAG SSC 8.1 "Studies of Baltic Sea", Riga, Latvia, 28-29 Mar 1996
XXVIth Russian Radio Astronomy Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia, Sep 18-22, 1995
5th Russian Symposium "Metrology of Time and Space", Moscow, Russia, 11-13 Oct 1994
Conference "Modern Problems of Theoretical Astronomy", St. Petersburg, Russia, 20-24 Jun 1994
Sixth General Assembly of WEGENER, St. Petersburg, Russia, 20-24 Jun 1994
Theoretical, Applied, and Computational Celestial Mechanics, St. Petersburg, Russia, 12-14 Oct 1993
9th Working Meeting on European VLBI for Geodesy and Astrometry, Bonn, Germany, 30 Sep - 1 Oct 1993
All-Russian Astrometric Conference, Pulkovo, 1993
IAU Symp. 156 "Development in Astrometry and their Impacts on Astrophysics and Geodynamics", Shanghai, China, 15-19 Sep 1992
IAU Symp. 141 "Inertial Coordinate System on the Sky", Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, 17-21 Oct 1989
2nd Orlov Conference, Kiev, Ukraine, 29 Sep - 3 Oct 1986
Symposium "Atmospheric ozone", Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, 15-17 May 1985
23rd Soviet Astrometric Conference, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia, 19-23 Mar 1985
Workshop of the Commission "Rotation of the Earth" of the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia, 22-24 May 1984
Workshop "Rotation of the Earth and Geodynamics", Kitab, Uzbekistan, 12-14 Nov 1983
Workshop of the Commission "Rotation of the Earth" of the Astronomical Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Poltava, Ukraine, 2-4 Oct 1972

♦ Programming

Software for processing of the Pulkovo PZT observations.
Active participation in update of software for processing of the Pulkovo ZTF-135 zenith telescope observations.
GROSS (Geodynamics, Rotation of the Earth, Orbit determination Study Software) package for processing of SLR observations and analysis, comparison, and combination of EOP and station coordinates time series.
Active participation in update of OCCAM package and other software for processing of VLBI observations.
Numerous programs for processing and analysis of space geodesy observations; analysis, comparison, and combination of EOP and station coordinates time series; data exchange.
Fortran library of applied routines MAL (Matematical and Astronomy Library). The library contains about 1000 mathematical, astronomical, geodetic, and service routines of common use.
GAGER (Geodesy, Astrometry, Geodynamics, and Earth Rotation) software merging previous and newest developments is underway.

The total volume of the software is more than 2,000 Fortran modules, DOS batches, and UNIX scripts of the total size more than 7 MB.

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