{{family name hatnote|Vyacheslavovich|Belavkin|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Roman Belavkin | image = | image_size = | landscape = | alt = | caption = | native_name = {{lang|ru|Роман Вячеславович Белавкин}} | native_name_lang = ru | birth_name = Roman Vyacheslavovich Belavkin | alias = Solar X, SolarX, Outremer | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|1|9|df=y}} | birth_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | origin = | death_date = | death_place = | genre = {{flatlist| * Intelligent dance music * Techno * Ambient techno * Experimental electronica }} | occupation = {{flatlist| * Musician * Computer scientist * Wushu master }} | instrument = {{flatlist| * Synthesizer * Computer }} | years_active = 1994–present | label = {{flatlist| * Defective Records * Art-Tek Records * Worm Interface Records * Hymen Records * Galaxiid }} | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|solarx.net}} }}
'''Roman Vyacheslavovich Belavkin''' ({{lang-ru|Рома́н Вячесла́вович Бела́вкин}}; born 9 January 1971) is a Russian-British electronic musician, computer scientist, and wushu master. He is the son of mathematician Viacheslav Belavkin.
As a musician, he is known under the pseudonym '''Solar X''' (also: ''SolarX''). He is considered one of the pioneers of the Russian intelligent dance music (IDM) scene of the 1990s.<ref name="hse">{{cite web |url=https://design.hse.ru/news/2988 |title=Гид по российской электронике |trans-title=Guide to Russian electronica |author=Nick Zavriev |publisher=HSE Art and Design School |date=2023-08-18 |access-date=2025-12-29 |language=ru}}</ref><ref name="vatnikstan">{{cite web |url=https://vatnikstan.ru/culture/muz-ekspansia-1990e/ |title=Самый лучший день для побега на Запад. Экспансия русской музыки в 1990-е |trans-title=The best day to escape to the West: Russian music expansion in the 1990s |author=Pyotr Poleshchuk |publisher=Vatnikstan |date=2021-07-08 |access-date=2025-12-29 |language=ru}}</ref><ref name="djmag-remake">{{cite web|title=Nina Kraviz's GALAXIID label to reissue rare 1997 album from Russian producer SolarX|url=https://djmag.com/news/nina-kravizs-galaxiid-label-reissue-rare-1997-album-russian-producer-solarx|website=DJ Mag|date=2018-12-13|access-date=2026-01-19}}</ref> He founded the label Art-Tek Records, the first Russian label specializing in IDM.<ref name="hse" /><ref name="planetronika">{{cite book |author=Nick Zavriev |title=Планетроника. Популярная история электронной музыки |trans-title=Planetronica: Popular history of electronic music |year=2024 |publisher=Litres |isbn=978-5-04-204040-5 |language=ru}}</ref>
He was European wushu champion (1992) and holds the title of International Master of Sport.<ref name="mgfu">{{cite web |url=https://wushu.moscow/o-nas/ |title=О нас |trans-title=About us |publisher=Moscow City Wushu Federation |access-date=2025-12-31 |language=ru}}</ref><ref name="wushu">{{cite web |url=https://wushu-russ.ru/article/18 |title=История Федерации ушу России |trans-title=History of the Russian Wushu Federation |publisher=Russian Wushu Federation |access-date=2025-12-29 |language=ru}}</ref>
Since the mid-2000s, he has lived in the United Kingdom, where he works as an associate professor of computer science and artificial intelligence at Middlesex University.<ref name="mdx">{{cite web |url=https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/dr-roman-belavkin/ |title=Dr Roman Belavkin |publisher=Middlesex University |access-date=2025-12-29}}</ref><ref name="meduza">{{cite web |url=https://meduza.io/shapito/2021/08/30/elektronschik-solar-x-on-zhe-professor-londonskogo-universiteta-roman-belavkin-zapisal-v-podderzhku-meduzy-trek-agenty-leta |title=Электронщик Solar X (он же профессор лондонского университета Роман Белавкин) записал в поддержку «Медузы» трек «Агенты лета» |trans-title=Electronic musician Solar X (also a professor at a London university, Roman Belavkin) recorded the track "Summer Agents" in support of Meduza |publisher=Meduza |date=2021-08-30 |access-date=2025-12-29 |language=ru}}</ref>
==Early life==
Belavkin was born in Moscow into a family of mathematicians.<ref name="clot">{{cite web |author=Jacobo García |title=SOLAR X, from electro incursions to AI research |url=https://clotmag.com/interviews/solar-x-from-electro-incursions-to-ai-research |website=CLOT Magazine |date=2019-12-12 |access-date=2025-12-29}}</ref> His father was Viacheslav Belavkin (1946–2012), later a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Nottingham and one of the pioneers in quantum probability research.<ref name="stratonovich">{{cite book |editor1=Roman Belavkin |editor2=Panos Pardalos |editor3=Jose Principe |chapter=Editors' Preface |title=Theory of Information |publisher=Springer |year=2020 |isbn=978-3-030-22833-0 |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-22833-0}}</ref> As a child, he lived in a small Moscow apartment where his father's study also served as his bedroom; during the 1980s, he witnessed his father's work on quantum information theory.<ref name="stratonovich" />
His father brought him a synthesizer from a business trip, which he used to make his first musical sketches.<ref name="colta">{{cite web |url=https://www.colta.ru/articles/music_modern/16656-solar-x-menya-nazyvali-russkim-aphex-twin-bez-tanka |title=Solar X: «Меня называли "русским Aphex Twin без танка"» |trans-title=Solar X: "They called me 'the Russian Aphex Twin without a tank'" |author=Denis Boyarinov |publisher=Colta.ru |date=2017-11-23 |access-date=2025-12-29 |language=ru}}</ref>
==Career==
===Sports===
From the late 1980s, Belavkin seriously pursued wushu, training under Gleb Muzrukov, the founder of the USSR Wushu Federation.<ref name="wushu" /> He became one of the leading athletes on the USSR and Russian wushu teams.<ref name="colta" /><ref name="vatnikstan" />
In 1989, Belavkin became USSR wushu champion at the country's first official championship in Almaty.<ref name="wushu" /> In 1990, he won a gold medal in changquan at the first international wushu tournament in Moscow.<ref name="wushu" /> In July of that year, he competed as part of the USSR team at an international tournament in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), placing 6th among representatives from 42 countries.<ref name="wushu" /> In 1991, he won the USSR Cup as part of the Moscow team.<ref name="wushu" />
At the 1992 European Wushu Championships in London, he won a gold medal in jianshu (straight sword).<ref name="wushu" />
That same year, he was involved in a car accident that left him immobile for two years and ended his sports career.<ref name="ra_review">{{cite web |url=https://ra.co/reviews/23511 |title=Solar X — X-Rated |author=Carlos Hawthorn |publisher=Resident Advisor |date=2019-03-08 |access-date=2025-12-29}}</ref><ref name="hse" /><ref name="planetronika" />
===Music career===
====1990s====
During his rehabilitation period, Belavkin began seriously pursuing electronic music, using a computer and Soviet analog synthesizers to create compositions<ref name="ra_review" /><ref name="hse" />—including Polivoks, Ritm-2, Aelita, and others, which were more accessible than European or Japanese alternatives and had a distinctive sound.<ref name="unearthing">{{cite web |url=https://unearthingthemusic.eu/posts/russian-electronic-music-people-and-instruments/ |title=Russian Electronic Music: People and Instruments |author=Alexei Borissov |publisher=Unearthing the Music |access-date=2025-12-29}}</ref>
In 1988, Belavkin enrolled in the Faculty of Physics at Moscow State University.<ref name="orcid">{{cite web|title=ORCID|url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2356-1447|website=orcid.org|access-date=2026-01-21}}</ref> His university studies gave him access to the internet, which in the mid-1990s was only available in academic settings.<ref name="synthposium">{{cite web |url=https://www.colta.ru/articles/music_modern/18904-chto-slushat-na-synthposium-5 |title=Что слушать на Synthposium 5 |trans-title=What to listen to at Synthposium 5 |author=Nick Zavriev |publisher=Colta.ru |date=2018-08-23 |access-date=2025-12-31 |language=ru}}</ref> In 1994, he graduated from Moscow State University,<ref name="mdx" /> took the pseudonym Solar X, and began performing—playing at the Pilot club and other Moscow venues<ref name="colta" />—and recorded his debut album ''Outre X Mer'' on cassette.<ref name="ra_review" /> Through the "Analog Heaven" mailing list devoted to analog synthesizers, Belavkin contacted Dan Nigrin, co-founder of the American label Defective Records.<ref name="planetronika" /> In 1995, the label released an EP of the same name based on the cassette material.<ref name="ra_review" /><ref name="hse" /> The release received positive reviews in the Western press: German magazine ''Frontpage'' named it "record of the week".<ref name="planetronika" /> However, according to music critic Denis Boyarinov, at that time in Russia, Belavkin "was known perhaps only within Moscow and among devoted readers of ''Ptuch'' magazine," while abroad significantly more was written about his music.<ref name="itsmycity">{{cite web |url=https://itsmycity.ru/2017-11-24/denis-boyarinov-o-russkoy-elektronike-devyanostyh-sovremennyh-muzykantah-i-smenyaemosti-pokoleniy |title=Денис Бояринов о русской электронике девяностых, современных музыкантах и сменяемости поколений |trans-title=Denis Boyarinov on Russian electronica of the nineties, contemporary musicians and generational change |author=Dmitry Khanchin |publisher=It's My City |date=2017-11-24 |access-date=2026-01-20 |language=ru}}</ref>
In 1997, Belavkin founded his own label, Art-Tek Records. It became the first label in Russia to specialize specifically in IDM.<ref name="hse" /><ref name="planetronika" /> The label's name was a reference to the Soviet pioneer camp Artek.<ref name="debug1">{{cite journal |author=Manuela Krause |title=Es ist Zeit mein Freund, es ist Zeit... Elektronisches aus Russland |trans-title=It's time my friend, it's time... Electronic music from Russia |journal=De:Bug |issue=46 |date=April 2001 |page=13 |url=https://archive.org/details/debug46/page/n11/mode/2up |language=de}}</ref> Following the release of the album ''X-Rated'', publications appeared in ''The Wire'', ''De:Bug'', and other magazines.<ref name="debug1" /> That same year, Solar X met Richard James (Aphex Twin); after moving to London, they became neighbors.<ref name="colta" />
The Art-Tek label became an important platform for the Russian IDM scene, releasing recordings by musicians from various cities: Novel 23, J-Tunes, DJ Compass Vrubel, Lazyfish, Alexandroid, and the St. Petersburg duo EU), which subsequently signed to the British label Pause_2 and toured in Europe.<ref name="planetronika" /><ref name="hse" /> In 1999, the label released the compilation ''Artefacts'' featuring a selection of Russian IDM.<ref name="discogs">{{cite web |title=Art-Tek Discography |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/200-Art-Tek |website=Discogs |access-date=2025-12-29}}</ref>
In 1998, he composed the music for the film ''The Monk'', directed by his former wushu teacher Gleb Muzrukov.<ref name="mubi">{{cite web|title=The Monk (1998)|url=https://mubi.com/de/ge/films/the-monk-1998|access-date=2026-01-18|language=de}}</ref><ref name="km">{{cite web|title=Монах. Энциклопедия KM.RU |trans-title=The Monk. KM.RU Encyclopedia |url=https://www.km.ru/kino/encyclopedia/monakh|website=www.km.ru|access-date=2026-01-18|language=ru}}</ref>
In 1999, his third album, ''Little Pretty Automatic'', was released on the British label Worm Interface Records.<ref name="discogs" /> One of the singles from this album was a cover of the song "Koroleva" ({{lang|ru|Королева}}, lit. "Queen") by Alla Pugacheva. Music critic Artemy Troitsky provided vocals for the track.<ref name="mk-2020">{{cite web|title=Артемий Троицкий: "Безнадежность в сегодняшней России превосходит советскую"|trans-title=Artemy Troitsky: "Hopelessness in today's Russia exceeds the Soviet one"|url=https://www.mk.ru/culture/2020/06/15/artemiy-troickiy-beznadezhnost-v-segodnyashey-rossii-prevoskhodit-sovetskuyu.html|website=mk.ru|date=2020-06-15|access-date=2026-01-30|language=ru}}</ref> In 2001, the EP ''Chanel N° 303'' came out on the German label Hymen Records. Tracks "Dasha 1, 2, 3, 4..." and "Xiao Jie" from this release were played on John Peel's show on BBC.<ref name="antzen-dinamo">{{cite web |url=https://ant-zen.bandcamp.com/album/dinamo |title=Dinamo by Solar X |publisher=Ant-Zen |access-date=2026-01-18}}</ref> In 2006, the EP ''Masters of Meanders'' was released as part of the box set ''Travel Sickness'' on the same label.<ref name="zvuki2025">{{cite web |url=https://www.zvuki.ru/R/P/85631/ |title=Проверка пульса: лучшее в 2025. Альбомы, места 1-50 |trans-title=Pulse check: best of 2025. Albums, places 1-50 |author=Nick Zavriev |publisher=Zvuki.ru |date=2025 |access-date=2025-12-31 |language=ru}}</ref>
From the early 2000s, Belavkin largely stopped releasing new music for an extended period, focusing on his scientific work.<ref name="colta" />
====Return to music====
In November 2017, he performed at the "Island of the 90s" festival at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg alongside video artist Vadim Epstein; this was his first performance in that city.<ref name="itsmycity" />
In 2019, techno musician Nina Kraviz reissued the album ''X-Rated'' on her label Galaxiid (a sub-label of трип), releasing it on vinyl for the first time.<ref name="ra_news">{{cite web |url=https://ra.co/news/42956 |title=Nina Kraviz's GALAXIID label to reissue rare 1997 album from Russian artist SolarX |publisher=Resident Advisor |date=2018-12-13 |access-date=2025-12-29}}</ref><ref name="djmag-remake"/><ref name="mixmag_news">{{cite web |url=https://mixmag.net/read/nina-kraviz-galaxiid-1997-album-solar-x-news |title=Nina Kraviz's GALAXIID imprint to reissue rare 1997 album from Solar X |publisher=Mixmag |date=2018-12-17 |access-date=2025-12-29}}</ref> In a ''Resident Advisor'' review, the album was called "an exceptional piece of Russian IDM from 1997".<ref name="ra_review" /> In 2024, a reissue of the debut album ''Outre X Mer'' was released on the same label.<ref name="bandcamp">{{cite web |url=https://thesolarx.bandcamp.com/album/outre-x-mer |title=Outre X Mer |publisher=Bandcamp |date=2024-07-19 |access-date=2025-12-31}}</ref>
In August 2021, he recorded the track "Summer Agents" ({{lang|ru|Агенты лета}}) for a musical marathon in support of the publication ''Meduza'', which had been designated as a "foreign agent" in Russia.<ref name="meduza"/>
In 2025, Solar X released his first studio album in 26 years—''Divergent Sequences'' on the Art-Tek Records label.<ref name="zvuki2025" /> The album includes 18 tracks with a total duration of over 75 minutes; the title refers to the mathematical concept of a divergent sequence.<ref name="zvuki2025" /> Theremin player Lydia Kavina participated in the recording.<ref name="zvuki2025" />
===Academic career===
After graduating from the Faculty of Physics at Moscow State University in 1994, Belavkin became interested in artificial intelligence and received a scholarship to study for a PhD at the University of Nottingham, where his father worked as a professor.<ref name="stratonovich" /> He completed his PhD in computer science.<ref name="mdx" />
In 2002, he joined Middlesex University in London, where he holds the position of associate professor in computer science.<ref name="mdx" /> In 2010, he became the principal investigator of the EPSRC project "SANDPIT: Evolution as an Information Dynamic System" with participation from the universities of Manchester, Keele, and Warwick.<ref name="epsrc">{{cite web |url=https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FH031936%2F1 |title=SANDPIT: Evolution as an Information Dynamic System |publisher=UKRI Gateway to Research |access-date=2026-01-18}}</ref> The project focused on applying information theory to biological evolution. Among the results was the discovery that the bacterium ''Escherichia coli'' regulates mutation rates depending on population density through a quorum sensing mechanism. Experimental results on mutation regulation in ''E. coli'' were published in an article in the journal ''Nature Communications'' (2014).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Krašovec |first1=R. |last2=Belavkin |first2=R.V. |last3=Aston |first3=J.A.D. |last4=Channon |first4=A. |last5=Aston |first5=E. |last6=Rash |first6=B.M. |last7=Kadirvel |first7=M. |last8=Forbes |first8=S. |last9=Knight |first9=C.G. |title=Mutation rate plasticity in rifampicin resistance depends on ''Escherichia coli'' cell–cell interactions |journal=Nature Communications |volume=5 |article-number=3742 |year=2014 |doi=10.1038/ncomms4742 |pmid=24776982 |pmc=4007418 }}</ref>
His research interests include the theory of value of information, geometric analysis of optimal and learning systems, quantum informatics, optimal control of evolutionary algorithms, and cognitive modeling.<ref name="mdx" /> According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited more than 800 times.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=EYJhJ1oAAAAJ&hl=en |title=Roman Belavkin — Google Scholar |access-date=2025-12-29}}</ref>
In 2020, he served as one of the editors and translators of the English edition of the classic monograph by Ruslan Stratonovich ''Theory of Information'', published by Springer.<ref name="stratonovich" /> Stratonovich was his father's doctoral supervisor.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=94621 |title=Viacheslav Belavkin |publisher=Mathematics Genealogy Project |access-date=2026-01-18}}</ref>
He is a member of the editorial board of the journal ''Optimization Letters'' published by Springer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://link.springer.com/journal/11590/editorial-board |title=Optimization Letters journal. Editorial board |publisher=Springer |access-date=2026-01-20}}</ref> and the book series ''Springer Optimization and Its Applications''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://link.springer.com/series/7393/editors |title=Springer Optimization and Its Applications book series. Editorial board |publisher=Springer |access-date=2026-01-20}}</ref>
====Lectures====
In 2015, Belavkin gave lectures at the International Summer School on Operations Research at the Higher School of Economics in Nizhny Novgorod.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nnov.hse.ru/latna/conferences/school2015/ |title=Международная летняя школа по исследованию операций и приложениям |trans-title=International Summer School on Operations Research and Applications |publisher=HSE |date=2015 |access-date=2026-01-19 |language=ru}}</ref> In March 2017, he presented at the All-Moscow seminar "Mathematical Methods of Decision Analysis in Economics, Finance and Politics" at HSE with the talk "Utility, Risk and Information".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.hse.ru/en/DeCAn/news/205301365.html |title=A lecture by Roman V. Belavkin (Middlesex University, London, UK) was hold |publisher=HSE |date=2017-03-22 |access-date=2026-01-19}}</ref>
In 2018 and 2021, he was an invited lecturer at the Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning (ACDL) in Siena (Italy), where he spoke alongside Yoshua Bengio, Peter Norvig, Daniela Rus, Alex Pentland, Panos Pardalos, and other artificial intelligence researchers.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://acdl2021.icas.cc/program/ |title=Full Program — ACDL 2021 |access-date=2026-01-19}}</ref>
==Critical reception==
===Musical style===
Solar X's music belongs to the genres of IDM, techno, and experimental electronica.<ref name="ra_review" /> Critics noted the influence of Aphex Twin, especially in the softer compositions of the album ''X-Rated'', but emphasized that "these are not copies"—Belavkin's music is "warmer and cozier," resembling "a candlelit party rather than a dawn rave in a field".<ref name="ra_review" />
German magazine ''Frontpage'' in its review of the debut EP ''Outre X Mer'' (1996), released on the American label Defective Records, called the release a masterpiece and the label's best record, compared the sound to ''Analogue Bubblebath'' (an early work by Aphex Twin), and also noted industrial elements and the influence of the sonic environment of the Moscow Metro; the release received the highest rating from the magazine's reviewers.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Solar X — Outre X Mer EP |journal=Frontpage |date=April 1996 |page=138 |url=https://archive.org/details/rz_Frontpage_1996-04/page/n81/mode/2up |language=de}}</ref>
British critic Rob Young in his review for ''The Wire'' magazine of the album ''X-Rated'' (1997) called it "intriguing," compared it to early Autechre, and noted that the sound goes beyond the typical palette of "intelligent techno of blips and sine waves".<ref>{{cite magazine |author=Rob Young |title=In Brief: Electronica |magazine=The Wire |date=April 1997 |page=70 |url=https://archive.org/details/the-wire-magazine-1997-04-cbz/page/n67/mode/2up}}</ref>
German magazine ''De:Bug'' in 2001 devoted a special section to the Russian electronic scene, in which Belavkin was called "the founding father of new electronic music in Russia" and "the Russian Aphex Twin without a tank"; it was noted that he "was one of the first to start making his own devices from old Soviet synthesizers and computers".<ref name="debug1"/><ref>{{cite journal |author=T. Herrmann |title=DSP-Boards statt Raketen: Solar X |trans-title=DSP boards instead of rockets: Solar X |journal=De:Bug |issue=46 |date=April 2001 |page=14 |url=https://archive.org/details/debug46/page/n13/mode/2up |language=de}}</ref>
===Influence===
Belavkin is considered one of the pioneers of Russian IDM.<ref name="hse" /><ref name="debug1" /> He had a notable influence on the electronic music scene of Saint Petersburg and Moscow in the late 1990s and contributed to the development of experimental musicians of that time, such as Novel23, Ambidextrous, Fizzarum, Елочные Игрушки, and others who were released on his label Art-Tek Records.<ref name="planetronika" /><ref name="djru">{{cite web |url=https://dj.ru/news/46053/russkij-genij |title=Русский гений |trans-title=Russian genius |publisher=DJ.ru |date=2005-01-08 |access-date=2026-01-20 |language=ru}}</ref> In 2002, the label received the "Golden Gargoyle" award from Moscow's 16 Tons club in the "Independent Record Company" category; at the same ceremony, the group Елочные Игрушки, released on the label, won in the "Intelligent Dance Music" category.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.intermedia.ru/news/145184 |title=Петкуна назвали горгульей |trans-title=Petkun called a gargoyle |author=Natalia Sukhanova |publisher=InterMedia |date=2002-11-03 |access-date=2026-01-20 |language=ru}}</ref>
===Rankings===
The track "Shoot My Heart" from the album ''Little Pretty Automatic'' was included in the list of the 100 greatest IDM tracks of all time according to ''Fact'' magazine, taking 27th place.<ref name="fact100">{{cite web |url=https://www.factmag.com/2014/09/22/the-100-greatest-idm-tracks-100-51/ |title=The 100 greatest IDM tracks |publisher=Fact Magazine |date=2014-09-22 |access-date=2026-01-18}}</ref>
Music critic Nick Zavriev placed the album ''Divergent Sequences'' (2025) in first place in his ranking of the best electronic albums of 2025, calling it "the most powerful comeback of the first Russian IDM artist".<ref name="zvuki2025" /> The album itself was characterized by Zavriev as a return to "classic Solar X from the turn of the nineties-noughties": ragged electro rhythms, rapid percussion, melodies with a special sense of humor, and generously processed vocal samples.<ref name="zvuki2025" />
==Discography==
===Studio albums=== * 1994: ''Outre X Mer'' (cassette, self-released; reissue: Galaxiid, 2024) * 1997: ''X-Rated'' (Art-Tek Records; reissue: Galaxiid, 2019) * 1999: ''Little Pretty Automatic'' (Worm Interface Records) * 2025: ''Divergent Sequences'' (Art-Tek Records)
===EPs and singles=== * 1995: ''Outre X Mer'' EP (Defective Records) * 1997: ''Kalashnikoff Bullet Bath'' EP (Defective Records) * 2001: ''Chanel N° 303'' (Hymen Records) * 2006: ''Masters of Meanders'' (Hymen Records, as part of the box set ''Travel Sickness'')
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/dr-roman-belavkin/ Profile at Middlesex University] * [https://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/rvb/ Personal academic page] * {{Official website|http://solarx.net/}}
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