I was born in Leningrad (USSR) which is currently known as Saint-Petersburg (Russia). I became an amateur-astronomer in 1973. In 1978 I entered the Leningrad State Univeristy (Astronomy department of the mathematics and mechanics faculty, now the Saint-Petersburg University) and graduated from it in 1983. I always was interested in observational astrophysics, and since my third year at the University I chose to specialize in this branch of astronomy.Anatoly Miroshnichenko (biographic information)
During my student years I already spent a lot of time doing astrophysical observations at the University station at the Buyrakan Astrophysical Observatory in Armenia. My diploma thesis was devoted to a study of opportunities to observe galactic supernovae, which have not been observed since Kepler's time (1604). In 1982 - 1999 I worked at the Laboratory of Stellar Physics of the Central Astronomical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences at Pulkovo.
My research interests are focused at early-type stars surrounded by circumstellar envelopes (Herbig Ae/Be stars, B[e] stars, Novae). During my work at Pulkovo, I did observations at three observatories of the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute (Almaty, Kazakhstan) with 1-meter telescopes and a two-channel photometer-polarimeter of the Pulkovo Observatory in a spectral range between 0.3 and 2.5 microns. In total I participated to nearly 80 observational runs. Since 1989 I have been doing observations at the 6-meter Russian telescope of the Special Astrophysical Observatory (North Caucasus, Russia). More than 100 spectra of different stars with circumstellar envelopes have been obtained during nearly 20 observational runs between 1989 and 2002.
In May 1997 I have been invited to work with Prof. Karen Bjorkman at the Ritter Observatory of the University of Toledo (Ohio, USA) as a post-doctoral research associate. This period ended in June 1998, and I returned back to Pulkovo (Russia). Since May 1999 I am in Toledo again. I am still interested in emission-line early-type stars but added calssical Be stars to my field of studies.
On 2003 January 13, my son Alexander
was born in Toledo, OH!
In the summer of 2005 I'll be moving to the place of my new job as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
I am at the University of Toledo (November 2001)Some photos of me and my family
Last updated 2005 May 26
