User:თაკო მამადაშვილი/Paata Kervalishvili

Paata Kervalishvili( September 17, 1949, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR) – Georgian physicist, professor at the department of Physics within Georgian Technical University, as well as Professor of the faculty of exact and natural sciences of Tbilisi State University.

Early life and education
His parents were Medea Kiknavelidze and Jamlet Kervalishvili, both had attained a doctorate. Paata successfully finished the 1st middle school of Tbilisi in 1966. He received his B.S. and M.S. in engineering physics from Georgian Technical University. From 1970 until 1992 prof. Kervalishvili had been working for Soviet atomic energy and weapon industry( in different research and technology centers within the USSR Middle Machinery Ministry: Sukhumi Physical-Technical Institute, The Soviet State institute of Rare Metals, Institute of Stable Isotopes, Igor Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy).

Scientific career
He is Professor at Georgian Technical University from 1984 and works at Tbilisi State University from 1998. From 1994 until 1999 he had been working at the Parliament of Georgia. He worked for the Government of Georgia as Secretary of State in the State Committee for Science and Technology, Assistant to President of the State in Science and Technology.

He got his Ph.D. in The Soviet State institute of Rare Metals in 1979, in the Kurchatov Institude of Atomic Energy he got his degree of Doctor of physics and mathematics in 1985. Prof. Kervalishvili got USSR Professor State title in 1989.

He established the Technology Center of Sensing Systems in Georgia in 1991. He is a member of presidium of Engineering Academy of Georgia since 1994.

Currently he is the president of Georgian Academy of Natural Sciences and the president of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences(EMAAS) since 2008.

Dr. Kervalishvili received more than 20 prestigious prizes and state orders and continues his career abroad in scientific academies and universities of Athens, Paris, Kiev, Ferrara, Massachusetts, California, etc.

Prof. Kervalishvili has served in several directions of physics and technology as: condensed matter, molecular and quantum physics, nuclear and laser technologies, sensory systems, energy and information technologies. He is an author of more than 450 scientific publications, books, manuals and inventions and among them scientific bestsellers published by IOS Press, Pergamon Press, Springer.

He was a director and coordinator of more than 90 projects in the USA, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, England.

He also was the Chairman of more than 60 International Forums and Conferences.

Prof. Kervalishvili was the head of the EU-funded project “NANOMAT”. During the project period it was accomplished to make experimental and theoretical works about laser spectroscopy of nanosystems with the laboratory of Paris-Sud University.

Member of a group, organization or association

 * 2009 — the president of Georgian Academy of Natural Sciences
 * 2008 — the president of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences(EMAAS)
 * 2004 — member of European Academy of Natural Sciences(Hannover)
 * 1997 — member of Georgian Academy of Natural Sciences
 * 1994 — member of presidium of the Engineering Academy of Georgia

Honours and awards

 * 2019 – honorary doctorate of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University
 * 1978, 1983 – USSR State Award in Science and Technology
 * 1979 – USSR Academy of Sciences Golden Medal
 * 1999 – Order of Honor(Georgia)
 * 2001,2004 – Orders Golden Eagle and Peter the Great
 * 2003 – Cross of Honor
 * 2008 – V. Vernadsky Medal of Honor of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Badge of Honor(MIT), Medal of Honor(KPI), etc

Literature

 * Georgia: Encyclopedia: vol. IV, pg. 630-631, Tbilisi, 2018.