S. M. Semenov was born in Moscow on July 21, 1948. In 1970 he graduated from the Mechanic and Mathematical Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In the same year he entered the postgraduate course at this faculty and graduated from it in 1973 having defended the dissertation for the degree of PhD (Physics and Mathematics). Since 1974 he has worked in Moscow and has been occupied with the studies in the area of Earth sciences in the Institute of Applied Geophysics, in the Laboratory for Environmental and Climate Monitoring, and in the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology of Roshydromet and Russian Academy of Sciences. During his career, he held the positions of a junior scientific officer (from 1974), senior scientific officer (from 1976), head of division (from 1985), deputy director of the institute in science (from 1997), and director (from 2011) of the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology of Roshydromet and Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1985 he became the Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics). He was a research supervisor of 6 applicants who successfully defended their PhD dissertations. He was appointed professor in 1997 and given the title of “Honored Science Worker of the Russian Federation” in 2008. He worked in some foreign universities as a guest researcher: in Germany (1991), Sweden (1991), and the USA (1993 and 1995). Since 1988 he was a leading author and since 2003, a coordinating leading author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Currently, he is a member of the IPCC Bureau, the vice-chairman of the IPCC Working Group-II. He published 192 scientific papers including five monographs.

Since 2014 he has been a member of the editorial board of Russian Meteorology and Hydrology journal. Since 2015 he has been a member of the editorial board of Problems of Environmental Monitoring and Modeling of Ecosystems journal and the editor-in-chief of Fundamental and Applied Climatology journal. He is a member of the Moscow Mathematical Society, the Scientific Council of Russian Academy of Sciences in Earth climate theory, and the National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He was awarded the Roshydromet prizes for the following researches: the Academician E. K. Fedorov Prize for the monograph “Tropospheric Ozone and Growth of Plants in Europe” in 2000 and the A. I. Voeikov Prize for the preparation of the monograph “Methods for Assessment of Climate Change Consequences for Physical and Biological Systems” in 2014.

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