Vladimir Kutcherov
Vladimir G. Kutcherov graduated from the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (Moscow) as a petroleum engineer in 1977. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Energy Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), and a Professor at the Department of Physics at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (Moscow). His main research interests deal with the problem of the origin of hydrocarbons and oil and gas deposits accumulation. Prof. Kutcherov and his international collaborators have published a set of papers in PNAS, Nature Geoscience, Review of Geophysics, where the possibility of abiogenic synthesis of complex hydrocarbon systems was convincingly demonstrated.