Sergei Odintsov

Sergei Dmitriyevich Odintsov (; born 1959) is a Russian astrophysicist active in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory and quantum gravity. He received his master's degree and PhD in Physics at the Tomsk State University. Odintsov is an ICREA Research Professor at the Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (Barcelona) since 2003. He also collaborates as group leader at research projects of the Tomsk State Pedagogical University. He is editor-in-chief of Symmetry, and is a member of the editorial boards of Gravitation and Cosmology, International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, International Journal of Modern Physics D, Journal of Gravity, Universe, Russian Physics Journal and the Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. Odintsov also is an advisory panel member of Classical and Quantum Gravity.

In 2011, Odintsov was included in the list of the top 10 most well-known scientists of Russian origin according to Forbes. In 2014, he was included in the list of The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds: 2014 according to Thomson Reuters.