Vladimir Peskov Vladimir Peskov is a chief scientist at the Institute for Chemical Physics Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) working currently at CERN for ALICE experiment. He obtained his academic degrees (Ph.D) in 1976 and Doctor of Sciences in 1982 from the Instiute of Physical Problems, RAS, in Moscow. He worked there on plasma studies in the Physics Laboratory RAS led by P.L. Kapitza, and developed new methods and instruments for plasma diagnostic in far ultraviolet allowing to discover some new phenomena in plasma. From 1986 he mainly worked abroad: at CERN (in Charpak’s group), Fermi National Laboratory, NASA and the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, on the instrumentation for high energy physics, astrophysics and medicine. He has developed photosensitive gaseous photomultipliers which have been used in several experiments, including ALICE. He is an author and co-author of more than 250 publications, two scientific books and twelve International patents, member of the International Scientific Advisory and Organizing Committees in several conferences and workshops. For many years served as an editor of Journal of Instrumentation. Read More Read Less