Mukhtorkhon Ibodullayev

Mukhtorkhon Ibodullayev was born on 29 March 1945 in the town of Turkestan, in what was then the Chimkent Region. He graduated from the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute in 1967 and started as an assistant in its department of theoretical electrical engineering. He did postgraduate work in 1969–1972 and defended a candidate’s dissertation in 1974.

In 1976–1980 he was an associate professor in the department of general and theoretical electrical engineering, and from 1976 to 1995 he served as deputy dean of the power engineering faculty and deputy vice-rector. In 1994 he defended his doctoral dissertation before the academic council of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute and received the degree of Doctor of Technical Sciences.

From 1995 to 2000 he was dean of the General Engineering faculty of the Tashkent State Aviation Institute and headed its department of electrical engineering and electronics. In 2000–2002 he was vice-rector for the Centre of Fundamental and Humanitarian Sciences at Tashkent State Technical University, and in 2002–2005 dean of its power engineering faculty.

Since 2011 he has worked in the university’s department for the operation of aircraft and airport radio-electronic equipment, and since 2016 he has been a professor in the department of electrical engineering. He is the author of two textbooks on the theoretical foundations of electrical engineering, one teaching-and-methodological manual, fifteen methodological guides and more than ninety scientific articles.

In 2008–2015 he sat on the expert panel on academic titles at Uzbekistan’s Higher Attestation Commission, and in 1980–2008 he was a member of the academic council of the power engineering faculty.