M.A. Bespyatov graduated from Novosibirsk State Technical University in 2002 with a degree in Microelectronics and Semiconductor Devices. In 2006, he received the Candidate of Sciences (Ph.D. equivalent) degree in Physical Chemistry and Condensed Matter Physics. He was a recipient of a DAAD fellowship in 2018 and completed a research internship at the University of Rostock (Germany) under the supervision of Professor S.P. Verevkin.

Currently, Dr. Bespyatov is a Senior Research Scientist at the Laboratory of Thermodynamics of Inorganic Materials, Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also leads a research group specializing in the investigation of low-temperature thermodynamic properties of novel functional materials.

Dr. Bespyatov serves as an expert for the Russian Science Foundation and as a reviewer for the journals Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Next Materials, Solid State Sciences, Thermochimica Acta, and Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry.

His research interests include the study of low-temperature thermodynamic properties of solids, the development of high-precision adiabatic calorimetry methods, and methodologies for the processing and analysis of experimental data.

The CV is available on the HSE university website.

Vladimir A. Cherepanov (Professor, Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia) graduated from Ural State University in 1977. He received his PhD in 1984. Since 1977 to 2001 he has been working in the Ural State University starting from research fellow and later as Lecturer, and Assistant Professor. After defending Dr. Sci. Thesis at 2001, he became a full professor (2002) and served as Dean of the Chemical Faculty (2002 – 2011) and Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry (Physical and Inorganic Chemistry since 2016) (2008 – 2025). Currently, he is a professor of this Department and a chief researcher in the Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. He worked under exchange and grant programs at the universities of Birmingham (1987–1988), Edinburgh (1993–1994), Oxford (2006) in the UK, and at ITAC Company (Japan, 2000, 2001). His research interests are mainly focused on the study of phase equilibria in oxide systems, as well as stability, oxygen nonstoichiometry, defect structure and functional properties of oxide materials.

Stefano Vecchio Ciprioti graduated in Chemistry with honor in 1991 and received his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Science in 1995. He is an Assistant Professor since December 1996 and an Associate Professor since March 2019 in the Department of Basic and Applied Science for Engineering (S.B.A.I.) (Chemical section “Paolo Silvestroni”) of the Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome.

He is an author of more than 150 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and more than 150 contributions to national and international congresses devoted to the development of thermal analysis in the fields of environment, pharmaceutical, food and cultural heritage (being them the most important ones) with particular reference to kinetic and thermodynamic study of chemical and phase change processes. His papers provided more than 3600 citations, Hirsch index=37 (source - Scopus, April 2026).

He is currently (2026-2028) the President of the Lazio Territorial Section of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI), which includes more than 400 members among more than 6000 members of the SCI society. Between 2020 and 2025 he was the Chair of the Italian Association of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (A.I.C.A.T.).

Since 2026 he is a member of the GICAT Board.

Since 2022 he is a Chairperson of the International Scientific Committee of “Thermodynamics & Thermochemistry” of ICTAC, International Confederation of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry.

He was the Chairman of XXXIV National Congress on Calorimetry, Thermal Analysis and Applied Thermodynamics, held in Rome in June 2012, and a co-Chairperson of the 5th Central and Eastern European and 14th Mediterranean Joint Conference on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis held in August 2019. In May 2022 and May 2024 he organized in Laurino, Salerno (Italy) the first and the second editions of the International Symposium of Chemical Thermodynamics for Young Scientists (ISCTYR and ISCTYR 2, respectively), and the first edition (2024) of a Workshop devoted to the determination of heat capacity. Currently (April 2026) he is organizing the third edition of the International Symposium of Chemical Thermodynamics for Young Scientists (ISCTYR 3), and the second edition (2026) of a Workshop devoted to ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents. All these events were organized under the aegis of ICTAC.

He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Springer) and he is a member of the Editorial Boards of Thermochimica Acta (Ed. Elsevier), Hybrid Advances (Ed. Elsevier), Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry A (Ed. Springer) and of the Open Access journal Polymers (MDPI). Finally, he is a referee in some important international journals, such as Material Chemistry and Physics, Microchimica Acta, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, the European Physical Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, Journal of the Solid State Chemistry, Fuel Processing Technology, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, Journal of Molecular Structure, Fluid Phase Equilibria, Bullettin of the Chemical Society of Ethiopia, Fuel, Food Science and Technology, Energy and Fuels, BMC Biophysics, The Journal of Physical Chemistry, Journal of Molecular Liquids, Polymer Degradation and Stability, Archives of Metallurgy and Materials, Toxicological & Environmental Chemistry, Italian Journal of Food Science.

The primary focus of K.S. Gavrichev’s studies is the development of inorganic substances and materials for various purposes. Specifically, the staff of his Laboratory of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences have conducted research on the thermal behavior, phase transformations, and thermodynamic properties of rare-earth element compounds that are promising luminescent materials, materials for solid-state lasers, catalysts, and components of protective coatings. Currently, the laboratory’s primary research is focused on the development of new thermal barrier coating materials for power plant turbines and aircraft engines.

K.S. Gavrichev participates in organizing international conferences on chemical thermodynamics in Russia and a number of other scientific events, and has co-authored over 350 articles in Russian and international scientific journals. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry (Журнал физической химии), the Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry (Журнал неорганической химии), and Inorganic Materials (Неорганические материалы).

Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry at the A.M. Butlerov Chemical Institute of Kazan Federal University, kpfu.ru/Valery.Gorbatchuk. He graduated from the Chemistry Department of Kazan State University (now Kazan Federal University) in 1979. He defended his PhD thesis in 1982 and his doctoral dissertation in 2003. He specializes in the thermodynamics of intermolecular interactions, molecular recognition, supramolecular chemistry, and the polymorphism of organic substances, including medicinal substances.

In 2008, Alexandra V. Khvan received her PhD in metallurgy, and in 2020- D.Sc. degree in physical chemistry. For over two decades, she has been working at leading research organizations and universities in Russia and Germany. Currently, Alexandra Vyacheslavovna is a senior researcher and head of the Chemical Thermodynamics Laboratory at the Faculty of Chemistry of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Alexandra Vyacheslavovna’s research interests include multicomponent phase diagrams of metallic and ceramic systems, phase equilibria, alloys, optimization of alloy heat treatment, calorimetric studies of inorganic substances, thermodynamic modeling, and CALPHAD.

Work Experience

• June 2013-May 2023: Director of the Research Center for Thermochemistry of Materials, NUST MISIS
• December 2011-June 2013: Researcher, RWTH Aachen, Materials Chemistry
• October 2010-July 2013: Associate Professor, NUST MISIS, Department of Physical Chemistry
• November 2010-November 2011: Researcher, TU-Bergakademie Freiberg, Institut für Werkstoffwissenschaft
• December 2008-October 2010: Assistant Professor, NUST MISIS
• September 2008-June 2009: Lead Engineer, NUST MISIS
• September 2004-December 2008: Engineer, NUST MISIS

Membership

Current

• Permanent Member of the Materials Science International Team Global (since 2010);
• Member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Materials Science and Technology” (IOM3);
• Member of the Committee on Thermophysical Properties of Substances of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 2017).

Previous

• Guest Editor, Physics and Chemistry of Minerals. Tribute to Alexandra Navrotsky: From Microscopic to Macroscopic (2024-2025);
• Member of the Advisory Board of ARUA CoE-MEN UKRI (2020-2024);
• NUST MISIS Representative in the Scientific Group Thermodata Europe (SGTE) (2015-2023);
• Member of the Organizing Committee of MRS Symposium F22-026 “Modern Materials Thermodynamics” (November 27, 2022 - December 2, 2022);
• Acting Head of the RAS Committee representative on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis in the Alloy Phase Diagram International Commission (APDIC) (2015-2022);
• Member of the International Organizing Committee of the Calphad 2013 Conference (Computer coupling of phase diagrams and thermochemistry) (San Sebastian, Spain);
• Co-Chair of the Alloy Phase Diagram International Commission World Round Robin Seminar 2016, Moscow, Russia.

Michael G. Kiselev is a Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Director of the G.A. Krestov Institute of Solution Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Head of the Laboratory of NMR Spectroscopy and Numerical Methods for Studying Liquid Systems.

E.N. Korchagina was born in Leningrad in a family of geophysicists. In 1967 she entered the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute named after M.I. Kalinin (LPI) at the Faculty of Physics and Mechanics at the Department of Aero-Thermodynamics. The first place of work after graduation in 1973 was the Galurgy Research Institute, where she worked first as an engineer, then as a junior researcher and dealt with heat and mass transfer and hydrodynamics in underground leaching chambers. In 1981, at LPI, she defended her thesis for the degree of candidate of technical sciences. In 1987, she entered the competition for work at the Mendeleev All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Metrology as a senior researcher, scientific keeper of the state primary standard of combustion energy unit (GET 16-78). She has developed a number of regulatory documents (GOSTs, methods, recommendations for metrology), published more than 70 articles, developed a large set of standard certified samples for bomb and gas calorimetry, she is a long-term organizer of seminars and continuing education courses on the topic “Calorimetry of combustion and measurement of quality parameters of fuels.” In 2004, she was appointed head of the laboratory of calorimetry and high-purity metrological substances. The work started in 2007 to improve the standard ended with the creation of a set of new generation reference installations and the approval of the state primary standard for units of combustion energy, specific combustion energy and volumetric combustion energy (GET 16-2010). In 2012, under her leadership, the state special standard for the amount of heat in the field of calorimetry of dissolution and reactions (GET 133-2012) was modernized, the scientist of which she was appointed and remained until 2023. In recent years, both benchmarks have undergone improvement procedures. GET 16 was modernized and approved in a new composition in 2018 with the addition of two gas calorimeters for burning low-calorie and high-calorie gases. In 2023, the laboratory completed a project to improve GET 133, which made it possible to implement the method of isothermal titration calorimetry and expand the measurement range of the primary special reference GET 133 to the field of microcalorimetry.

Currently, E.N. Korchagina is the supervisor of projects to create state standard samples of temperature and heat of melting of organic substances, to expand the list of standard samples of volumetric combustion energy and Wobbe number, to develop multiparameter standard samples of coal quality parameters.

The laboratory has been a provider of inter-laboratory comparative tests of coals, petroleum products, natural gas for more than ten years, in which more than 100 laboratories of the country and neighboring countries take part.

Under the leadership of E.N. Korchagina, the laboratory, as a coordinator, organized and successfully conducted a number of international comparisons of national standards within the framework of COOMET with the participation of China, Turkey, the Republic of Belarus, France, Germany, Romania.

Alexey Vladimirovich Markin is a Doctor of Sciences in Chemistry, Professor, Honorary Worker of Education of the Russian Federation, Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry, and Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry at the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod. He has published over 350 scientific papers, eight textbooks, and 16 teaching aids, as well as one chapter in a monograph. He has supervised the defense of six PhD dissertations and trained over 45 specialists and master’s students. Since 2018, he has been a member of the Expert Council for Chemistry of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.

He received grants from the President of the Russian Federation for young PhD candidates and eight grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research; he participated in three State Programs of the Federal Target Program “Scientific and Scientific-Pedagogical Personnel of Innovative Russia” for 2009-2013. He is an expert at the Russian Science Foundation, was a reviewer of grant applications from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and is a reviewer for international journals such as The Journal of Chemical and Engineering Data, The Journal of Chemical Thermodynamics, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Molecules, and the Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry (Журнал физической химии).

He specializes in the chemical thermodynamics of fullerene and dendrimer materials, as well as organoelement and polymer compounds. His primary research interests involve the use of experimental calorimetric methods to determine the thermodynamic properties of these materials over a wide temperature range. These calorimetric methods serve as reference values ​​for various thermophysical and technological calculations, when planning and conducting research into the synthesis and properties of promising materials with potential for practical application.

Regents Professor, School of Molecular Sciences and School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy

Affiliated Faculty Member, School of Earth and Space Exploration

Director, Center for Materials of the Universe

Arizona State University

Alexandra Navrotsky was educated at the Bronx High School of Science and the University of Chicago (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in physical chemistry). After postdoctoral work in Germany and at Penn State University, she joined the faculty in chemistry at Arizona State University, where she remained until her move to the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences at Princeton University in 1985. She chaired that department from 1988 to 1991 and was active in the Princeton Materials Institute. In 1997, she became an interdisciplinary professor of ceramic, earth, and environmental materials chemistry at the University of California at Davis and was appointed Edward Roessler Chair in Mathematical and Physical Sciences in 2001. She served as interim dean of the University of California Davis College of Letters and Sciences Department of Mathematical and Physical Sciences from 2013 to 2017. She organized the NEAT (Nano and New Materials in Energy, the Environment, Agriculture, and Technology) research group in 2002 and has directed the Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory since her arrival in 1997.

Professional Accomplishments:

• World Academy of Ceramics, Science Professional Member 2017
• W. David Kingery Award, American Ceramic Society 2016
• Victor M. Goldschmidt Award, Geochemical Society 2016
• American Philosophical Society 2011
• Roebling Medal (the highest honor of the Mineralogical Society of America) 2009
• Harry H. Hess Medal, American Geophysical Union 2006
• Spriggs Phase Equilibria Award 2005
• Urey Medal (the highest career honor of the European Association of Geochemistry) 2004
• The Mineralogical Society (Great Britain), Fellow 2004
• Benjamin Franklin Medal in Earth Science 2002
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Uppsala University, Sweden 1995
• Ross Coffin Purdy Award, American Ceramic Society 1995
• National Academy of Sciences, Fellow 1993.
• Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, editor 1986-1991
• Geochemical Society, Fellow 1997
• Vice-President, Mineralogical Society of America (1991-1992), President (1992-1993)
• American Geophysical Union, Fellow 1988
• Mineralogical Society of America Award 1981
• Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship 1973

A.P. Nemudry, Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry SB RAS, is a specialist in solid-state chemistry and materials science and the author of over 500 scientific papers, including one monograph, two chapters in monographs, and eight patents.

A.P. Nemudry has made significant contributions to the study of the real structure and reactivity of nonstoichiometric ABO_3-δ perovskites with mixed oxygen and electron conductivity (MOEC). He established the mechanisms of nanostructuring in MOEC oxides by introducing compositional disorder into the oxygen and cation sublattices through a reduction in the size of ferroelastic 90° twins and coherent domain fusion resulting from local ordering in the B sublattice. It was shown that domain walls act as channels for facilitated diffusion of oxygen ions. Based on nanostructured oxides, the following have been developed:

• Materials for oxygen-permeable membranes that can be used in catalytic membrane reactors for hydrocarbon conversion;
• Cathode materials that provide high peak power for microtubular solid oxide fuel cells due to high rates of oxygen exchange with the gas phase.

Under the supervision of A.P. Nemudry, equipment and new relaxation methods for obtaining equilibrium and kinetic data on oxygen exchange for oxides have been developed.

In the kinetics of oxygen exchange between oxides with the gas phase, A.P. Nemudry was the first to propose considering nonstoichiometric oxides as continuous homologues and a methodology for analyzing kinetic data in an isostoichiometric cross-section.

Artem Andreevich Novikov, PhD in Chemistry, is a Junior Researcher in the Laboratory of Chemical Thermodynamics at the Faculty of Chemistry at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He has published in peer-reviewed journals and participated in Russian and international conferences.

In 2020, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Chemistry at Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 2025, he defended his dissertation for the degree of PhD in Chemistry, which focused on the thermodynamic modeling of water-salt systems based on sodium and potassium orthophosphates. He is also a teaching fellow in the Department of Physical Chemistry.

His research interests include the chemical thermodynamics of solutions, including the modeling of water-salt systems and gas solutions in liquid media.

Prof. Dr. Andrey A. Rempel graduated from the Ural Federal University in 1981 where he received his diploma in experimental nuclear physics. He then became a junior researcher at the Institute of Solid State Chemistry of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and received his PhD degree in Physical Chemistry in 1984 there. In 1992−1998 he was a postdoctoral AvH fellow in the solid state physics group of Prof. Dr. H.-E. Schaefer (Stuttgart University, Germany). He earned his Dr. Sci. (Habilitation) degree in Physical Chemistry in 1997 and a title of Professor in 2007, and was elected as a Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2019. His research interests primarily include nonstoichiometric ceramics, high entropy transition metals alloys and theirs compounds with carbon and oxygen for diverse applications.

Dr. Shi earned his B.S. in Chemistry from Qufu Normal University, China, in 2002. He subsequently obtained his Doctor of Science (Sc.D.) in Physical Chemistry from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2008. From 2008 to 2012, he served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Brigham Young University. He then was a Research Assistant at the University of Utah from 2012 to 2014. In 2014, Dr. Shi joined DICP as an Associate Professor and was concurrently appointed Group Leader of Thermochemistry Laboratory. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2015. Currently, he holds three key positions: Group Leader of Thermochemistry Laboratory at DICP, Director of Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Thermochemistry for Energy Materials, and Director of Dalian Technology Innovation Center for Energy Materials. His research focuses on the chemical thermodynamics of energy materials, with three core directions:

1. Thermochemistry and Calorimetry: Development of advanced calorimetric techniques and instrumentation, as well as the measurement of fundamental thermochemical data for functional and energy materials.
2. Thermodynamic Properties of Energy Materials: Precise determination and characterization of the thermodynamic properties of energy materials via state-of-the-art calorimetric methods, coupled with thermodynamic insights into the structure-function relationships of these materials.
3. Phase Change Materials: Design and synthesis of novel phase change materials, construction of high-efficiency thermal energy storage and temperature control systems based on phase change materials, and exploration of emerging applications for phase change materials.

• Foreign Member of European Academy of Sciences (EurASc)
• Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC)
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, Germany
• NEDO, AIST & ITIT fellowship, Japan
• 100 Talent Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Guangxi Bagui Scholar, China
• Guilin Lijiang Scholar, China

Li-Xian Sun is one of the candidates for the 100 talents Scheme of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (received the final Assessment Excellence Award), the German Humboldt Scholar, member of Royal Society of Chemistry, the first full-time candidates for batch of “Banggui Scholars” in Guangxi (excellent examination), Head of Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center, Head of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Information Materials. In recent years, he has chaired an impressive number of domestic and international research projects.

So far, he has published more than 700 scientific papers with more than 12200 citations and H-index of 59, and was granted 142 patents. In 2015, he was elected fellow of the Royal Chemical Society. He was identified as an Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar every year from 2014 to 2018, and was in the top 10 ranking of highly cited scholars in the energy category in 2017. The research on the structure and electrochemical performance of the new (La, Mg)-Ni hydrogen storage alloy was awarded the second prize of Guangxi Natural Science in 2012. The research on low-dimensional functional material design, hydrogen storage and biosensing characteristics won the second prize of Guangxi Natural Science in the 2017. In addition, he has won 7 provincial and ministerial achievement awards. During his tenure, he organized 12 international and domestic academic conferences, some of which served as chairman or co-chair of the Organizing Committee.

He as well as his group created a laboratory of new energy materials foundation and application research, and established a collaborative innovation center for new energy materials structure and performance. He has carried out research work on new composite phase change energy storage materials, hydrogen storage and generation materials, fuel cells, thermodynamics, sensors, etc. Through the continuous introduction of talents, an innovative team of academic talents with multi-disciplinary integration and reasonable frame of professional title/age has been constructed (17 academic staffs, including 7 professors, 2 associate professors, 15 doctors, and 2 masters). He has cultivated over 100 MS and PhD students, more than 30 of whom continued working in leading academia institutions.

In the research field of high-capacity hydrogen storage materials, new types of hydrogen storage alloy materials, complex hydrides and new type of MOF (metal organic framework) materials have been systematically developed. He proposed to dope the catalyst with hydrogen overflow to the porous complex material, which effectively improved the hydrogen storage capacity of MOFs under mild conditions. Meantime, he studied amino-modified MOFs with high gas adsorption capacity, graphene supported Cu-BTC hydrogen storage material, nano-sized Al-based MOFs with high thermal stability. The database of hydrogen storage materials has been established (including 467 metal hydrides, 210 MOF compounds, 102 composite hydrides), improving the reference basis for their design and synthesis.

In the research field of new hydrogen generation materials, his group has successfully developed a new aluminum-based alloy hydrogen generation material which is suitable for fuel cells. The Al-H₂O hydrogen reaction evaluation device was built to realize the connection with the fuel cell and the on-site hydrogen generation. In addition, alloy Co-B-M (M: Ni, Zn, W, etc.) was investigated to catalyze hydrolysis of sodium borohydride, ammonia borane, borohydride, etc. Also, the group carried out research work in biofuel cells, nickel-hydrogen batteries, lithium-ion batteries, supercapacitors, electrochemical sensor, phase change energy storage material, etc.

Present and Previous Positions

• 2012.12 – present, Dean of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Guilin University of Electronic Technology (GUET); Director of Key Laboratory of Information Materials, Guangxi Province, China;Head of Guangxi Collaborative Innovation Center;Group Leader of New Energy Science & Technology; Guangxi Bagui Scholar; Excellent Scientist of China
• 2001.8-2012.11, Prof. and Group Leader of Materials & Thermochemistry Laboratory, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Dalian National Laboratory (DNL) for Clean Energy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Dalian, Liaoning Prov., China; Director of Key Laboratory of Energy Materials & Thermochemistry, Liaoning Province. 100 Talent Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 1996.10-2001.8, Guest Prof. (AIST Fellow) (AIST/ITIT, NEDO, fellowship), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• 1995.5-1996.10, Postdoc (Alexander von Humboldt fellowship), Department of Chemistry, University of Jena, Germany
• 1995.2-1995.4, Guest researcher (STA fellowship), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
• 1992.2-1995.1, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Hunan Normal University
• 1987.7-1991.2, lecturer and Director, Department of basic Sciences, Hunan Agricultural University
• 1991.8-1995.1, Ph.D. Degree (Analytical Chemistry), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University
• 1984.8-1987.7, Master Degree (Analytical Chemistry), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University
• 1980.8-1984.7, Dip Edu. (Analytical Chemistry), College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University

Alexander Matveevich Toikka is a Doctor of Chemical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics at the Institute of Chemistry at Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU), and an Honorary Professor of SPbU. He is a graduate of the Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) State University (Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Solution Theory – Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics), completed his postgraduate studies at the same department, and then worked as a research fellow, associate professor, and professor of the department. From 1999 to the present, he has been the Head of the Department of Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics at Saint Petersburg University. In his work, A.M. Toikka continues the traditions of the founder of the department (1951), Professor A.V. Storonkin, and other outstanding scientists whose names are associated with the formation and development of the Department of Solution Theory (since 1978 – Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics): Academicians A.I. Rusanov and M.M. Shultz, Professors M.P. Susarev, V.T. Zharov, V.K. Filippov, and others.

His research interests encompass a wide range of contemporary problems, from fundamental issues of general, chemical, and nonequilibrium thermodynamics to chemical engineering. Among his key achievements, fundamental results, both theoretical and experimental, in the field of reaction-mass transfer processes and combined processes in chemical engineering are noteworthy. This work required obtaining a large array of experimental data on equilibria and processes in multicomponent systems, analyzing and generalizing the thermodynamic behavior of these systems, and applying principles of thermodynamic stability theory, including studies of critical states in chemically reacting environments. One of the key features of A.M. Toikka’s approach to solving thermodynamic problems, in addition to a thorough analysis of fundamental principles, is the use of the apparatus of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, laws at the atomic and molecular level, and new mathematical methods. He established a new research program at St. Petersburg State University focused on fundamental and applied membrane technology and materials science: the creation and study of polymer and composite membranes for pervaporation and gas separation.

A.M. Toikka’s research results have been published in over 170 papers in high-ranking international journals (according to Scopus and Web of Science 2026), focusing on the thermodynamic stability of complex systems, phase and chemical processes in heterogeneous systems, and critical states. He has supervised nine grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (since 1993), including the international grant from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR-Iran) (2017-2020), and four grants supported by the Russian Science Foundation in the fields of membrane processes, critical phenomena in chemically reacting environments, and related problems. Twelve PhD theses and one doctoral dissertation have been defended under A.M. Toikka’s supervision.

Chairman of the Physical and Colloid Chemistry Section of the D.I. Mendeleyev Russian Chemical Society. Member of the Fluid Separation Working Group of the European Federation of Industrial Engineers, the IUPAC Subcommittee on Solubility, and the Chemical Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry Section of the Scientific Council on Physical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. One of the organizers of the new academic program “Chemistry, Physics, and Mechanics of Materials” at Russian universities (as part of the Educational and Methodological Council headed by Academician Yu.D. Tretyakov). Member of the Presidium of the Educational and Methodological Council of the Federal University of Higher Education, Ufa State Scientific Center for Chemistry (training areas 04.03.02, 04.04.02). He was an associate editor and a member of the editorial boards of international journals (Chemical Engineering Journal, Membranes, and others), gave invited lectures at European universities (Heidelberg, Kaiserslautern, Rostock, and others), plenary talks, and was a visiting professor at the Toulouse Polytechnic Institute (France, 2016-2017). He was awarded the “Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation” badge (2009). Honorary Professor of St. Petersburg State University (since 2024).

Dmitry Tsvetkov (Head of the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry, Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia) graduated from the Ural State University in 2007. He received his PhD in 2010. Since 2003, he has worked at the Ural State University (since 2012, Ural Federal University), first as a laboratory assistant, then as an engineer, assistant, and associate professor. After defending his doctoral dissertation in 2021, he worked as a professor, and from 2025 to the present, he has been the Head of the Department of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. He completed internships at Ecole Centrale Paris; CRISMAT, University of Caen; Peter A. Rock Thermochemistry Laboratory, University of California, Davis. Research interests include the study of thermodynamics of formation and disordering and transport phenomena in solid oxide and halide materials for application in various electrochemical and photovoltaic devices such as solar cells, solid oxide fuel cells and oxygen-permeable membranes; as well as the development of experimental setups and automation of experiments.

The CV is available on the ASU (Arizona State University) website.

Sergey P. Verevkin: Graduated from Kuibyshev Politechical Institute in 1978. Ph.D. in Minsk State University, USSR in 1984. Postdoctoral work at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA). DAAD* Fellow (1987-1988, Germany) and Alexander von Humboldt Fellow (1991-1993, Germany). From 2010 to 2023 Professor for Physical Chemistry at the University of Rostock (Germany). Since 2017 he has been a Professor of Chemistry at Samara State Technical University. He has been Councilor of the International Association of Chemical Thermodynamics and Chairperson of Scientific Committee “Thermodynamics & thermochemistry” of International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. He has been a Senior Expert at the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics at the University of Rostock since 2024. He published more than 500 scientific papers. His main interest is the application of thermochemistry for the development of advanced materials.

* Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst e.V. (DAAD, «Германская служба академических обменов») входит в перечень иностранных и международных организаций, деятельность которых признана нежелательной на территории Российской Федерации.

Alexey I. Victorov is Professor and Chair of Physical Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, St.Petersburg State University. He holds PhD (1987) and Dr.Sci. (1997) from the same university. His studies in the area of Molecular Thermodynamics are focused at phase equilibria modeling, macroscopic behavior and structure of soft matter, and self-assembly on nanoscale (branching micelles, asphaltenes, ion-exchange membranes, block copolymer gels, etc.). Part of his work was performed during extended stays at UC Berkeley*, TU Delft, DTH Lyngby, University of Metz and University of Oldenburg. His lectures at St.Petersburg State University include courses on Physical Chemistry, Molecular Thermodynamics of Fluids, Soft Matter Systems and their Modeling.

* University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, «Калифорнийский университет в Беркли»), США входит в перечень иностранных и международных организаций, деятельность которых признана нежелательной на территории Российской Федерации.

Mikhail I. Yagofarov was born in 1997 in Kazan. During his school years, he entered the Physical Chemistry Department at Kazan University, where Olympiad training was held; he became the winner of the All-Russian and International Chemistry Olympiads. He graduated from the A.M. Butlerov Chemical Institute of Kazan Federal University in 2019. In 2024, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Chemical Sciences in the specialty 1.4.4. Physical Chemistry on the topic: “New approaches to the study of temperature dependences of thermodynamic functions of phase transitions of organic non-electrolytes.” Co-author of 70 scientific articles in the field of thermodynamics of organic compounds. Organizer and member of the jury of Olympiads held by Kazan Federal University. Laureate of All-Russian and regional prizes for achievements in scientific and pedagogical work. Associate Professor of the Physical Chemistry Department.

After graduating from NSU, Lyudmila Nikolaevna Zelenina worked at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Laboratory of Chemical Thermodynamics of Inorganic Materials as a senior researcher. Since 2007, she has held the rank of associate professor in physical chemistry. She also teaches laboratory classes on chemical thermodynamics to third-year chemistry students in the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at NSU and is the author of several textbooks. A qualified specialist in experimental thermodynamics, she has authored approximately 150 scientific publications devoted to the study of new compounds using tensimetric and calorimetric methods.

Kseniya V. Zherikova graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Novosibirsk State University in 2003. She then entered graduate school at the A.V. Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IIC SB RAS), where she defended her PhD dissertation in inorganic and physical chemistry in 2007, titled “Volatile Compounds of Hafnium(IV) and Zirconium(IV): Synthesis, Structure, and Properties.” Since 2012, she has held the position of Senior Researcher at IIC SB RAS.

Kseniya Zherikova’s research focuses on volatile metal complexes with organic ligands, used as precursors for the production of metal, oxide, and composite film materials using metal-oxide chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD). The cornerstone of her research is the development of a thermodynamic approach to diagnostic and prognostic assessment based on the study of the structural features of compounds, the thermodynamic properties associated with their melting and vaporization processes, and the principles of group additivity.

Kseniya Vasilievna’s research includes over 100 publications in international journals, as well as numerous presentations, including invited and plenary sessions, at national and international conferences.

Andrey Yu. Zuev (Professor, Institute of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia) graduated from Ural State University in 1982. He received his PhD in 1986. From 1987 to 1999, he worked successively as a senior researcher and associate professor at Ural State University. From 2000 to 2005, he was a research fellow at the Research Center in Jülich, Germany. In 2008, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Washington. In 2012, after receiving his PhD, he became a professor of physical chemistry at Ural Federal University. His research interests mainly focus on the thermodynamics of formation and disordering of advanced oxide materials as well as studying the properties of these materials governed by their defect structure.

Irina A. Zvereva is a professor in the Department of Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics at the Institute of Chemistry at St. Petersburg State University. She is the founder and long-time director of the Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Resource Center at the St. Petersburg State University Science Park.

She is the director of 20 research projects supported by Russian and international foundations. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Springer) and Glass Physics and Chemistry (MAIK, Springer). She is a member of the organizing and scientific committees of more than 10 conferences in the field of materials chemistry and thermal analysis.

She is the author of a monograph, two chapters in international monographs, and over 200 articles in scientific journals. Her current research focuses on the development of catalysts and photocatalysts and the study of their thermodynamic and functional properties.