Mikhail Spokoyny (Russian: Михаил Юрьевич Спокойный; born 7 February 1955, Odessa, Ukraine) is a Russian and American scientist. He has a PhD in Engineering with a specialisation Thermal physics. He is CEO and Managing Director of the Asgardia Independent Research Center.
Mikhail Spokoyny was born on 7 February 1955 in Odessa, Ukraine. In 1977 he graduated the Odessa Technological Institute with specialisation Thermal physics. Later, in 1984, he gained a PhD in Engineering with the same specialisation from the Leningrad Institute of Fine Mechanics and Optics.
After the institute, from 1977 to 1989, Mikhail Spokoyny worked at the Research and Production Enterprise "Kvant," a Soviet research and production institute. Then from 1989 to 1993 he held the position Science Director of the Institute of New Technologies of the Russian Academy of Science. From 1993 to 2001 he held a number of executive positions at various companies in IT industry and military production, among which the RPE "Almaz."
In 2001 he moved to the United States, first as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), later holding various scientific and development positions throughout the state of California. He also worked in the Mechanical Department of the Drexel University as Research Professor and Research Director. He has more than 10 U.S. patents and more than 80 scientific publications.
In 2013 Mikhail Spokoyny was appointed CEO and Managing Director of the Aerospace International Research Center in Vienna, Austria. In July 2018 it was renamed to Asgardia Independent Research Center. The center publishes the space magazine Room.
On 12 October 2016 "the birth of the new space nation Asgardia" was announced in a press conference in Paris, France The project is officially called the "Space Kingdom of Asgardia." Mikhail Spokoyny was the Head of Administration to Asgardia's Head of Nation.
Mikhail Spokoyny emigrated to the United States in 2001 and acquired the U.S. citizensip in 2009. Spelling used prior to the citizenship is Michael Spokoiny. He is bilingual in English and Russian; able to speak and read Ukrainian; able to understand Polish.
His father Yury Efimovich Spokoyny (1929—2009) was a professor of the Odessa Polytechnic Institute and mother Irma Borisovna Spokoyny (Brain-Litwin) (born in 1930) was a teacher of French language in high school.
Mikhail is married to Anna Spokoyny (maiden name is Kim). They have four children:
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