Education:
1956 - M.S. in Physics from Ural State University
1965 - Ph.D. from Ural State University
1984 - Dr.Sc. in Physics from Ural Dept. of Russian National Academy

Career:
1959 to 1986: Institute of Metal Physics of National Academy of Science, Research Associate, Senior Research Associate, Sverdlovsk, Russia
1986 to present: Head of Ferromagnetic Alloys Laboratory of the Institute of Metal Physics of Ural Division of Russian Academy of Science, Ekaterinburgh, Russia

Field of activity:

• Physics of magnetization reversals
• Nature of crystalline and induced magnetic anisotropies
• Magnetism of rare-earth compounds
• Studies of interconnection of structure and magnetic properties of multi-component inter-metallics of rare-earth - 3d-metals
• Synthesis of new multi-component ferromagnetic alloys based on rare-earth - 3d-metals inter-metallics
• Investigation of nano-composite high-coercive materials prepared by melt spinning and intensive plastic deformation methods

Main publications:

1. A.S. Ermolenko. Magneto-crystalline anisotropy of rare earth inter-metallics. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Mag-12 (1976) 992.
2. A.S. Ermolenko . Exchange interactions and magneto-crystalline anisotropy of rare earth - cobalt compounds with CaCu5-type structure. IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Mag-15 (1979) 1765.
3. Ye.V. Shcherbakova, G.V. Ivanova, A.S. Ermolenko, Ye.V. Belozerov, V.S. Gaviko. Magnetic properties and crystal structure of nouvel highly anisotropic compounds on base of R-Fe-V systems (R = Y, Nd, SM, Gd). J. of Alloys and Compounds, 182 (1992) 199.
4. A.M. Gabay, A.G. Popov, V.S. Gaviko, Ye.V.Belozerov, A.S. Ermolenko. Structure and magnetic properties of melt-spinned and annealed multiphase nano-crystalline Nd9Fe91-xBx ribbons. J. Alloys and Compounds, 245 (1996) 119.
5. A.G. Popov, A.S. Ermolenko, E.V. Belozerov, V.S. Gaviko, T.Z. Puzanova, A.M.Gabay, A.S. Kim. Magnetic hysteresis properties of cast and powdered (Pr,R)-Fe-B-Cu (R = Tb, Dy) alloys. Proceedings of 15-th Intern. Workshop on Rare-Earth Permanent Magnets and Their Application, Dresden, 1998, p.103-110.
6. A.G. Popov, A.S. Ermolenko, V.S. Gaviko, N.N/ Schegoleva, V.V. Stolyarov, D.V. Gunderov. Peculiarities of magnetic hysteresis properties and structure of nanocrystalline Nd9Fe84B7 alloys prepared by melt spinning or intensive plastic deformation. Proceedings of 16-th Intern. Workshop on Rare-Earth Permanent Magnets and Their Application, Sendai, Japan, 2000, p. 621-630.