About Lev Zelyony
Lev Matveevich Zelenyi (Russian: Лев Матвеевич Зелёный, born August 23, 1948) is a Soviet and Russian physicist, an expert in space plasma physics, the physics of solar-terrestrial relations, nonlinear dynamics and planetary research. He is an Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2008, Corresponding Member 2003), Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor. He served as Director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2002-2017), ultimately as scientific advisor. He was vice president of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2013–2017, and member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2008), and a full member of the International Academy of Astronautics. His main area of scientific activity is the physics of space plasma. He has published more than 700 scientific articles, and has about 7,000 citations of his works published after 1975.
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