Soviet of the USSR in 1987 and worked until 1991 as an advisor on the issues related to civil and military space problems for Mikhail Gorbachev and Eduard Shevardnadze on summits, which were held in Geneva (1985), in Washington, D.C. (1987) and in Moscow (1988). Personal life Sagdeev met Susan Eisenhower, a step-grandmother, and the twice divorced mother of three daughters, in 1987, at a US–USSR forum in New York City. Eisenhower is the granddaughter of Dwight D. Eisenhower 34th President of the United States, and a political scientist by profession. They rendezvoused later in Russia, the US, and various European countries before they married in 1990. Thus, he moved to live in the US. As of 2008 they are divorced. Post-Cold War Today, Sagdeev is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park, member of the US National Academy and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Sagdeev is also a member of the Supervisory Council of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe. He is also currently a Senior Advisor at the Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, where he assists clients with issues involving Russia and countries in the former Soviet Union. References External links 1932 births Living people Soviet physicists 20th-century Russian physicists Tatar people Academic staff of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Eisenhower family University of Maryland, College Park faculty Lenin Prize winners Heroes of Socialist Labour Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Soviet politicians Full Members of the USSR Academy of Sciences Full Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences Members of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences Place of birth missing (living people) Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences