Bio sketch

Edward Shuryak was born in 1948 in Odessa, Ukraine. Participating
in Siberian Mathematic Olympiad, with the second place, he entered
a special school in 1964 and then Novosibirsk State University, graduated in 1970.
For years since he was in Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, the major research
institution of the Academy of Sciences. In 1974 he got his Ph.D. and 
start teaching in Novosibirsk State University. In 1982 was promoted to Full
Professor. Also in that year he was invited to give a series of lectures at CERN,
about Quark-Gluon Plasma, new form of matter the name of which, and certain properties, 
he proposed. Since 1990 till now he is Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University,
leading the Nuclear Theory Center. In 2004 he was promoted to Distinguished Professor,
the highest academic position of SUNY system, and got Dirac medal, from University
of New South Wales, Sydney. In 2005 he was awarded A. von Humboldt prize by Germany.
Three of his most known publications have 1000+ citation record: those are about
instantons in the QCD vacuum, color superconductivity in dense quark matter and quark-gluon plasma in high energy collisions. 6 more papers have 500+ status, and his Hirsch index h=78.