Anatoly Belonoshko


Belonoshko 

Anatoly B. Belonoshko works at the Department of Physics of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.

He graduated from Moscow State University in the field of Mechanical Engineering and then worked at the USSR Academy of Sciences. After defending his dissertation at the Institute of Chemical Physics in Moscow, he received a postdoc position at the Institute of Earth Sciences of Uppsala University and continued his research at Uppsala University at the Department of Physics. His research interests are in applying computational methods to study materials under extreme conditions, in particular minerals in the deep interior of the Earth. He published more than 100 papers (among them are papers in Nature, Science, Nature Geoscience, PRL etc.) in this field. His research on the Earth Inner Core was highlighted by Swedish and international media. For his studies he was elected a fellow of American Physical Society.