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Daniel  Alexandrov d_alexandrov@eu.spb.ru European University at St. Petersburg Center for Environmental and Technological History Gagarinskaia ul. 3 191187 St. Petersburg RUSSIA phone: +7 095 812 279 0695

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Daniel Alexandrov is Vice Rector for Research and Professor of Sociology in the European University at St. Petersburg. He wrote his PhD on the history of science (degree recieved from the Russian Academy of Sciences) and holds MS in Biology from St. Petersburg State University. He was teaching St. Petersburg State University in 1981-88, and worked in the Institute for the History of Science in Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1988-1998. While being a Research Fellow in the Academy, he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago (1992) and Georgia Institute of Technology (1994). Since 1996 he taught at the history and sociology departments of the EUSP, where he became full-time professor in 1998. In 2000 he became the director of the Program on the Social Studies of Education in Russia, a grant-making body working under the auspices of the EUSP and funded by the Spencer Foundation. In last years he spent some time as a visiting fellow in Max-Planck Institute of History (Goettingen), Max-Planck Institute of History of Science (Berlin), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris). In Spring 2004 he received Eisenhower Fellowship and spent two months in the US studying university-philanthropy-business nexus. His research is on sociology of science and education, history of science, and environmental history.