Place of Birth:

Baku city, Azerbaijan Republic

Education: Geological- exploration faculty of Azerbaijan State Oil Academy

Scientific degree: 

Doctor of Geological Mineralogical Sciences

Title: Academician

Membership:

President of the Azerbaijan National Committee of Geologists, Chairman of Caucasian Regional Interdepartmental Stratigraphic Commission, member of the  Engineering Academy of Azerbaijan

Awards:

Medal for Selfless Service - 1970; Badge of Honour Award- 1986; Honored Scientist of Azerbaijan Republic - 1991; State Prize Laureate of Azerbaijan Republic - 1991; Order “Shohrat” (Order of Glory) - 2004; Order “Sharaf” (Order of Honour) – 2008; Order “İstiglal” (Order of Sovereignty ) - 2014

Position:

President of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), Director of Institute of Geology and Geophysics of ANAS

Work experience: Senior research assistant at the Institute of Geology of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences – 1957

PhD degree in geology and mineralogy - 1961

Degree of Doctor of geological-mineralogical sciences - 1969

Deputy Director on Scientific Affairs of Institute of Geology - 1970-1976

Director of Institute of Geology – since 1976

Corresponding member of the ANAS – 1980

Full member of the ANAS – 1989

Member of the Presidium and Academician-Secretary of the Department of Earth Sciences of the ANAS – 1990

Vice-President of ANAS – 2007-2013

President of ANAS - 2013

Author of more than 370 publications. For Merits in Science a new family of belemnoids was named after A. Alizadeh (“Akifibelids”-1984)