1. Sergei Kopeikin was born on April 10,1956 and is a USSR-born theoretical physicist and astronomer presently living and working in the United States, where he holds the position of Professor of Physics at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
Sergei Kopeikin specializes in the theoretical and experimental study of gravity and general relativity.
Sergei Kopeikin is an expert in the field of the astronomical reference frames and time metrology.
Sergei Kopeikin has worked out a complete post-Newtonian theory of equations of motion of N extended bodies in scalar-tensor theory of gravity with all mass and spin multipole moments of arbitrary order and derived the Lagrangian of the relativistic N-body problem.
In September 2002, S Kopeikin led a team which conducted a high-precision VLBI experiment to measure the fundamental speed of gravity, thus, confirming the Einstein's prediction on the relativistic nature of gravitational field and its finite speed of propagation.
Sergei Kopeikin is involved in studies concerning the capabilities of the Lunar Laser Ranging technique to measure dynamical features of the General Theory of Relativity in the lunar motion.
Sergei Kopeikin has critically analyzed the claims of other scientists concerning the possibility of LLR to measure the gravitomagnetic interaction.
Recently, S Kopeikin has been actively involved in theoretical studies on relativistic geodesy and applications of atomic clocks for high-precision navigation and in geodetic datum.
Sergei Kopeikin has provided an exact relativistic definition of geoid, and worked out the post-Newtonian concepts of the Maclaurin spheroid and normal gravity formula.
Sergei Kopeikin was born in Kashin, a small town near Moscow in what was then the USSR.
Sergei Kopeikin graduated with excellence from Department of Astrophysics of Moscow State University in 1983 where he studied general relativity under Leonid Grishchuk.
Sergei Kopeikin moved to Germany in 1997 and worked in the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and in Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy until 1999.
Sergei Kopeikin had joined Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Missouri in February 2000 where he got tenure in 2004.
Sergei Kopeikin has been married to Zoia Kopeikina since 1980, they have four daughters, four granddaughters and three grandsons.
Sergei Kopeikin was an editor of two other books on advances in relativistic celestial mechanics.
Sergei Kopeikin is 41, his i10-index is 97, while the total number of citations is 5823.