Александр Макаров | Директор, Арктический и антарктический научно-исследовательский институт

Aleksander Makarov – geomorphologist, doctor of geographical sciences, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

PhD and doctoral theses are devoted to the variability of the Arctic environment over the past ten thousand years. Alexander Makarov's research interests include the paleogeography of the earth's polar regions in the Holocene, as well as the Sea Level variability.

In 2000 entered St. Petersburg State University on faculty of geography and geoecology, Department of geomorphology. In June 2005 he joined the Department of geography of the polar states of AANII and continued his active expedition and research work. In 2003-2009, annually participated in the organization and conduct of international Russian-German expeditions to The Lena Delta, and from 2010 to 2015 led these expeditions. In 2009, on the basis of the collected materials he defended his PhD thesis on the specialty "Geomorphology and evolutionary geography" on " Laptev Sea Level Fluctuations as a Factor in the Formation of The Lena Delta in the Holocene", in 2017 – doctoral thesis on "Fluctuations of Level of the Arctic Seas in the Holocene". Participated in the creation of a new modern research station on the island Samoilovsky. In 2016, he was appointed to the position of Deputy Director of Federal State Budgetary Institution AANII, after which headed the work on the creation of The Russian scientific center on Svalbard archipelago. Since September, 2017 holds a post of the Director of the Arctic and Antarctic research Institute of Roshydromet.