Boris Nikolaevich KolbasovDr. Kolbasov graduated from Moscow Mechanical Institute with an honours diploma in Design, manufacture and utilization of physical devices and facilities before becoming a Reseach Fellow and then Senior Engineer at the Institute of Atomic Energy, Mosow, where he was responsible for developing gas-cooled power reactors. He then became Senior Research Fellow and head of a fusion reactor engineering and physical study group at the I.V. Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy (KIAE), before becoming Laboratory Head, Deputy Head of the Fusion Engineering and Physical Study Division at KIAE where he participated in the development of the INTOR, OTR, and ITER fusion reactors. Dr. Kolbasov is currently Senior Research Fellow at the National Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute" where he is responsible for the development of the DEMO-TIN fusion neutron source, and is also the deputy editor-in-chief for a Russian-language journal. He has received many awards including the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the President of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Atomic Energy (1970, 1985, 1997, and 1998). Read More Read Less