Denis S. Ushakov — Doctor of Economics, Professor.

In 2022, he was included in the global World Top 2% Scientists ranking by Elsevier, taking the position of the most cited economist in Thailand and 42nd place in the global ranking of economist citation. His scientific contribution has been recognized with the Russian Government Prize for victory in the national competition "Young Scientists of the Transport Industry of Russia" (2008), as well as repeated internal awards from leading universities, including the title of Best Researcher in the Humanities at Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (2022, 2026).

In addition to his position as Associate Professor at Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University (Bangkok, Thailand), he is a Professor at Rostov State University of Economics (Russia), and a Visiting Professor at Airlangga University (Surabaya, Indonesia).

He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed international journal "The EURASEANs" and a member of editorial boards of scientific publications in Russia and Indonesia.

His publication activity includes over 300 works in journals indexed in international databases, as well as a number of monographs published in the USA, UK, Russia and Germany, demonstrating sustained research productivity and a broad scientific outlook.

The philosophical system "Tristasis" took shape as a continuation of the author's research trajectory, which moved from applied questions of economics, tourism, and management toward ontology. Its foundation is the ontology of holding and irrational materialism; the systematic exposition is given in the treatise Tristasis, and the method is applied to six registers of philosophical thought in the monograph Awakening Without a Sleeper.