Badmaev Valery Nikolaevich is an expert of the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation (RGNF), the Russian Science Foundation (RNF), and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, an expert of the Distributed Scientific Center for Interethnic and Interreligious Problems of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation). He is also an honorary worker of higher professional education of the Russian Federation, Honored Scientist of the Republic of Kalmykia. Author of more than 200 scientific and educational works, including five scientific monographs. Head of the Master's program "Philosophy and Culture of Buddhism" at Kalmyk State University. Member of the editorial boards of the leading peer-reviewed scientific journals included in the list of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation: “Bulletin of the Kalmyk University”, “Humanities of the South of Russia”, "Bulletin of the Maikop State Technological University". Candidate's (2009 and 2013) and doctoral (2010) dissertations on philosophical sciences were defended under his scientific guidance. Expert of the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation (RGNF), the Russian Science Foundation (RNF), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR). Since 2013, he has been accredited in the Federal Register of experts in the scientific and technical sphere of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Expert of the Distributed Scientific Center for Interethnic and Interreligious Problems of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Expert of the Federal Agency for Nationalities. Member of the Russian Philosophical Society. Member of the Dissertation Council (DM 212.009.08) for the defense of doctoral and candidate dissertations. H Index in the Scopus database is 3, the total number of citations is 23: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57190416152

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