Name: Dmitry M. Grodzinsky, Prof., Dr.

Date and Place of Birth: 5 August, 1929. Belaya Tzerkov, Kiev District, Ukraine

Marital Status: Married, two children.

Education:

• May 1947 - Graduated from School
• April 1952 - Graduated from Faculty of Agronomy at Belaya Tzerkov
• June 1954 - Graduated from Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Moscow State University
• December 1955 - Candidate of Sciences, Kiev, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany
• December 1964 - Doctor of Sciences, Kiev, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
• July 1965 - Professor, Kiev, Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
• March 1974 - Associate Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
• May 1990 - Full Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences

Brief Chronology of Employment:

• 1952-1955 - Postgraduate Student, Institute of Plant Physiology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
• 1955-1957 - Scientific fellow, Institute of Plant Physiology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
• 1957-1962 - Senior Scientific fellow, Institute of Plant Physiology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
• 1962-1963 - Expert of FAO of the UN in Yugoslavia
• 1963-1974 - Head of the Department of Biophysics and Radiobiology at the Institute of Plant Physiology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
• 1974-1985 - Director of the Institute of Plant Physiology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
• 1991-1997 - Head of the Chair of Radiobiology at the Kiev State University
• 1985-date - Head of the Department of Biophysics and Radiobiology of the Institute of Cell Biology and Genetic Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Societies:

• Radiobiological Society of Ukraine (President)
• Ukrainian Association of Plant Biologists
• Plant Physiology Society of Russia (honoured member)

Honours and other special Scientific Recognition:

• 1987 - Member of the International Council for Scientific Development, International Academy of Sciences
• 1989 - Editor-in-Chief of the Scientific Magazine "Radiobiology" (Academy of Sciences of the USSR)
• 1991 - date Head of the National Commission on Radiological Protection at The Supreme Council of Ukraine
• 1994 - Soros Professor
• 1997 - Soros Professor

University teaching:

• 1954 - 1962 Kiev State University Courses: Tracer elements in Plant Physiology and Biochemistry Mathematical modelling of physiological processes in plants
• 1962 - 1963 Yugoslavia, Novi Sad State University Course: Plant physiology
• 1963 - 1978 Kiev State University Course: Photosynthesis
• 1979 - 1986 Kiev State University Course: Bioenergetics
• 1986 - date National Kiev University Tarasa Shevchenko Courses: General Radiobiology Reliability of biological systems Mechanisms of Reparation in Cells
• 1993 - date University "Kiev-Mohilayanskaya Academia" Course: Homeostasis in Biological Systems

Present address:

Ukraine, 252127, Vasilkovskaya street, 31/17 Kiev
Tel. +(380 44) 2636167, +(380 44) 2352360, +(380 44) 2614036 (home)
fax. +(380 44) 2671050
e-mail dmgrod@ukrpack.net

Bibliography:

About 600 scientific papers and 18 monographs. The main monographs are:

1. "Естественная радиоактивность растений и почв" (Natural Radioactivity of Plants and Soils). -Киев: Наукова думка, 1965.-216 с.
2. "Защита растений от лучевого поражения" (Protection of Plants against Radiation Injury). -Москва: Атомиздат, 1973, -232 с. (coauthor Gudkow I.N.)
3. "Plant Biophysics" (Translated from Russian), 1976, Keter Publishing House, Jerusalem, -236 P.
4. "Надежность растительных систем" (Reliability of Plant Systems). -Киев: Наукова думка, 1983. -367 с.
5. "Радиобиология растений" (Plant Radiobiology). - Киев: Наукова думка, 1989. -380 с.
6. "Антропогенная радионуклидная аномалия и растения" (Anthropogenic Radionuclide Anomaly and Plants). -Киев: Лыбедь, 1991. -157 с. (Editor)
7. “Радіобіологія” (Radiobiology (Textbook for Universities)). -Київ, 2000. -448 с.