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IVS2006 Directing Board Elections

Nominees for At-Large Positions

This page provides information about the nominees for At-Large positions on the IVS Directing Board. The nominees are listed alphabetically by their family names. The At-Large members will be elected by the IVS Directing Board.

Andrey Finkelstein
Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
Andrey Finkelstein was born on the 7th of August 1942 in the city of Tavda in Russia's Sverdlovsk region. He graduated from the Faculty of Physics of Leningrad University in 1966 as a specialist in Theoretical Physics. In 1990 he was given the academic status of Doctor of Sciences and in 1999 the rank of professor. In 1999 he received the honored worker of science title from the Russian Federation and since 2003 he is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2004 he was awarded with a Prize of the Russian Government for the development and creation of the new generation radio telescope for space research. Andrey Finkelstein is the director-organizer and the director of the Institute of Applied Astronomy RAS since 1988. In 2001 he got the status of professor at the Department of Radio Physics of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University. He is the head of the Radio Astronomy Department of the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University since 2003. Andrey Finkelstein is a member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and a member of the Committee On Space Research (COSPAR). He is an expert in the field of theoretical physics, relativistic celestial mechanics, radio astronomy, radio astrometry, radio interferometry, and radio astronomy engineering. He is the author and co-author of more than 250 publications including 6 monographs.

Ryuichi Ichikawa
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
Ryuichi Ichikawa is a group sub-leader of the Space-Time Standards Group of the NICT (National institute of Information and Communications Technology; the former CRL), Japan. He obtained his Ph.D. from Hokkaido University in March 1994. From 1995 until now, he has been with the Kashima Space Research Center of the NICT, Kashima, Japan. From 1995 to 1999 he was a member of IAG special study group 1.159 (Use of GPS Positioning for Atmospheric Monitoring). In 1990, he started researching crustal deformation using GPS and he investigated atmospheric delay estimation using numerical weather models. From 1995 until 2001, he was engaged in the geodetic VLBI data analysis of the KSP network. He was envolved in the research of spacecraft tracking using the dVLBI technique during 2002–2005. After 2006 his research fields have also included the development of a compact VLBI system and he resumed his research work on atmospheric delay estimation using numerical weather models. Through his activities he has contributed to NICT's IVS Technology Development Center.

Zinovy Malkin
Pulkovo Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia
Zinovy Malkin is an experienced specialist in analysis of Space Geodesy observations, author of more than 200 publications and presentations. He is an Associate Member of IVS from its beginning in 1999. Zinovy received his PhD from Pulkovo Observatory in 1985, and Dr.Sci. degree from Institute of Applied Astronomy in 1997. He was one of the principal organizers and the primary scientist of the IVS Analysis Center at Institute of Applied Astronomy where he was working in 1990-2006. After moving to Pulkovo Observatory in 2006 he organized Pulkovo IVS Analysis Center and has been working with his colleagues on computation and analysis of EOP and radio source position catalogues and time series. He is presently the Head of the newly organized Laboratory of Radioastrometry and Geodynamics of Pulkovo Observatory. Zinovy served as a member of the IVS Directing Board (2003-2007), IVS Working Group on Product Specification and Observing Programs (2001-2002), IVS Working Group on VLBI2010 (2003-2005), IAU Commission 19 (Rotation of the Earth) Organizing Committee (2000-2006). Now he is a member of the IVS VLBI2010 Committee, IERS/IVS Working Group on ICRF-2, and several Working Groups of IAU and IAG. Zinovy is also a member of the Russian Working Group on VLBI with small antennas. One of his duties in this group is to help coordination with IVS, IAG, and IERS. More details on his biography and scientific activity can be found at http://www.zmalkin.com.

Kazuhiro Takashima
Geographical Survey Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
Since finishing graduate school at Tohoku University (with a Master degree in Information Science), Kazuhiro Takashima has been working for the Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) starting in 1996. The only exception was in 2007, when he taught Advanced Surveying Technologies at the College of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism. Kazuhiro Takashima joined the GSI VLBI group and made domestic and international VLBI experiments with the Kashima 26-m VLBI antenna. He also participated in the construction projects of the Tsukuba 32-m VLBI telescope and the Tsukuba VLBI Correlator; his dedication was instrumental for the successful realization of the project. In 2000-2001, he stayed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a visiting researcher to further study geodetic VLBI. Kazuhiro Takashima has served as Network Representative on the IVS Directing Board since April 2008 as a replacement for Yoshihiro Fukuzaki. He was a member of Working Group 2 (IVS Product Specification and Observing Programs) and was a member of the IVS Observing Program Committee until March 2007. Currently, Kazuhiro Takashima is a Chief Researcher in the Space Geodesy Research Division of GSI.

Xiuzhong Zhang
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, China
Xiuzhong Zhang was born in Shanghai, China, on August 21, 1947. He is the Head of the VLBI Laboratory of the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO). He is a member of the International Astronomical Union and of the Chinese Astronomical Society. From 1970 to 1991, Prof. Zhang did research in Astronomical Technology at the Shannxi Astronomical Observatory. From June 1983 to June 1986 and from November 1989 to December 1990, he visited the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany, to develop a board computer for x-ray satellite ROSAT. From 1991 onward, he has done research in the field of Radio Astronomical Technology at SHAO. As head of the VLBI Laboratory of SHAO he develops VLBI technologies to support the Chinese VLBI stations and the Chinese VLBI data processing center. Examples are a digital baseband converter for the Chinese VLBI Data Aquisition System and an FPGA-based 5-station correlator for the Chinese VLBI Network. Since 2001, he is heavily involved in the application of the VLBI technique in tracking lunar and deep space probes as one of the chief designers.