Vladimir Peskov

Vladimir Peskov is an internationally recognized specialist on instrumentation, plasma diagnostics, and high-energy physics. He was born in the USSR and graduated in 1971 from the Moscow Physical and Technical Institute. He worked at Korolev Space Flight Center (Moscow region) and later (1971-1986) in the Physical Laboratory of the USSR Academy of Sciences led by P.L. Kapitza, where he invented position-sensitive gaseous photodetectors and discovered and investigated new plasma instabilities. In 1976, he obtained a PhD, and in 1981, a Doctor of Science degree (research professor) from the USSR Academy of Sciences. From 1982 until 1992, he worked in the G. Charpak group at CERN. One of his inventions was a gaseous detector combined with CsI photocathodes, which after further developments was used in the high-energy physics experiments ALICE, COMPASS, HADES, and STAR. From 1992 to 1998, he worked in the USA at the Fermi National Laboratory and at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center on instrumentation for high-energy physics and astrophysics. From 1998 to 2004, he served as a guest professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and participated in development of micropattern detectors for medical imaging. From 2004 until 2006, he was professor at the Pole University Leonard de Vinci, Paris. From 2006 until the present time, he is a scientific associate at CERN participating in the ALICE experiment at the LHC.

Publications

Innovative Applications and Developments of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors
Innovative Applications and Developments of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors
Tom Francke, Vladimir Peskov. © 2014. 303 pages.
Study of nature and the world around us has been a primary motivation for scientists and researchers for centuries. Advanced methods in the study of elementary particles have led...