Date and place of birth: October 24, 1973, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Affiliation: Head of Geography and Nature Management Department at the Brest State A.S. Pushkin University.

Academic degree/rank: Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Professor, Doctor of Science in Geology and Mineralogy.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2039-679X

Scopus ID: 57191968270

Education & professional development:

• Graduated cum laude from the Faculty of Natural Science of the Brest State A.S. Pushkin Pedagogical Institute with specialty in geography and biology (1995)
• Postgraduate education in general and regional geology at the Institute of Geological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (1998)
• Doctorate in general and regional geology at the Belorussian Research Geological Exploration Institute (2008)
• Candidate of science degree in geology and mineralogy awarded at the Institute of Geological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus on October 23, 1998. Dissertation theme: Amber in Anthropogenic Deposits in Belarus
• Academic rank of associate professor in geology awarded on June 25, 2003
• Doctor of science degree in geology and mineralogy awarded by the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission of Belarus on October 21, 2009 after defence of dissertation on the theme: Fossil Resins of the Northern Eurasia
• Academic rank of professor in geology awarded by the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission of Belarus on May 8, 2013

Professor Maksim A. Bogdasarov was awarded an academic rank of the Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus after public voting at the General Assembly of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus on November 16, 2017

Research interests (key words): properties and compositions of fossil resins; structure and formation of regional quaternary deposits for prediction of minerals

Research activity:

• Assistant Trainee, Assistant, Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor at the Brest State A.S. Pushkin University (1995 up to date)
• Head of Department of Geography, Brest State A.S. Pushkin University (since 2010)
• Head of Department of Geography and Nature Management, Brest State A.S. Pushkin University (since 2015)
• Lecturer on Geology, Geology and Minerals of Belarus, History of the Earth; Aspects of Geology in Evolution of Biosphere courses for students and candidates for a master’s degree

Academic and professional communities:

• Deputy Chairman of the Brest Division of the Belorussian Geographic Society (since 2014)
• Deputy Chairman of the Council of Experts in Geosciences at the Higher Attestation Commission of Belarus (since 2016)
• Member of the Council of Experts in Ecology, Natural Resources, Resource Saving, Nature Management and Protection in Emergencies at the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus (since 2013)

Expertise:

• Deputy Chairman of the Council of Experts in Geosciences at the Higher Attestation Commission of Belarus (since 2016)
• Member of the Council of Experts in Ecology, Natural Resources, Resource Saving, Nature Management and Protection in Emergencies at the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus (since 2013)
• Head of the Geology and Geography School

R&D activities:

Professor Bogdasarov aims his R&D activities to meet the two challenges of science:

(1) Finding the laws of formation, expansion, properties and compositions of different fossil resins, as well as validation of the prospective prediction of new fossil resin deposits in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic sediments in the Northern Eurasia, including the territory of Belarus (approval and introduction: All-Russian Research Institute of Mineral Raw Materials in Moscow; Institute of Geology at the Komi Science Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Syktyvkar; Science and Production Center for Geology in Minsk)

(2) Creation of an aggregate picture of structure and formation of quaternary deposits in the Brest Region as the framework for prediction of minerals and for efficient management of geological medium (approval and introduction: Committee on Economy at the Executive Committee of the Brest Region; Committee for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection in the Brest Region)

Professor Maksim Bogdasarov headed and / or participated in R&D groups within the framework of the Governmental Research Programs and international research projects, including cooperative investigations with the Institute of Geology of the Komi Science Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Syktyvkar, Russia), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), and the Polish Geological Institute-National Research University (Warsaw, Poland)

Traineeship:

Trainee job at the Institute for Nature Management, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (2012), Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2014), Vilnius University (2017) and at the Pope John Paul II High School (2019).

Awards:

• Special Grant of the President of the Republic of Belarus (1999, 2011);
• Grant of the President of Belarus for the prominent contribution to the social and economic advance of the Republic in the field of science (2012);
• Winner of the Kuprevich Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for young scientists (2005);
• Professor Kondrateni Prize Winner (2013);
• Certificate of Merit of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus (2010);
• Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus (2015);
• Certificate of Honor of the National Academy of Science of Belarus (2015).

Publications:

Maxim Bogdasarov is the author/co-author of 340 scientific and teaching publications, including 8 monographs, some of which are:

• Amber of archeological sites in Belarus (1995);
• Amber in anthropogenic deposits in Belarus (2001);
• Fossil resins of Belarus (2003);
• Fossil resins of the Northern Eurasia (2005);
• Amber and other fossil resins in Eurasia (2011);
• Fossil resins in Eurasia: Geology, mineralogy, genesis (2011);
• Geology and minerogeny of quaternary sediments in the territory of the Podlyass–Brest Depression (2011);
• Topography of the Podlyass–Brest Depression (2013).

Author (co-author) of 7 teaching aids recommended by the Ministry of Education of Belarus, including:

• Geophysics (2014);
• Remote sensing in geology and geography (2015);
• Geology (2016);
• General geology. Laboratory course (2017);
• Paleogeography (2019);
• General geology. Laboratory course for for foreign students (2019).

Author of more than 120 scientific papers. 

The main publications:

The articles: 

• Martirosyan О. V., Bogdasarov M. A. Varieties of cretaceous fossil resins of the Caucasus and features of their molecular structure. Zapiski RMO (Proceedings of the Russian Mineralogical Society). 2022;(1):92–104. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S0869605521060058;
• Marks L., Woronko B., Majecka A., Rylova T., Orłowska A., Hrachanik M., Rychel J., Zbucki, Bahdasarau M., Hradunova A., Nitychoruk J., Nowacki, Pochocka-Szwarc K. Middle Pleistocene deposits at Rechitsa, western Belarus, and their input to MIS 12-6 stratigraphy in central Europe. Quaternary International, 2020;553:34–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2020.07.022;
• Stach P., Martinkute G., Šinkunas P., Natkaniec-Nowak L., Drzewicz P., Naglik B., Bogdasarov M. An attempt to correlate the physical properties of fossil and subfossil resins with their age and geographic location. Journal of Polymer Engineering. 2019;39(8). https://doi.org/10.1515/polyeng-2019-0159;
• Marks L., Karabanov A., Nitychoruk J., Bahdasarau M. et. al. Revised limit of the Saalian ice sheet in central Europe. Quaternary International. 2018;478:59–74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.07.043;
• Bogdasarov M. A. Mineralogy of fossil resins in Northern Eurasia. Geology of Ore Deposits. 2007;49(7):630–637. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1075701507070215;
• Bogdasarov M., Komlev A., Nesterovskij V., Remezova E. Amber formation of Ukraine and Belarus (scientifically-methodical and practical aspects of study). Litasfera. 2017:(1):143–149. (In Russ.);
• Bogdasarov M. Cenozoic fossil resins of northern Eurasia. Litasfera. 2017:(1):68–76. (In Russ.);
• Bogdasarov M. Mesozoic fossil resins of northern Eurasia. Vestnik IG Komi SC UB RAS. 2017;(7):3–11. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.19110/2221-1381-2017-7-3-11;
• Bogdasarov M. A., Кухарик Е. А. Особенности строения и формирования четвертичных отложений западного Полесья в связи с их янтароносностью. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Geography and Geology. 2017;(2):143–151;
• Bogdasarov M. A., Рудько Г. И. Эволюция представлений о происхождении ископаемых смол. Минеральные ресурсы Украины. 2017;(3):12–18.

• Maevskaya A., Sheshko N., Shpendik N., Bogdasarov M. Structural geological mapping of the Cenozoic sediments of the Brest region using GIS technologies. In: 2020 International Conference on Building Energy Conservation, Thermal Safety and Environmental Pollution Control (ICBTE 2020). 2020;212:01010. https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202021201010;
• Kukharik E., Hrachanik M., Bogdasarov M., Matveyev A. Features of technogenic morphogenesis on the territory of south-western Belarus. In: 2020 International Conference on Building Energy Conservation, Thermal Safety and Environmental Pollution Control (ICBTE 2020). 2020;212:01008, https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202021201008;
• Bogdasarov M. A., Кирпичников А. А., Кожанов Ю. Д., Богдасарова Ю. В. Облицовочные горные породы в градостроительстве г. Гродно как объект экскурсионной деятельности. В: Туризм как фактор регионального развития. Материалы VIII Международной научно-практической конференции. Отв. за выпуск Е. В. Курилова, Е. А. Ивлиева. Екатеринбург: Уральский государственный экономический университет; 2018. C. 18–22;
• Bogdasarov M. A., Гречаник Н. Ф., Кожанов Ю. Д., Кухарик Е. А. Структурно-вещественные комплексы раннего Кайнозоя юго-западной части территории Беларуси. В: Береговая зона моря: исследования, управление, перспективы. Сборник материалов Международной молодежной летней школы: научное электронное издание. Под редакцией В. А. Гриценко. 2018. C. 32–38;
• Bogdasarov M., Bogdasarova Yu., Кожанов Ю., Solop I. Роль коллекций минералов, горных пород и окаменелостей в подготовке географов (на примере учебного кабинета геологии БРГУ имени А. С. Пушкина). В: Коллекция в пространстве культуры материалы международной научной конференции. Материалы международной научной конференции. Под редакцией И. А. Поляковой, Т. Ю. Суворовой. Калининград: ГБУК "Калининградский областной музей янтаря"; 2018. C. 331–338;
• Karabanov A., Marks L., Nitychoruk J., Bahdasarau M. et al. New data about the limit of the dniepr stage of the Prypiat ice sheet within the cross-border of Polish-Belarusian region. In: Geology and Mineral Resources of the West of the Eastern European Platform: Problems of Study and Rational Use. Proceedings of the International scientific conference dedicated to the 215th anniversary of the birth of I. Domeiko. Edited by A.K. Karabanov. Minsk: Publishing House of the State Scientific Institution “Institute for Nature Management of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus”; 2017. C. 157–162.
• Карабанов А., Маркс Л., Нитихорук Е., Богдасаров М. и др. О границе днепровской стадии Припятского оледенения в приграничном польско-белорусском регионе. В: Современные проблемы геохимии, геологии и поисков месторождений полезных ископаемых. Материалы Международной научной конференции, посвящённой 110-летию со дня рождения академика Константина Игнатьевича Лукашёва (1907–1987). Минск: Право и экономика; 2017. C. 101 –106.