English language proficiency: В2

Area of research: Chemical sciences, chemical technology, applied ecology and biotechnology

Supervisor’s research interests:

• Surface electrochemistry of hydrated nanoporous and nanostructured materials
• EPR spectroscopy of transition metal ions complexes and nitroxides as spin probes and labels in solid-state objects
• Sorption and catalytic studies of ion-exchange resins, cellulose – inorganic hydrogels composites and nanoporous oxides of Al, Ti, Zr, Si in different processes
• Homogenous and heterogeneous enzymatic catalysis
• Food Chemistry of biologically active substances and Biotechnology
• Foods enriched with biologically active substances. 

Research highlights:

• International research group (8 Ph.D students and 4 Master students from Russia, Nigeria, Ghana, Egypt and India), 2 Research Engineers;
• Master’s Exchange Programs Involvement as a supervisor of Master’s Theses (Recent Experience with supervision the Diploma thesis of the exchange student from Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany, 2018-2019);
• Employment of Ph.D. students as research engineers in the laboratory of Organic Synthesis of the Innovation Center of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Technologies, Institute of Chemical Technology, Ural Federal University.
• Research Collaboration with North Carolina State University (Raleigh, USA), Estonian University of Life Sciences (Tartu, Estonia), Dayananda Sagar University (Bangalore, India), University of Palermo (Palermo, Italy), Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, (Almaty, Kazakhstan) Moscow State University (Faculty of Chemistry, EPR group); Vorozhtsov Institute of Organic Chemistry (Novosibirsk, Russia), Saint Petersburg Research National University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, N.N. Petrov Saint Petersburg Research Center of Oncology, Sain-Petersburg, Ural University of Economics and others.
• Collaboration with Innovative Biochemical Technologies Ltd. Company, Moscow; Ural biosynthesis Ltd. Company, Yekaterinburg and others.
• Collaboration in the framework of the Ph.D. Double degree Cotutelle Program with Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia).
• Unique analytical equipment in the accredited research laboratory of complex expertise and attestation of organic materials, Institute of Chemical Technology, UrFU
• Full-equipped Microbiological and Biotechnological Laboratory Innovation Center of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Technologies, Institute of Chemical Technology, UrFU
• Research Laboratory of Organic Synthesis, Innovation Center of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Technologies, Institute of Chemical Technology, UrFU
• Financial support in the framework of the grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and Russian Science Foundation.

 Supervisor’s specific requirements to prospective PhD students:

• Field of study: 18.06.01 Chemical Technology
• Strong motivation and creativity, soft skills;
• Basic knowledge in inorganic, physical chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis including enzymatic catalysis/ food chemistry, biotechnology, food technology; any knowledge and skills in biomedicine, computer modelling and neuronets are highly desired
• Good experimental chemical/biotechnological skills.