From 1968 to 1997, he was at the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, where he expanded the fusion research program from 1979 and was promoted from deputy director to chief scientist in 1994.
From 1994, he was a senior visiting scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where he became a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in 2012.
[1] Among other things, he dealt with mirror machines (including having proposed the Gas Dynamic Trap (GDT) in Novosibirsk),[2] Tokamak divertors,[3] particle beams with high energy density, the Z-Pinch,[4] solar and space physics,[5][6] laboratory astrophysics, X-ray optics and magnetic levitation.
He was involved in the experimental magnetic levitation system Inductrack,[7] the Snowflake Divertor for tokamaks[8][9][10] and X-ray diagnostics at Linac Coherent Light Source.
He became an Edward Teller Fellow of the LLNL in 2007 and received the Distinguished Career Award from Fusion Power Associates in 2010.