"Aleksei Nelaev is a Master’s degree student at the Dr. Moses Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences at the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences of the University of Haifa. His supervisors are Prof. Uri Schattner and Prof. Michael Lazar.

In his research, Aleksei conducted geomorphological analyses of the Eratosthenes Seamount located in the Eastern Mediterranean. This seamount is a natural laboratory for unraveling the tension of a subducting plate. No research on the Eratosthenes Seamount geomorphology has been conducted in such detail as his, hence, its results will serve as a basis for further studies of the seamount and more complex and less reachable subduction and subduction-collision complexes worldwide. Dr. Sergei Freiman, a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, is a co-author of this research.

Aleksei has a Bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering from Tyumen State Oil and Gas University (Russia) and a Master’s degree in Reservoir Geoscience and Engineering from IFP School in Paris (France).

Aleksei’s academic and scientific merits were recognized in the form of scholarships from the Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel (MERCI), the Dr. Moses Strauss Marine Geoscience Department of the University of Haifa, the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, the Graduate Studies Authority, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel.

Aleksei is planning to use his MERCI scholarship to present his research online at the American Geophysical Union Meeting in Washington, D.C. (the United States of America) and offline at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna (Austria). At these prestigious international scientific venues, he is eager to popularize the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Israeli science, the University of Haifa, and the Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel."

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