Odintsov, Sergei
ICREA Research Professor at Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (CSIC - ICE).
Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
Short biography
ICREA Research Professor at ICE (CSIC-IEEC) since 2003. Author of about 700 articles cited over 55000 times. Two ms were cited more than 2500 times, while six ms and two books - more than 1000 times. Foreign Member of the Royal Norwegian Academy, member of Eur. Phys. Soc., Italian Grav. Soc. Awarded by Amaldi Gold Medal: European Prize for Grav. Physics 2014. Editorial Board Member of six journals and referee of about 20 journals (with dozen excellence certificates). Hirsh index h=115(Google S.), h=105(inspirehep), h=97(Scopus). Supervisor of 12 PhDs. Speaker/lecturer of 120 conf. and organizer of 40 int. workshops. Top Cited Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Researcher in 2014-2018. Web.of Science 2017 Award. TSPU Silver Medal (2017), Medal of Tomsk regional gov-t (2019). Honorary Professorship: TSPU(2019) and TUSUR(2020),Tomsk.
Research interests
I develop the theory which should describe our universe evolution. My main purpose is to formulate the realistic alternative to Einstein gravity in order to resolve the fundamental puzzle of modern cosmology: why and how the universe accelerates? In fact, I proposed the first modified gravity which may describe the unification of the early-time inflation and late-time acceleration, i.e.consistent universe history. We also proposed a bouncing universe in modified gravity as scenario that is alternative to the inflation. The alternative gravity we develop should describe the whole sequence of the universe eras: inflation, radiation-matter dominance and dark energy era. We also continue the search for exotic intermediate eras like pre-inflationary or exotic reheating era. The study of current universe clarifies its future: if it will expand eternally or if its evolution will be finished in the future singularity.