Alex Veryaskin

Alexey (Alex) Veryaskin, born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, is the Founder of GRADIOLAB, an independent consultancy service formerly based at the School of Physics, Mathematics, and Computing of the University of Western Australia (UWA) as Trinity Research Lab.

He received his MSc degree in electronic engineering in 1973 and his PhD in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics in 1982. In his early career, he spent 12 years as a research fellow at the Sternberg State Astronomical Institute of Moscow State University, specializing in precise gravity measurements.

In 1991, he was invited to join a team of researchers at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, where he worked on a superconducting gravity gradiometer and aspects of the Satellite Test of Equivalence Principle (STEP), a European space mission.

In 1995, he moved to New Zealand, where he patented a number of critical technologies that attracted significant investment from the private sector or various institutions and government agencies across the globe.

Gravitec Instruments (NZ) Ltd, a technology company, was established in Auckland in 1996 by a group of London-based private investors with the aim of developing commercially viable instruments. Working closely with Industrial Research Ltd, Alexey served Gravitec as Chief Scientist and Technical Director until 2005, when he was invited to join the UWA physics community to continue working on various applications of gravity, magnetic, and electromagnetic gradiometry.

From 2017 to 2023, Alexey worked closely with the Lockheed Martin Corporation (USA) as a Direct Approved Vendor to co-develop a prototype of a novel gravity gradiometer, which was successfully tested in 2023 in the harsh outback environment of Western Australia. Alexey has been a New Zealand citizen since 1999 and an Australian citizen since 2012.

Recently, he moved back to Auckland, and GRADIOLAB is now permanently settled in the beautiful landscape of Laingholm Village. Alexey is still affiliated with UWA as an Adjunct Professor, and his UWA profile is available here.