Hello, my name is Petr Miklyaev, I am 35 year old. I am a PhD in geology, employed as a senior researcher at the Sergeev Institute of Environmental Geoscience, Russian Academy of Sciences.
Petr Miklyaev - Russia
For more than 10 years I have been being involved in the investigation of radon occurring in the environment and the earth’s crust and in the radon risk assessment. The distribution and behavior of radioactive elements (including radon) in the earth’s crust and radon migration from the Earth’s interior to the surface is the basic field of my research. The main aim of my study is the development of quantitative methods of radon hazard prediction in the buildings under construction. Being an author of 85 scientific publications, I have published 27 papers that are particularly devoted to this topic.
A profession of geologist interested me since my childhood. I dreamed of traveling far away, of sleeping in an open air and cooking my meal at a fire. I was always interested in secrets of the Earth’s interior. It is difficult to imagine that mankind have penetrated into the Earth for only 15 km deep (a distance comparable to that between two neighbor settlements), whereas the space journeys for many thousand and even millions kilometers are quite common now. Now, after having graduated from the Moscow State University (1997) and having defended my PhD thesis (in 2002), I still preserve the romantic attitude to life. I go in for downhill skiing and tourism, I like mountains, hot sun and good strong wine. I was married, and my daughter is 16 years old now. She also wishes to become a geologist.
In the future, I plan to expand and deepen my knowledge and to implement it intensely into practice for providing ecologically safe construction.