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  • College Administration

    • Prof. O.M. Nefedov, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the College, Chairman of the Scientific Council

    • Prof. N. A. Platé, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees

    • Prof. D. A. Lemenovsky, Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Council

    • Prof. N .P. Tarasova, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vice-President of the College

    • Dr. I. V. Svitanko, Vice-Chairman of the College

    • Prof. Roald Hoffmann, Member of the Board of Trustees


  • Faculty

College Administration


    Oleg M. NEFEDOV

    Professor, President of the Higher Chemical College, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

    Prof. Nefedov was born in 1931. He graduated from Russian Mendeleyev's University of Chemical Technology in 1954. Having received a Ph. D. degree from the same school in 1957 he became a Professor in Organic Chemistry in N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in 1967. Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1987. Professor Nefedov is the Head of Laboratory of carbene and small-ring chemistry In N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry RAS. His primary scientific works involve development of general approaches to synthesis of bivalent carbon, silicon and germanium compounds. With co-workers Prof. Nefedov conducted extensive studies of properties and synthesis of carbenes and their analogues, cyclopropanes and cyclopropenes as well as a number of other non-stable compounds and small rings, developped ways of low-temperature stabilization and direct specral investigation of carbenes, free radicals and unstable derivatives of silicon and germanium. Currently he is heading research programs in applied chemistry of medical products, artificial pyretroids, fluoroaromatic compounds and pheromones.

    Prof. Nefedov is also the Chief Editor of "Uspekhi Khimii", "Russian Chemical Bulletin", "Mendeleyev Communications", the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Mendeleyev's University of Chemical Technology.


    Roald HOFFMANN

    Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
    Invited Professor of the Higher Chemical College, Member of the Board of Trustees
    Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

    Prof. Hoffmann was born in 1937. Having graduated from Columbia University in 1958, Prof. Hoffmann received scientific degrees in 1960 and 1962 in Harvard University. He is undoubtedly one of the most prominent chemists of the scientific community. Prof. Hoffmann's theoretical studies had a profound influence on development of organic and inorganic chemistry, provided chemists by new approaches in understanding of molecular structure and reactivity. Prof. Hoffmann has been working in Cornell University (USA) for 26 years. He has a considerable number of prestigeous professional awards, including Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981.Alongside with research, Prof. Roald Hoffmann is proud of having an opportunity to teach. For him teaching and research are inseparable.Thousands of students were lucky to have taken his introductory chemistry course in Cornell University.Prof. Hoffmann's TV course "The World of Chemistry" is very popular.


    Nickolay A. PLATÉ

    Professor, Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

    Born in 1934, Prof. Platé graduated from the Chemistry Department of M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1956. He received Ph. D. degree in 1960 and became a professor in 1966. Prof. Platé has been a professor of the Moscow State University since 1967, in 1994 he was named as Honoured Professor of the MSU. In 1966-1985 Prof. Platé headed the Laboratory ofpolymer chemical modification of the MSU Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry.Since 1985 he has been the Director of A. V. Topchiev Institute of petrochemical synthesis of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Prof. Platé was elected as a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1974, and was promoted in 1987 having become a Full Member of the Academy.At the present time Prof. Platé is a professor of the Moscow State University, the Chief Scientific Secretary and a Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Presidium.He is also a member of the Board of Science and Technology Ministry of Russian Federation, a member of the PresidentCommittee of Goverment Awards in Science and Technology, a member of the Scientific Committee of International Security and Military Control, the Chairman of the Scientific Council of Oil, Gas and Coal chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Platé is also the Chief Editor of such journals as "Russian Journal of Macromolecular Chemistry" and "Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences"He is also a member of the editorial boards of "Mendeleyev Communications, "Die Makromolekulare Chemie", "Journal of Applied Polymer Science", "Bioactive and Compatible Polymers" and others. Prof. Platé is the president of the Russian Membran Society, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and the American Chemical Society, a Honoured Member of the Polish Chemical Society. In 1988 he was awarded by the international Prize"The Golden Century" for outstanding achievements in chemical disarmament. Among his awards are: German Mark medal for outstanding achievements in polymer chemistry in 1999 (Austrian Research Institute of chemistry and technology),V. A. Kargin Award in 1981 and S. V. Lebedev Award in 1995 (Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences),Honoured Chemist of the USSR (1984) and Russian Federation (1994), Government Award of the USSR (1985). He was also awarded several Decorations.Prof. Platé's scientific interests involve polymer liquid crystals and mesophases, polymer membranes, biological and medicinal polymers, polymer modifications, petrochemistry. He has over 500 scientific publications, 100 patents and 7 books.


    Yuri A. Zolotov

    Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

    Prof. Zolotov was born in 1932. He graduated fromthe Chemical Department of the Moscow State University in 1955.He received Ph. D. degree in 1959 and became a professor in 1966. In 1987 he was elected as a Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.Prof. Zolotov is the Head of the Analytical Chemistry Chair of the MSU Chemistry department,Head of the Laboratory in N. S. Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry. His major scientific achievements involve development of metods of separation and concentrating, especially extraction and sorbtion, hybrid methods of analysis, general methodology of analytical chemistry. At the present time Prof. Zolotov pays much attention to development of flow analysis methods as well as test-methods. He is the author of 23 books and over 600 publications. Prof. Zolotov is Laureate of Government Awards of the USSR and Russian Federation. He is a Honoured Member of the Japanese Society of Analytical Chemistry,Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Sweden. He is also the Chief editor of "Russian Journal of analytical chemistry" and a member of editorial boards of a number of international journals.


    Igor V. SVITANKO

    Vice-Chairman of the College

    Dr. Svitanko was born in 1956. He graduated fromthe Moscow State University in 1978 and received Ph. D. degree from N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic chemistry RAS in1984. His works concern reactions mechanisms in radical chemistry, organometallic synthesis,synthesis of fragrances. His current research interests mainly involve calculations of structure-properties correlation, molecular design, synthesis of compounds with directed properties. Dr. Svitanko isthe author of over 40 scientific publications. He is also the Director of scientific educational Center of Organic chemistryin N. D. Zelinsky Institute of Organic chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences