Valerii N. Malinin
Position: professor
Academic degree: Grand PhD in Geography
Academic title: Professor
E-mail: malinin@rshu.ru
Department: UNESCO-IOC Applied Oceanography and Integrated Coastal Zone Management
ScopusID: 7006685566
AuthorID: 60946
SPIN: 8945-0830
Biography. In 1972, he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Marine Engineering School named after Admiral S.O. Makarov with a degree in oceanology. After graduation, he worked at the Institute of Biology of Inland Waters of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), at the State Hydrological Institute. In 1978, he successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Since 1982, he has been working at the Leningrad State Hydrometerological Institute (nowadays RSHU), where he went through all the teaching stages: from assistant to professor. In 1994 he successfully defended his doctoral thesis "Large-scale moisture exchange in the ocean-atmosphere-land system", being at the interface of several Earth sciences.
Scientific and educational activity. His research interests are global hydrology, physical oceanography, climate change, marine forecasts, and statistical hydrometeorology. He is a well-known scientist in the country and abroad who has made a significant contribution to the development of a number of new scientific directions at the interface of various earth sciences: oceanology, hydrology, meteorology, climatology and methods of long-term forecasting of various characteristics, their practical implementation being the publication of 10 monographs and more than 200 articles. For many years, he was the Head of grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, the Committee for Science and Higher Education of the St. Petersburg Government, contractual projects of leading industry institutes. He pays a lot of attention and efforts to educational work and training of highly qualified specialists. Seven textbooks and teaching aids have been produced, the fundamental textbook "Hydrosphere of the Earth", which is, in fact, an encyclopedia about natural water, having been awarded a diploma at the competition "To the 300th anniversary of the city - 300 best textbooks". He has developed and given lectures on "Theory of the Hydrosphere", "General Oceanology", "Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Hydrometeorological Information", "Multivariate Statistical Analysis", "Climatology", etc. He is the advisor of a large number of bachelors, specialists, masters, post graduate students, 7 dissertations having been defended under his supervision in recent years.
Scientific and social activities. He is a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, laureate of the St. Petersburg Government Award named after M.I. Budyko in 2016 in the field of geography, atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences for outstanding achievements in science and technology, a head of the leading scientific and educational school of St. Petersburg "Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Change", a Chairman of the Dissertation Board on Hydrology and Oceanology and a member of another two dissertation boards, an editor-in-chief of a scientific and theoretical journal included in the VAK List "Proceedings of the Russian State Hydrometerological University", a member of the editorial board of journals included in the VAK List "Problems of the Arctic and Antarctic" and "Society. Environment. Development", a head of the scientific and educational center of the oceanological faculty, an expert of the federal register of experts in the scientific and technical sphere.
Address:
St. Petersburg, Malokhtinsky pr., 98
