Danis Nurgaliev

Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences
Director of the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies
Doctor of Science in Geology and Mineralogy
Chief Research Associate of the Laboratory of Paleoecology, Paleoclimatology and Paleomagnetism
Chief Research Associate of the Center for Digital Earth
Chief Research Associate of the World-Class Research Center in Liquid Hydrocarbons

Birth date: 1 September 1956

Tertiary education
1978 – Kazan State University, geology and geophysics

Career
1997-2007 – Chair of the Department of Geophysical Exploration
2007-2010 – Vice-Rector for Research and Informatization
2010-2020 – Vice-Rector for Research
Since 2020 – Vice-Rector for Earth Sciences

Research interests: rock magnetism, paleomagnetism, ancient climate, bottom sediments of lakes, geo-information technology, formation and destruction of oil and gas deposits, geodynamic processes of oil and gas bearing rocks, geological and geophysical technology of hydrocarbon exploration, tidal modulation of geophysical fields, geophysical methods in archeology

Commendations

Distinguished Explorer of Resources of Russia (1999)

Distinguished Worker of Science of Tatarstan (2005)

Tatarstan State Award in Science and Technology (2009)

Russian Governmental Prize in Science and Technology (2018)

Distinguished Worker of Science of Russia (2023)