Director of the institute – Prof. Dr. Khusniddin Kosimovich Olimov

Education

• Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (2018)

• PhD (2002)

• Professor (2020)

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Research Interests

• High-Energy Physics and Nuclear Interactions.

• Hadron-Nucleus and Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions at High Energies.

• Properties of Hot and Dense Nuclear (Quark-Gluon) Matter.

• Analysis of Open Data on Heavy Nuclei Collisions from the LHC (Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Switzerland) and RHIC (Brookhaven, USA)

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Professional Activity

• Director, S.A. Azimov Physical-Technical Institute, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, 2021–present

• 2019–present: Professor of the Department (lectures in physics), Almalyk branch of NUST MISIS

• 2015–2019: Professor of Physics (lectures in physics), Inha University, Tashkent

• Head of the Uzbek group (since 2023), international collaboration BM@N (Baryonic Matter at the Nuclotron), JINR (Dubna, Russia)

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Publications

• Number of publications in Web of Science/Scopus journals: over 111 (as of 2026)

• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1879-8458

• Web of Science: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/ABE-2847-2020

• Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6602750562

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Editorial Activity

• Editor and member of the editorial boards of the following journals:

o Advances in High Energy Physics (Wiley) (since 2026)

o Universe (MDPI) (since 2022)

o Frontiers in Physics (since 2022)

o Applied Solar Energy (Pleiades Publishing, Springer) (since 2022)

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Awards and Recognition

• TWAS (The World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy), 2016 — Award for publications in prestigious scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science database

• Science Leader, 2017 — CLARIVATE international award for publications in prestigious scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science database

• Outstanding Reviewer, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics (IOP) — in 2023 and 2024.

• Reviewer of the Year, Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics (IOP) — in 2023.

• Young Scientists' Prize of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan — 2001.

Under the supervision of Prof. Khusniddin Olimov, as of 2026, four PhD dissertations in high-energy nuclear physics have been successfully defended