Mikhail Kirsanov, born 25.07.1960 in Tula (Russia).
Graduated from Moscow Physical - Technical Institute (Moscow), department of General and Applied Physics, qualification: physicist in Experimental Nuclear Physics.
In 1983 Started to work in the Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Department of Neutrino Physics, laboratory of the IHEP - JINR Neutrino Detector.
1994 - PhD in physics, thesis based on the result published as: Blumlein J. ...Kirsanov M.M. et al., "Search for prompt neutrinos in the proton beam-dump on iron.", Phys.Lett.B279, (1991) p.405.
1994 - 1996 - Postdoctoral position in the Florence Section of INFN (Italy)
1997 - Transfer to the Institute for Nuclear Research (Moscow) in order to continue to work in NOMAD.
Mikhail Kirsanov is the author or co-author of more than 1000 publications.
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Activities in HEP:
1983 - 1986 - Participation in the technology development for the construction of the Neutrino Detector (scintillation counter design, white-spirit purification).
1986 - 1988 - Building the installation for the tests of the phototubes with individual high voltage sources and tests of 800 such units.
1983 - 1989 - Participation in the development of the physics program for the Neutrino Detector.
1983 - 1994 - Participation in the development of the s/w for the Neutrino Detector (simulation and reconstruction).
1988 - 1994 - Participation in the runs of the Neutrino Detector, physical analysis of the data.
1994 - Joining NOMAD collaboration and work in the NOMAD experiment.
1995 - 1998 - work in the runs of NOMAD and NOMAD ECAL test beams.
1994 - 2001 - s/w development for NOMAD and NOMAD data analysis.
1997 - 2001 - Joining the INR - IHEP collaboration working on the installation ISTRA (rare pion and kaon decays). Work on ISTRA Geant3 and Geant4 simulation programs.
1998 - Joining CMS collaboration.
1999 - 2007 - work in the CMS ECAL test beam runs
1999 - 2010 - development of the CMS s/w, development of the CMS physics program (study of possibilities to reconstruct physics processes in CMS)
2003 - 2012 - calculations of the low energy positron beam and positronium physics with Geant4.
2004 - 2014 - organization of CMS production in INR (Moscow). Study of the GRID SW.
2004 - 2015 - working as a librarian in the LCG Generator Services subproject (GENSER).
2012 - now - subconvener of the Generator group in CMS
2014 - Joining the NA64 collaboration (P348 in 2014)
2014 - now - Simulation group leader in the NA64 collaboration