Givi Maisuradze
Givi Maisuradze is a Georgian geologist, Professor, Dr.Sc. He and his spouse Nina Klopotovskaia (paleontologist) were part of the research team that discovered early hominin skulls and later skeletons dating 1.8 million years old in Dmanisi, Georgia.
He was born on February 11, 1934 in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi. In 1952 he graduated from school # 6 in Tbilisi. Between 1952 and 1957 he attended Tbilisi State University specializing in both; Geography and Geology. In 1957 obtained a title of Engineer Geologist at Tbilisi State University.
- Between 1957 and 1960 Givi Maisuradze worked as Geologist and Hydrologist at the Soviet Union's Geological Military district 15, where he was publishing his research studies on Caucasian region and Middle East.
- Between 1961and 1980 worked at the department of Quaternary Geology at Vakhushti Bagrationi Institute of Geography, where he started as a senior laboratory worker and advanced to the position of the senior scientist.
As part of his research he has traveled to Middle Asia, Europe, Canada and China.
- In 1970 he defended a dissertation (thesis) on the subject of Geomorphology and Paleogeography.
- In February 1980, he was transferred to the Dzhanelidze Institute of Geology, as a senior scientist of regional geology and tectonic department, where he worked until 2007.
- In 2007 he took a semi-retirement while still working part-time at the Institute of Geology and teaching Quaternary Geology at the Tbilisi State University.
130 research works published, 21 out of which at Impaqt Journal.
Awards
1976 - Order of Merit of the Soviet Union's Science Society 1982 - INQUA international congress awarded by B. Sokolov 1983 – Recognition of Georgian Society of Science for the participation in the creation of Georgian Red Book about the nature protection (Tsiteli Tsigni). 2001- Received Order of Merit from the president of Georgia for the discoveries made in Dmanisi region.
Specialization
Young (Quaternary) volcanoes, terrestrial magnetism, neotectonics, archeology, statgraphics of quaternary layers and their regional and world correlations.
Scientific project participation
Between 2002 and 2004, Givi Maisuradze conducted a research on Caucasian Seismic Information Network for Hazard and Risk Assessment. Between 1997 and 2005 worked on Dmanisi sight where archeological research was conducted for several years after the discovery of Homo Erectus in Dmanisi. [1]
References
- ↑ Leo Gabunia, Abesalom Vekua, David Lordkipanidze, Reid Ferring, Antje Justus, Givi Maisuradze, Alexander Mouskhelishvili, Medea Nioradze, Djemal Sologashvili, Carl Swisher III, Merab Tvalchrelidze (2000). "CURRENT RESEARCH ON THE HOMINID SITE OF DMANISI". ERAUL 92. 92 (2000): 13–27.
- www.sciencemag.org
- The anatomical record. Part A, Discoveries in molecular, cellular, and evolutionary biology. 288(11):1146-57.
- Leo Gabunia, Abesalom Vekua, David Lordkipanidze, Carl C. Swisher
III, Reid Ferring, Antje Justus, Medea Nioradze, Merab Tvalchrelidze, Susan C. Antón, Gerhard Bosinski, Olaf Jöris, Marie-A.-de Lumley, Givi Majsuradze, Aleksander Mouskhelishvili, 2000. Earliest Pleistocene Hominid Cranial Remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: Taxonomy, Geological Setting, and Age .Vol.288. no.5468, pp. 1019 – 1025