Draft:Paata Kervalishvili

Paata Kervalishvili (born September 17, 1949 in Tbilisi) has been president of the Georgian Academy of Natural Sciences since 2009 and President of the Euro-Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2010. He is or has been a Candidate of Technical Sciences (1979, Giredmet, Moscow), Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (1985, Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow), and Professor of the USSR (1989, Moscow). He was born to a family of scientific workers, doctors Medea Kiknavelidze and Jamlet Kervalishvili.

In 1966, he graduated with a gold medal from the 1st school (classical Gymnasium) of Tbilisi, which he entered in 1956. During his studies in this oldest educational establishment (Opened at 1802 as Noble school and late at 1830 as men’s gymnasium) with the great cultural traditions he met many talented young people later becomes the famous scientists and artists and grown there in patriotic environment.

In 1971, he successfully graduated from the Engineering-Physics Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute of Georgia, and subsequently from the post-graduate course of the Moscow Institute of Giredmet, where he worked under the guidance of the Famous scientist Georgi Fliorov and Lev Goncharov. In Giredmet, he was awarded the degree of candidate of technical sciences (Ph.D. and Dr. Eng.) and the title of senior scientific worker.

Since 1970, Paata Kervalishvili has connected his work with the atomic program of the Soviet Union. He started his carrier in the legendary Sukhumi Institute of Physics and Technology Soviet Atomic program establishment, founded by the leaders of Soviet Union, then he was transferred to the Institute of Stable Isotopes and later to Giredmet one of the world leading institutes of material science. Since 1980, he has been at the Institute of Atomic Energy and at the same time at the Institute of Stable Isotopes in Tbilisi. During the Soviet period, despite of the young age he led number of secret Soviet Union science and technology programs. Among them: Elaboration of germanium based nuclear radiation detectors; Creation of regulatory systems for fast-neutron nuclear reactors; Development of medium-mass isotope separation technologies, research and development of laser devices for space purposes, and others. During this period, he received the 1978 Lenin Komsomol Prize in Physics (under the guidance of Nobel laureate Nikolas Basov and Alexander Elutin) and subsequently various state awards. At the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, he worked under the guidance of uranium isotopes technology designer, famous physicist Isaac Kikoin (one of the leaders of the USSR atomic project). Here he defended his doctoral thesis and was immediately assigned to co-head of the Scientific Council in one of the main scientific directions.

In 1990, Paata Kervalishvili, a well-known scientist and head of project programs, left for the USA, Berkeley (after April 9, 1989 tragedy in Tbilisi, he decided to say goodbye to Moscow, in 1989 he was in Geneva-Cern, but it turned out to be quite difficult to leave the atomic program) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory following of Joe Wetch invitation, where he also worked in 1991.

In 1992-1993, Paata Kervalishvili worked in scientific and industrial centers of Italy and Germany (Milan, Kiel, Stuttgart, Hanau), where he participated in the creation of various types of precession materials and fuel technologies, as well as in scientific projects together with Italian and German universities.

From 1994 to 2000, Professor Kervalishvili is in the Government of Georgia, where he heads international scientific (State Committee for Science and Technology) and innovative (Ministry of Communications and Presidential Council) programs and projects.

Since 1984, P. Kervalishvili is a professor at the Technical University of Georgia; Visiting professor of Tbilisi State University since 1998. He is actively involved in international scientific and technological programs and projects in the scientific centers and universities of the USA, Germany, England, France, Italy, Greece (University of California - Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hannover and Stuttgart Universities, Fraunhofer Society Institutes, Universities of Cranfield and Cambridge, Universities of Paris and Bordeaux, Universities of Rome and Ferrara, National Kapodistrian and Technical Universities of Athens and many others. P. Kervalishvili is the author of more than 500 scientific works, including 35 inventions and patents, and several books published by top-level publishing houses (IOS Press, Springer, etc.) A man in process: The meaning in the seeking and considered scientific bestsellers. Under his leadership, more than 40 international conferences have been held in different countries. He participated in more than 50  conferences as the main invited speaker. He is a member of the editorial board of about 20 world-renowned scientific journals. In 1994-1999, he was a member of the NATO Scientific Council. It should be noted that for the first time Paata gave a scientific report in the field of physics of sensors at the NATO conference back in 1991 in the USA, which resulted in a great response. In 1989, P. Kervalishvili was awarded the state scientific title of professor of the USSR. More than 20 doctoral theses have been defended under his guidance.

In 1991, on the initiative of Paata Kervalishvili, the Scientific and Technological Center of Sensor Systems was established in Georgia. In 1994, he was elected to the Engineering Academy of Georgia, currently he is a member of the Presidium of this Academy. In 1997, Paata Kervalishvili was elected a member of the Georgian Academy of Natural Sciences; He is currently the president of this academy. In 2010, Professor Paata Kervalishvili was elected as the President of the Euro-Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences (Athens, Lausanne).

Paata Kervalishvili is the owner of more than 20 prestigious prizes and awards, a member of many international academies and councils. More than 50 international scientific projects and programs were carried out under the leadership of Professor Kervalishvili.

In the recent years, under the leadership of P. Kervalishvili, unique research is being conducted in Georgia and abroad in the direction of determining the vibrational properties of nano particles, which led his group to the creation of laser-spectrometric methods of resonance processing of nano biosystems, including pathogens. He is also leader of several international project of prepararion of 2D spintronic and spinquant structures by Laser Plasma  method. Since 2023, Professor Kervalishvili is a member of the steering committee of the scientific-technological European-American-Japanese program of proton-boron nuclear fusion.