Photo Gallery

Baku-Mardakan, Azerbaijan

August 2024

At my mom's 90th birthday party.

Mom is sitting in the front row in the center (with bouquets of flowers on both sides)

with her sisters and surrounded by her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and relatives.

Vienna, Austria

April 2024

Enjoying a dinner after the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union

Rome, Italy

30 September 2023

Near Vatican, over the Tiber, during the visit of INGV Rome

Tel Aviv, Israel

1 April 2023

In the old city Jaffa after a symposium in theTel Aviv University

Baku, Azerbaijan

1 September 2022

Lecturing at the Baku State University

Karlsruhe, Germany

4 July 2022

Near the Castle in Karlsruhe (Photo: Joerg Donecker)

Lauterbad, Germany

25 December 2021

Christmas in the Black Forest

Karslruhe, Germany

Lockdown during COVID-19

Gifts from Baku: sweets, fruits, caviar, and dolls :-)

San Francisco, USA

11 December 2019

Receiving the Ambassador Award at the AGU Fall Meeting

(with AGU President Robin E. Bell)

Budapest, Hungary

World Science Forum, 20-23 November 2019

Convening a panel discussion

Upper panel (from left): Elisa Reis, Vice-President, International Science Council (Brazil);

Stephanie Balme, Dean of the Undergraduate College, SciencesPo Paris (France);

Daya Reddy, President, International Science Council (South Africa);

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, President, European Research Council (Belgium);

Alexander Khlunov, Director General, Russian Science Foundation (Russia);

Elena Manaenkova, Deputy Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization (Switzerland);

Atish Dabholkar, Director, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy);

Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Secretary of the Governing Board, International Science Council (Germany)

(photos: courtesy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Beijing, CHINA

15 October 2019

Together with Jinghai LI (President, National Natural Science Foundation of China; left)

and Wan GANG (President, China Association for Science and Technology; Minister of Science

and Technology of China, 2007-2018)

Baku, AZERBAIJAN

28 August 2019

85th birthday of my mother, together with my sister, son, and brother

Paris, FRANCE

100th Anniversary of IUGG at UNESCO, 29 July 2019

Talk "Centennial of the International Cooperation in Earth and Space Sciences"

(photo: UNESCO/C.Alix)

Presentation of the HGSS Special Issue on the IUGG History to H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco

(photo: UNESCO/C.Alix)

Together with Lassina Zerbo (Executive Secretary, Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive

Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization - CTBTO)

(photo: IUGG)

Together with Sierd Cloetingh (President, Academia Europeaea)

(photo: IUGG)

Montreal, CANADA

27th IUGG General Assembly, 8-18 July 2019

Presentation of an Honorary Membership at the Closing Ceremony by IUGG President M. Sideris (right) and Vice President K. Whaler

IUGG Presidents: T. Beer [2007-2011, left] and H. Gupta [2011-2015, right]

IUGG Secretaries General: G. Balmino [1991-1999], J. Jocelyn [1999-2007], and A. Ismail-Zadeh [2007-2019]

At the Opening and Award Ceremonies

Geneva, Switzerland

At the United Nations Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, 15 May 2019

Washington, D.C., USA

Near U.S. Congress, December 2018

Barcelona, SPAIN

Presentation of elected Members of Academia Europaea (2018)

Mexico City, MEXICO

Executives of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (2015-2019)

Together with Carlos Slim attending the IUGG reception at the Colegio Nacional

Margarita Cocktail (tequila, orange liqueur, lime juice)

served with salt on the rim of the glass)

Paris, FRANCE

Elected officers of the International Science Council (2018-2021):

Jinghai Li, Daya Reddy, Renee van Kessel, Elisa Reis, Peter Gluckman,

and Alik Ismail-Zadeh, as the first Secretary of Council

(Photo: Simon Cassanas, July 2018)

Above: My speech at the inaugural General Assembly of the International Science Council

Left: togehter with Walter Munk (oceanographer and geophysicist, 101 y.o.)

Right: together with Ismail Serageldin (Founding Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

(Maison des Oceans, Paris, July 2018)

RUSSIA

Volga River, Plyos, June 2018

Hawaii, USA

Paradise Cove Luau, Kapolei, June 2018

Jordan

Al-Khazneh (The Treasury), Petra, November 2017

Republic of China (Taiwan)

At the ICSU General Assembly, Taipei, October 2017

Azerbaijan

Together with Roald Sagdeev, former Science Advisor to President Michael Gorbachev (right),

his female PhD student and my son David (left). Background: the bas-relief of Lev Landau,

Nobel Prize winner in Physics, who lived in the house), Baku, September 2017

Mexico

UNISDR Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, Cancun, May 2017

With Jaime U. Fucugauchi (left), President of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, and Xyoli P. Compos,

Director of the Seismological Survey of Mexico, El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City, May 2017

France

UNESCO, Paris, February 2017

USA

At poster session of the AGU Fall Meeting with V. Kossobokov (left), L. Jones, and R. Singh, San Francisco, 2016

Czech Republic

At the Opening Ceremony Reception with IUGG President Harsh Gupta (right), LOC Chair Vladimir Cermak (left),

After the GeoRisk Commission meeting with colleagues and friends, 26th IUGG General Assembly, Prague, 2015

New Zealand

I introduced Andrew Mackintosh (IACS SG, left) to RH John Key (New Zealand Prime Minister,

in the middle) and Yuan-Tseh Lee (ICSU President, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, right),

31st ICSU General Assembly, Auckland, 2014

Russia

Together with M. Lomonosov, Arkhangelsk, 2014

Mexico

Cancun, 2013

Turkey

With family, Antalya, 2012

Romania

With Jean-Louis Le Mouel of IPG Paris at a dinner, Bacau, 2012

Saudi Arabia

With Dr. Al Bassam of King Saud University, El Riyadh, 2012

Germany

A joint party on the occasion of Sonya's and my birthdays, with relatives and friends, Baden-Baden, 2011

Italy

My 50th birthday, with colleagues, Rome, 2011

Australia

After the ENHANS symposium with speakers, 25th IUGG General Assembly, Melbourne, 2011

Austria

CTBTO Science & Technology Conference, Vienna, 2011

South Africa

ENHANS field trip to the Tswaing impact crater, Pretoria, 2011

At the ENHANS dinner, Pretoria, 2011

China

The Great Wall of China, with Sonya and David, 2010

Egypt

Pyramid of Khafre and the Sphinx, near Cairo, 2010

Italy

EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF), Torino, 2010

South Africa

Cape of Good Hope, 2009

Canada

Receiving the AGU International Award at the American Geophysical Union and

Canadian Geophysical Union Joint Meeting, Toronto, May 2009 (with AGU President Timothy Grove)

Niagara Falls, near Toronto, May 2009

Norway

Near Nobel Peace Centre, Olso, 2008

Mozambique

At the ICSU General Assembly with Tom Beer (IUGG President, left) and Harsh Gupta (IUGG Vice President, right), Maputo, 2008

Ukraine

Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, Kiev, 2008

France

Lido, Champs-Elysees, Paris, 2007

Thailand

With a baby elephant, Bangkok, 2006

Pakistan

Mosque in Islamabad, 2006

Germany

BMW motorcycle, ESOF, Munich, 2006

Japan

Kyoto, 2007

Tokyo, 2005 (with S. Honda)

Fuji Mountain, 2005

Sapporo, 2003

India

With colleagues at the IUGG GeoRisk Commission conference, Hyderabad, 2004

Sweden

With my PhD student Dmitry Krupsky at the Euroscience Open Forum, Stockholm, 2004

Italy, ICTP Workshop in Trieste, 2003

Lecturing at the workshop

Together with Vladimir I. Keilis-Borok, my teacher and adviser

With seimologists Keiiti Aki (Japan-USA) and Giuliano Panza (Italy)

United States of America

I organized a Session on Computational Geodynamics at MIT, Cambridge, 2005

MIT, Cambridge, 2003

Boston, USA, 2003

Switzerland

German-Swiss workshop on Numerical Modeling in Geodynamics, ETH, Zurich, 2002

We are in Germany / Wir sind in Deutschland

Happy family, October, 2002

Reception in the official residence of the Federal President of Germany, Berlin, June 15, 2001

Sonya Salman (left) and Mrs. Rau (right), spouse of the Federal President of Germany

Berlin, June 15, 2001

Koeln Cathedral, August 20, 2001

Sonya Salman and Dr. M. Osten, Secretary General of the AvH Foundation, play SCHUBERT, Bonn, August 21, 2001

Reichstag in Berlin, August 22, 2001

We are in Alps

French Alps / Francais Alpes, June, 2001

German Alps / Deutsche Alpen, August, 2001

Beautiful EUROPE

Trinity College, University of Cambridge, England, May, 2000

London, England, July, 2000

Uppsala University, Sweden, October, 1998

Venice, Italy, September, 1995

USSR/Russia - End of the 20th Century

International Institute of Earthuqake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics,

Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, January 2000

Academician Vitaly Ginzburg (a theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner in Physics) presented me

a book about Andrei Sakharov "To Alik Ismail-Zadeh with appreciation from one of 72 co-authors of the book",

after my talk at the Landau-Ginzburg Moscow Seminar on Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia, 1997

Academician Andrei Sakharov (a nuclear physicist and Nobel Peace Prize winner) and

PhD student Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Sankt Petersburg, USSR, October 1988