
Mikhail Kovalchuk
Independent Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Technology Committee
Year of birth: 1946
First elected to the Supervisory Board of the Bank in 2020.
Has no equity interest in the share capital of SberBank.
Has no kinship with other persons who are members of SberBank’s management bodies and bodies supervising SberBank’s financial and business operations.
Career
2016 – present: Head of the Crystallography research group at the Crystallography and Photonics Federal Scientific and Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2015 – present: President of Russian Research Center Kurchatov Institute
2013 – present: Professor of the Nuclear-Physical Analysis Methods Department at St Petersburg University (with the assignment of duties of the Head of Department, with the assignment of duties of the Head of the Physics Faculty)
2010–2015: the founder and the first Director of the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
2013 – present – Head of Research of the Nano-, Bio-, Information and Cognitive Technologies Faculty of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology;
2009 to present: Head of the Optics, Spectroscopy, and Nanosystem Physics Department (until 2014 – the Nanosystem Physics Department) of Lomonosov Moscow State University
2005–2010: Director of the National Research Centre Kurchatov Institute
1998–2013: Director of the Shubin Institute of Crystallography of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Education
Zhdanov Leningrad State University
Graduation year: 1970
Qualification: physics (physics of X-rays)
Major and/or Degree Program: physics
Degree:
2000 – Corresponding Fellow of the Russian Academy of Sciences
1998 – Professor
1988 – PhD in Physics and Mathematics
Awards
Full cavalier of the Order For Services to the Fatherland: Class IV (2006), Class III (2011), Class II (2016), Class I (2018)
2018 – laureate of the international prize Stars of the Commonwealth
2015 – UNESCO Medal for contributions to the development of nanoscience and nanotechnologies
2011 – Medal for National Security Services
2012 – laureate of the prize in education from the Government of the Russian Federation
2009 – laureate of the E.S. Fedorov prize from the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2006 – laureate of the prize in science and technology from the Government of the Russian Federation