Biography

Scientific background:

1976: Graduated from the Moscow State University, Psychology Department, Chair of Psychology of Work and Engineering Psychology

1976-1979: Post-graduate course of the Psychology Department of the Moscow State University; obtained the degree of "Candidate of Psychological Sciences" at the Moscow State University. Title of the Thesis "Sporadic errors of human operator and methods its preventation" (1981)

1979-1988: researcher of the Institute of Protection of Work, Institute of Aviation and Space Medicine, etc

1989-1990: Chief psychologist of the Civil aviation of the USSR

1990-1992: researcher of the Centre of Human Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences

from 1992: Head of the Laboratory of Virtualistics of the Institute of Human Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences)

1994: obtained the degree of "Doctor of Psychological Sciences" at the State Institute of Technical aesthetics. Title of the Thesis "Psychology of Virtual Realities and Analisys of Human Operator's Errors".

1997: Laboratory of Virtualistics is transformed in Centre of Virtualistics.

Subjects of interest: aviation psychology, human errors, altered states of consciousness, philosophy and psychology of virtual reality, human resource. Published 70 articles and 10 books (in Russian): "Design of Work Activity: 1910-1919. Texts" (Moscow, VNIITE, 1985; ed. by N.Nosov and other); "Pilot errors: psychological causes" (Moscow, Transport, 1990); "Psychological virtual realities" (Moscow, Institute of Human Studies, 1994); "Psychology of Angels" (Moscow, ITAR- TASS, 1995); "The Parallel Words: Virtual Psychology of Alcoholism" (Moscow, Institute of Human Studies, 1996, joint authors - Ju.T.Yatsenko); "Virtual Realities in Psychology and Psychopractise" (Moscow, Institute of Human Studies, 1996; ed. by N.Nosov and O.Genisuretsky); "Technology of Virtual Realities: State and Perspectives" (Moscow, ITAR- TASS, 1996; ed. by N.Nosov); "Control of Human Resources: Psycological problems" (Moscow, "Magister", 1996; ed. by Yu.Zabrodin and N.Nosov); "Virtual Reality. Philosophical and Psychological Problems" (Moscow, Institute of Human Studies, 1997); "Virtual Person. Essey on virtual psychology of chilhood" (Moscow, Magistr, 1997). <