Leonid Kolotilo

Leonid Kolotilo studied at St. Petersburg Naval Institute. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is geography, geophysics and hydrography. Employment is recorded with Russian Geographical Society. Distinctions recorded are Medal "In Commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Saint Petersburg", Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy", Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" and Medal "For Impeccable Service".

• Name — Leonid Kolotilo • Native Name — Леонид Колотило • Born — 16 December 1958 • Birthplace — Leningrad, Soviet Union • Fields — Geography, Geophysics, Hydrography, Cartography • Workplaces — Russian Geographical Society • Education — Moscow State University • Academic Advisors — Yuri Tarasyuk Kirill Kondratyev

Author of the theory of self-organization and self-regulation of natural systems D-SELF along with the other authors In 1987, an initiative group of scientists engaged in interdisciplinary research of open dynamical systems. At first, the group consisted of four people: G.M. Degtyarev, A.G. Ivanov-Rostovtsev, L.G. Kolotilo and O.A. Lyubchenko. Several dozen specialists from various fields of natural sciences and humanities joined the work in different periods. The SELF model with applications was published in a series of articles of DAN, presented by academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences: A.F. Treshnikov, V.I. Ilyichev, K.Ya. Kondratiev, N.S. Solomenko, E.I. Shemyakin, S.L. Solovyov and others. Corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences S.P. Kurdyumov, L.N. Rykunov and other scientists also participated in the D–SELF project. Expanded versions of the DAN articles have been published in various academic and applied publications. Some of these works have been translated into English and published abroad. D-SELF is a scientific field of interdisciplinary research of systems of various nature in self-organization and self–regulation. D-SELF is the initial abbreviation for a Double (dual) general process combining SELF-organization and SELF-regulation. The name D-SELF was proposed by A.G. Ivanov-Rostovtsev and L.G. Kolotilo in 1989 and first appeared in the collection of scientific articles of the Pulkovo Observatory (Saint-Petersburg). The name D-SELF is an abbreviation of the first letter of the word Double (dual), which refers to two processes whose names begin with the word SELF: SELF-organization and SELF-regulation.