Bakhtiyar Sirajov

Bakhtiyar Sirajov (Bəxtiyar Tahir oğlu Siracov/Бəxтияр Тaһир oғлу Сирaҹoв, ; born 21 October 1957) is a nuclear scientist whose team was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He is holding PhD degree in Physics and Mathematics. Since 1995 Sirajov works for International Atomic Energy Agency.

Biography
Bakhtiyar Sirajov was born in 1957 in Baku. After graduating school in Baku in 1974, he got accepted the Applied Mathematics faculty of Azerbaijan State University (now Baku State University).

After graduating from university in 1979, Sirajov started working at Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. Between 1980 and 1981, he engaged in scientific researches in Russian Academy of Sciences. From 1987 to 1988, he worked in Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 1990, he defended his thesis and became a PhD. After participating in developing various software projects in a private IT company from 1992 to 1995, Sirajov started working at International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria.

Awards
In 2005, Mohamed ElBaradei and the IAEA, which Bakhtiyar Sirajov was part of the team, were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to prevent nuclear energy from being used for military purposes and to ensure that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes is used in the safest possible way".

Publications

 * TANK MONITORING EVALUATION SYSTEMS: METHODS AND ALGORITHMS (2009)