Akif Alizadeh (Azerbaijani: Akif Ağamehdi oğlu Əlizadə) – is an Azerbaijani geologist, an honored scientist, state prize laureate, former president of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (2013), chairman of the board of Trustees of the Knowledge Fund under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, and a member of the Baku International Multiculturalism Center Board of Trustees.

In 1957, he began working at the Institute of Geology at the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS).

[1] Akif Alizadeh was a highly qualified young professional in the USSR and the youngest deputy director of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

He understood the importance of the application of traditional paleontology and stratigraphy using physical and chemical methods, and carried out his first investigation with the use of isotope geochemistry in the 1970s.

Akif Alizadeh was awarded the State Prize of the Republic of Azerbaijan for his work on the Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous Sediments in 1991.