Mikhail Lobanov
Russian mathematician, left-wing politician and trade union activist
Mikhail Sergeyevich Lobanov (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Лобанов; born 24 February 1984) is a Russian mathematician, left-wing politician, trade union activist, and former associate professor at Moscow State University.
Biography
Mikhail Lobanov was born into a family of engineers: his father worked as a builder, and his mother was a garment manufacturing technologist. He graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in discrete mathematics in 2006. He was a Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences since 2009 (the topic of his PhD thesis "On the relationship between algebraic immunity and nonlinearity of Boolean functions").
Since his student years, he participated in grassroots activism and the trade union movement (among other things, he personally supported the strike of workers at a cement plant in the city of Mikhaylov, Ryazan Oblast). A number of intra-university campaigns aimed at protecting the interests of students and teachers of Moscow State University are associated with his name.
In 2007, he organized a film club with his comrades at MSU, supported a group of dissatisfied students of the Faculty of Sociology (OD-Group). In 2009, he was among the founders and leaders of the "Initiative Group of students, graduate students and employees of Moscow State University", which arose from a successful campaign against the university administration's attempt to tighten the rules of admission to dormitories. Co-founder (in 2013) of the independent trade union "University Solidarity", member of the trade union committee at Moscow State University and the central council of the trade union association.
During the 2012 Russian protests, he was one of the organizers of scientific and educational columns at opposition marches.
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