Leonid Pastur

Born in 1937 in the Vinnitsa region (Ukraine). Received his MS degree in applied physics from the Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute in 1961, Kharkiv (Ukraine) and joined the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkiv (Ukraine) in the same year as junior researcher. He received the candidate of science degree (PhD) in theoretical and mathematical physics and the doctor of science degree (habilitation) from the same Institute. At the same Institute he has held the positions of chief researcher (an analog of professor), the head of laboratory and the deputy director. He also has held the positions of professor at the Kharkiv State University (1/2 time) and at the University Paris VII Denis Diderot. He served as the head of a panel and then as the head of the Fund of Fundamental Researches of Ukraine. He is member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the doctor "honoris causa" of the Kharkiv State University, the University of Ruhr (Bochum, Germany) and of the N. Bogolyubov Institute of Theoretical Physics (Kyiv, Ukraine), the Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Other honours include the State Prize on Science and Technology of Ukraine, the N. Bogolyubov Prize and the M.Ostrogradsky Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He was an invited speaker at the 1986 International Congress of Mathematicians, the 1988 International Congress of Mathematical Physics and the 1996 European Congress of Mathematicians and a plenary speaker at the 1992 International Congress of Mathematical Physics. He is a chief researcher of the ILTPE since 2017. Professor Pastur's research concerns a wide range of problems of theoretical and mathematical physics of disordered systems and related problems of spectral operator theory and probability theory.