Alexander Panov is a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, currently he is a leading researcher at the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The main works are related to nuclear physics, surface physics, quantum measurement theory, gravity and cosmology, cosmic ray physics, the SETI problem (more than 170 articles in domestic and foreign scientific publications, one monograph). Since 2012, he has been the head of the Scientific and Cultural Center SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) under the Scientific Council for Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (NSA RAS), chairman of the section "Life and Mind in the Universe" of the NSA RAS. He graduated from the Physics Department of the Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov in 1982.