Some people describe Sergey Zhukov as a test cosmonaut. Others relate to him as a leading expert on space exploration. Some even call him the Skolkovo Spaceman.
The Executive Director of the Space Technologies and Telecoms Cluster will be our guest speaker at professor Golkar’s class on Thursday, May 29. He will present his view on new approaches and challenges related to Human Spaceflight.
May 29th, 1.30-3pm
Hypercube 3rd floor
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Sergey Zhukov, test cosmonaut, skolkovo space director and guest speaker
SPEAKER INTRODUCTION
Sergey Zhukov was born on the 8th of September 1956 in Dzhezkazgan (Kazakhskaya SSR).
He holds a PhD in Technical Sciences, research- cosmonaut, member of the Russian Academy of cosmonautics. Sergey worked in Rocket and Space Corporation “Energia”, was in charge of setting experiments in astrophysics and radio-biology on board of “Mir” orbital station, instructed cosmonauts. In 1991–1993 he was deputy Leader of the Work Group in Cosmonautics with the Government and Supreme Council of Russia.
In 1996 under the RSA auspices Sergey Zhukov founded and chaired CJSC “Russian Technology Transfer Center” on the basis of which the Industrial Center on Patent-Licensing Work and Commercialization of the Research and Development Results was established in 2000. Sergey participated in the founding of Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Technologies” in 1997 and of the space-launch complex “Vostochnyy” in 2007, managed the project development of the Inter-industry innovation center with the defense industry complex in 2007-2010.
Sergey Zhukov is President of the public association “Moscow Space Club”, expert of the Federation Council, author of verse collections and scientific articles. Since 2003 he is a member of the cosmonaut corps of Russia. He is currently Executive Director of the Space Technologies and Communications Cluster of Skolkovo.
* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.