He served as the president of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan from 2000 to 2005 and again from 2017 onwards.
[1][2] Born on 9 May 1945 in Tashkent, Yoʻldoshev initially worked as a junior researcher at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR after he graduated from Tashkent State University in 1968.
After defending his thesis in 1971, he went on to work as a senior researcher at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics.
That year, he was made president of the Academy of Sciences, but he was removed from the post on 21 November 2005.
Earlier that year on 24 January, he had been appointed a member of the Oliy Majlis by decree of Karimov.