Yurii Meshcheryakov

Yurii Meshcheryakov is a professor and a laboratory head at the Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Science. His work is widely concerned with investigation and characterization of materials under shock loading and shock wave propagation in condensed matter. He received his Ph.D. degree in solid physics from the State Institute of Special Devices "Granit", Saint Petersburg, in 1967, and his Doctor of Science degree in physics-mathematical sciences, mechanics,...See more

Yurii Meshcheryakov is a professor and a laboratory head at the Institute of Problems of Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Science. His work is widely concerned with investigation and characterization of materials under shock loading and shock wave propagation in condensed matter. He received his Ph.D. degree in solid physics from the State Institute of Special Devices "Granit", Saint Petersburg, in 1967, and his Doctor of Science degree in physics-mathematical sciences, mechanics, and physics of solids from Saint Petersburg State University in 1984. He moved to his current affiliation as a laboratory head in 1986 and has been a professor there since 1994. He was given an Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation Award in 2000 and the Medal In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg in 2003. See less