Michael Nikitin

Background

Graduated from the Geological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Engineering and Environmental Geology, specialty - Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology (2009).

Geologist Engineer at JSC PNIIIS (2006-2011), postgraduate student at the Department of Engineering and Environmental Geology, Faculty of Geology, Lomonosov Moscow State University (2010-2013).

In 2010, he completed an internship at the University of California, Davis.

Since 2011, he has been a researcher at Lomonosov Moscow State University, since 2015, he has been a senior researcher at the Laboratory for studying the influence of geological factors on the physico-chemical fixation of soils at the Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Geology, Deputy Head of the Soil Dynamics Testing Laboratory at the Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Geology.

Since 2021, he has been the General Director of the Moscow State University GEOCENTER LLC.

Co-author of articles in the journals Bulletin of Moscow University, Engineering Geology, Geotechnics, Soil Science, Geoecology.

Research interests: laboratory experimental studies of dispersed soils under static and dynamic conditions.