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BIOGRAPHY OF ALEKSANDR V. SHIRINOV

Aleksandr Shirinov was born on May 3, 1976, in Gagra, Georgia, and grew up in Akhaltsikhe, Georgia and Baku, Azerbaijan. In 1997, he earned a Bachelor's degree in Instrument-Making (with a minor in Biomedical Engineering) from the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (University of Technology) and received the diploma with honours (summa cum laude). Shirinov earned Master degree in Biomedical Engineering, Instrument-Making and received the diploma with honours (summa cum laude) from the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy in 1999. During his study at the University Shirinov earned numerous awards at competitions on Physics, Programming and at student scientific conferences. From 1998 till 2000, he worked at the Open Society Institute - Azerbaijan as an Advisor - Biomedical Engineer, installing and servicing medical equipment and consulting technical staff at hospitals in the Baku city. During this time Shirinov worked by contracts with Biomed and BTS companies and repaired medical equipment at different hospitals in the Baku city. In 2000 Shirinov successfully competed for a PhD fellowship scholarship in Instrument-Making and started his PhD work at the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. 

In 2001 Shirinov started to work at the Institute of Microrobotics and Control Engineering, Oldenburg University, Germany. At the University of Oldenburg he has developed haptic interfaces for the control of microrobots, he performed integration of force micro sensors into end-effectors of microrobots, and realised nanohandling of micro objects and nanotubes in a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). The haptic device and system for the control of microrobots were presented at several International Exhibitions and described in journal articles and conference papers.

From 2004 till 2007 Aleksandr Shirinov worked at the Institute of Construction and Development of Microsystems (KEmikro), Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), where he obtained in 2007 his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with honours (summa cum laude). The topic of his Ph.D. thesis was the Development of Pressure Sensors from Polyvinylidenefluorid. He developed a new kind of micro pressure sensor based on a piezoelectric membrane made of polyvinylidenefluorid polymer.

Since 2007 Aleksandr Shirinov works as a research and development engineer at Pfeiffer Vacuum GmbH and develops vacuum pumps including side channel vacuum pumps. The side channel pumps are also called regenerative and vortex pumps. A pump, which combines a side channel pump and a holweck pump, is capable to work against atmosphere and achieve a final pressure of 10^-6 mbar or 10^-4 Pa. Aleksandr Shirinov is a leading engineer who is responsible for the research and development of side channel pumps and compressors at his company. He improved substantially the performance of side channel pumps and brought them to a new level of power and efficiency.