International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Alexander Baklanov

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Elected an Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) on 15 November 2017, Professor Alexander A. Baklanov is a leading Russian-born atmospheric and environmental scientist whose career has bridged fundamental geophysics, atmospheric modelling, and the global governance of urban climate and air quality. Born on 5 July 1957, he received his M.Sc. in Physics from Yaroslavl State University and Novosibirsk State University in 1979, followed by a Ph.D. in Physics and Mathematics (Geophysics) from the Novosibirsk Computing Centre of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1983 and a Doctor of Science (Dr.Scient.) in Meteorology and Climatology from the Russian State Hydrometeorological University in St. Petersburg in 1998. His early career at the Kola Science Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences led to leadership of the Department of Mathematical Modelling of the Environment at the Institute of Northern Environmental Problems and directorship of the International Environmental Information Centre Econord. After research and visiting appointments in Sweden and Austria, he joined the Danish Meteorological Institute, where he served as Senior Scientist from 1998 to 2014 and as Vice-Director of the Danish Strategic Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Health from 2007 to 2012. Since 2011, he has held an Affiliated Professorship at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, and since 2014 has served as Scientific Officer in the Research Department of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in Geneva. A Member of Academia Europaea since 2018 and a PEEX Fellow since 2017, he was awarded the Gold Medal of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2015.

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Professor Baklanov’s research centres on online coupled meteorology–chemistry modelling, with particular emphasis on boundary-layer meteorology, mesoscale numerical weather prediction, atmospheric aerosol dynamics, and the interactions between megacity air quality, local climate, and global climate change. As an initiator and European coordinator of seamless integrated modelling, he has advanced an approach that treats atmospheric physics and chemistry as an interconnected system, leading major international initiatives including FUMAPEX, MEGAPOLI, EnviroHIRLAM, and EuMetChem. His work has also contributed to the development of the WMO methodology for integrated urban hydrometeorological, climate, and environmental systems, strengthening the scientific basis for resilient and sustainable cities. Since its establishment, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of Urban Climate. With approximately 400 scientific publications, including 14 books and nearly 200 peer-reviewed papers, his work has received more than 8,400 citations and an h-index of 45. His representative publications in Urban Climate, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Geoscientific Model Development, Atmospheric Environment, and Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics reflect a sustained contribution to integrated atmospheric modelling and to understanding the links between urbanisation, air quality, climate, and the wider Earth system.