Biography
Prof. Tamaz D. Kaladze
Prof. Tamaz D. Kaladze
Institute of Applied Mathematics, Tbilisi State University, Georgia
Biography: 

Tamaz D. Kaladze, born in Tbilisi, Georgia, on 25 May, 1945. Graduated Physics Faculty of Tbilisi State University (1967) with Theoretical Physics Speciality. Scientific degrees: 1) Candidate of Sciences (PhD) in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Tbilisi State University, Georgia (1974); 2) Doctor of Sciences (DSc) in Theoretical Physics, Tbilisi State University, Georgia (1990). Degrees awarded from Ministry of Education of USSR, Moscow, Russia. Research Scientist at I. Vekua Institute of Applied Mathematics , Tbilisi State University, Georgia. Awarded by I. Vekua Prize of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (2002).  Award issued by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology of Ministry of Science and Technology Pakistan for Research Productivity (2011, 2012). Published 238 papers in being reviewed journals and conference proceedings; According to Google Scholar indication his citation is 827 and h-index is 16. Invited Professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, Purple Mountain Observatory (2000, 2005-2007); Foreign Professor of Physics Department, Salam Chair, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan (2007-2014, 2017). Member of the Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Conference on Astrophysics and Space Sciences (Beijing, China, 2016); Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (Istanbul, Turkey, 2019). Field of interest: Physics of magnetosphere and ionosphere; Plasma physics of thermonuclear fusion devices; Solar physics; Nonlinear dynamics and chaos. Obtained grants: 1) Lu Jia-Xi Foundation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2000; 2) GRDF – CRDF Bilateral grant of Georgia and USA, USA Civil Research and Development Foundation, 2003 – 2005, award No. 3317; 3) Georgia-U.S. Bilateral Grants Program III, GRDF-CRDF, 2007-2009, award No. 2340; 4) Grant of Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2005 – 2007, award No. 100425312; 5) Grant of Georgian National Science Foundation, 2009-2012; 6) Grant of International Space Science Institute (ISSI, Bern, Switzerland), International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences 2012, project ID-256 , 2012-2014. 7) Grant of 2017 Joint Call of Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), 2019-2021. Collaborator with the famous world-wide scientists : R. Z. Sagdeev, A. B. Mikhailovskii, J.G. Lominadze, K. N. Stepanov, V.I. Petviashvili, O.A. Pokhotelov, W. Horton, D.J. Wu. Scientific achievements: 1) Theory of wave propagation under the conditions of curvelinear tokamak magnetic field, 2) Theory of thermonuclear instabilities caused by alpha-particles, 3) Nonlinear theory of solitary structures generated in the Earth’s ionosphere. URL: http://www.viam.science.tsu.ge/IMPP/wp_kaladze.htm