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Andrey Korotayev | |
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Born | Moscow, Soviet Union | 17 February 1961
Nationality | Russian |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Known for | contributions to mathematical modelling of the World System development and cross-cultural studies |
Awards | Russian Science Support Foundation Award in "The Best Economists of the Russian Academy of Sciences" nomination (2006)[1] In 2012 he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal[2] by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation. |
Scientific career | |
Fields | cross-cultural studies, mathematical modelling of social, economic, and historical dynamics; Islamic and pre-Islamic history |
Institutions | HSE University (Moscow) Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) Institute for Advanced Study(Princeton) Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow) |
Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev (Russian: Андре́й Вита́льевич Корота́ев; born 17 February 1961) is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, demographer and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, Big History, and mathematical modelling of social and economic macrodynamics.[3]
He is currently the Director of the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow,[4] and a Senior Research Professor at the Center for Big History and System Forecasting of the Institute of Oriental Studies[5][6] as well as in the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[7]
In addition, he is a senior research professor of the International Laboratory on Political Demography and Social Macrodynamics (PDSM) of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration,[8] as well as a full professor of the Faculty of Global Studies of the Moscow State University.[9]
He is co-editor of the journals Social Evolution & History and Journal of Globalization Studies,[10] as well as History & Mathematics[11] yearbook[12]
Together with Askar Akayev and George Malinetsky he was in 2008-2018 a coordinator of the Russian Academy of Sciences Program "System Analysis and Mathematical Modeling of World Dynamics".[13]