{{Short description|Russian politician}} {{Family name hatnote|Viktorovich|Livanov|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Dmitry Livanov | image = Dmitry Livanov, June 2017.jpg | office = Rector of [[Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology]] | term_start = 15 February 2022 | term_end = | predecessor = [[Nikolay Kudryavtsev]] | office1 = Special representative of the president on trade and economic relations with [[Ukraine]] | term_start1 = 19 August 2016 | term_end1 = 5 October 2018 | predecessor1 = [[Mikhail Zurabov]] | successor1 = ''Office disestablished'' | office2 = [[Ministry of Education and Science (Russia)|Minister of Education and Science]] | term_start2 = 21 May 2012 | term_end2 = 19 August 2016 | predecessor2 = [[Andrei Fursenko]] | successor2 = [[Olga Vasilieva (politician)|Olga Vasilieva]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|2|15|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Moscow]], [[Soviet Union]] <small>(now [[Russia]])</small> | death_date = | death_place = | party = | alma_mater = | profession = [[Physicist]] <br /> [[Doctor of Sciences]] in Physical and Mathematical Sciences | signature = | caption = Livanov in 2017 | native_name_lang = ru | native_name = {{nobold|Дмитрий Ливанов}} }} {{Listen|filename = Dmitrij Livanov voice.oga |title= Dmitry Livanov's voice |type= speech |description= recorded June 2013}} '''Dmitry Viktorovich Livanov''' ({{langx|ru|Дми́трий Ви́кторович Лива́нов}}, born February 15, 1967) is a Russian [[Doctor of Sciences|Doctor of Physics]], [[professor]], current [[Rector (academia)|rector]] of the [[Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology]] and former rector of [[Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys]], and the [[Ministry of Education and Science (Russia)|Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation]] from 2012 to 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1611798|title=Decree of the President of the Russian Federation from 21 May 2012 №652 "On the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation"|accessdate=2012-05-24|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017235726/http://graph.document.kremlin.ru/page.aspx?1611798|archivedate=17 October 2013}}</ref>
In 1990, he graduated with honors from the Physical Chemistry Department of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. In 1990-1992, he studied at the postgraduate in same institute, where he defended his [[thesis]] for the degree of Candidate of Physico-Mathematical Sciences on "Heat transfer interacting electrons in superconductors and normal metals". In 1992-2000, he worked in that institute as [[Research fellow]] and senior [[researcher]], Laboratory synthesis, [[associate professor]] at the Department of [[Theoretical Physics]].
In 2004-2005, he became director of the scientific-technical and innovation department of the Ministry of Education and Science. In 2005-2007, he was promoted to Deputy Minister of Education and Science. In 2007, he became rector of the [[National University of Science and Technology MISIS|Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys]] and additional President of the [[Black Sea Universities Network]]. He held this position till 21 May 2012, when he was appointed Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation in [[Dmitry Medvedev's First Cabinet|Dmitry Medvedev's Cabinet]].
In 2013 he signed the reform that incorporated the [[Russian Academy of Medical Sciences]] and the Russian Academy of Agriculture Sciences into the [[Russian Academy of Sciences]] (RAS), subordinating it to the Federal Agency of Scientific Organizations (FASO), a government-controlled entity which realized a takeover of the RAS assets.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Dagmara Moskwa|url=http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-42b8e1bf-148f-4ce6-beec-fac7db24794d/c/moskwa.pdf|title=Russia:An Incessant Battle for Education|language=English, Russian|doi=10.12775/HiP.2018.009|issn=1899-5160|journal=Historia i Polityka|issue=24|year=2018|pages=33–46|oclc=8772658729|via=<!-- [https://paperity.org/p/232272632/russia-an-incessant-battle-for-education Paperity] -->|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720092732/http://cejsh.icm.edu.pl/cejsh/element/bwmeta1.element.desklight-42b8e1bf-148f-4ce6-beec-fac7db24794d/c/moskwa.pdf|archive-date=July 20, 2021|url-status=live|doi-access=free}} (here cited p. 35)</ref>
On 19 August 2016 [[Olga Vasilieva (politician)|Olga Yurievna Vasilieva]] replaced Livanov at the head of the Ministry of Education<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interfax.ru/russia/524447|title=В России сменился министр образования|author=|date=2016-08-19|publisher=[[Interfax]]|accessdate=2016-08-19}}</ref> and he was appointed special representative of the president on trade and economic relations with [[Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://echo.msk.ru/news/1823442-echo.html|title=Дмитрий Ливанов официально назначен спецпредставителем президента по торгово-экономическим связям с Украиной|author=|date=2016-08-20|publisher=[[Echo of Moscow]]|accessdate=2016-08-20}}</ref>, but was removed from that position two years later. <ref>{{cite web|title=Указ о Ливанове Д.В. |url=http://publication.pravo.gov.ru/Document/View/0001201810080008}}</ref>
Livanov was appointed rector of the [[Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology]] in 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Экс-глава Минобрнауки Дмитрий Ливанов назначен врио ректора МФТИ |url=https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/03/10/eks-glava-minobrnauki-dmitrii-livanov-naznachen-vrio-rektora-mfti |publisher=[[Novaya Gazeta]]}}</ref>
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