Education

1981-	graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University
1986-	Ph. D. degree (Title of the thesis " Double and Ternary Barium-based Oxides with Rare Earth Elements and Aluminum")
1997-	Doctor of Science degree (Title of the thesis "Search for New Superconducting Materials)

Professional experience:

Scientific Activity:

• Solid State Chemistry, Crystal Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds, X-ray diffraction, search for inorganic materials with different physical properties

• invited to deliver lectures at different International Conferences: XVI and XVII International Congresses on Crystallography (Beijing and Seattle); M2S-HTSC IV and V (Grenoble and Beijing), Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Chemistry (Irsee, Germany), Annual ACA Meeting (Washington), MRS-99 Fall Meeting (Boston), International Conference on Neutron Scattering (Toronto), Inernational worshop on Fundamental Aspects on Superconductivity (Ravello, Italy), 9th International Symposium on Superconductivity (Sapporo) etc.

Honours, Awards, Membership of Professional Societies :

• In 1994 was awarded by the First Lomonosov Award of the Moscow State University and by the World Congress On Superconductivity (Orlando, USA) (togeather with Dr. S.N. Putilin).
• in 1994 and 1997 was awarded by the First Prize of the Russian Scientific Council on High-Tc Superconductivity (togeather with Dr. S.N. Putilin).
• The member of the National Committee of the Russian Crystallographic Association
• The Regional CoChair and Consulting Editor of the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD).
• In 2004 was awarded by the Russian State Award (together with colleagues) for the work in the field of High Temperature Superconductivity.

Education

1980-	graduated from the Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University
1994-	Ph. D. degree (Title of the thesis " New Hg-bearing high temperature superconductors")

Professional experience:

Scientific Activity:

Solid State Chemistry, Crystal Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds. Search for New Superconductors, X-ray diffraction

Honours, Awards

• in 1994 was awarded by the First Lomonosov Award of the Moscow State University and by the World Congress On Superconductivity (Orlando, USA) (togeather with Prof. E.V. Antipov)
• in 1994 and 1997 was awarded by the First Prize of the Russian Scientific Council on High-Tc Superconductivity (togeather with Prof. E.V. Antipov)

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Education

1987-	graduated from Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University
1994-	Ph. D. degree (Title of the thesis "Homologous Series of the Uranium, Molybdenum and Tungsten Complex Oxides")

Professional experience:

Scientific Activity:

Synthesis and Crystal Chemistry of Complex Oxides and Sulfides of Transition Metals in a Mixed Valence State.

Teaching activity:

• lecture courses (from 1995): Advanced Inorganic Chemistry.

• talks at International Conferences: II Swedish-Russian Conference on Mixed-Valency Metal Oxides (Ljustero, 1994); IV International Workshop on chemistry and technology of high temperature superconductors (Moscow, 1995); III Swedish-Russian Conference: Mixed-Valence Metal Oxides (Suzdal, 1996)

Honors, Awards and Fellowships:

Roman V. Shpanchenko
April 29, 1963

Education

1985-	graduated from Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University
1991-	Ph.D. degree (Title of the thesis " Double and Ternary Barium-based Oxides with perovskite-like structures")

Professional experience:

Scientific Activity:

Synthesis and Crystal Chemistry of complex perovskite-like oxides with anion or cation vacancies, intergrowth structures. Use of powder and single-crystal diffraction technique for structural refinement and ab-initio determination.

Complex Vanadium oxides in low oxidation states

Teaching activity:

"The Practical Use of X-ray Powder Diffraction in Inorganic Chemistry" - lecture and practical courses (togeather with A.V. Mironov)

Marina G. Rozova
May 13, 1961

Education

1983-	graduated from Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University
1989-	Ph. D. degree (Title of the thesis "Complex oxides of Ba, In, Ga and rare-earth elements")

Professional experience:

Scientific Activity:

Structural chemistry of inorganic compounds, X-ray diffraction , Superconducting and magnetic oxides and oxyfluorides

Teaching activity:

from 1996 - teaching (seminars, laboratory work) of the course of Inorganic Chemistry for the 1st year students at the Department of Chemistry of Moscow State University.

Andrey V. Mironov
August 21, 1956

Education

1978-

graduated from Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University

Professional experience:

Scientific Activity:

Structural studies of complex oxides; 4-dimensional crystallography

Teaching activity:

Lecture course in Application of diffraction methods for structure analysis for Ph.D. students at the Department of Chemistry of Moscow State University (togeather with Dr. A.M. Abakumov)>

Artem M. Abakumov
June 30, 1969

Education

1993-	graduated from Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University
1997-	Ph. D. degree (Title of the thesis "Hexagonal perovskites with anion and cation vacancies")
1995 (3 months), 1997-1998 (1 year), 1999 (3 months)-	graduated at the laboratory of electron microscopy for material research (EMAT), University of Antwerp, RUCA

Professional experience:

Scientific Activity:

Structural chemistry of inorganic compounds,X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy for structure determination, Superconducting and magnetic oxides and oxyfluorides

Teaching activity:

from 1999 - teaching (seminars, laboratory work) of the course of Inorganic Chemistry for the 1st year students at the Department of Chemistry of Moscow State University.

Lecture course in Application of diffraction methods for structure analysis for Ph.D. students at the Department of Chemistry of Moscow State University (togeather with Dr. A.V. Mironov).

Honours, Awards:

• 1994-1995 and 1995-1996 - the fellowships of the International Soros Science and Educational Program (ISSEP) ("Soros Graduate Student")
• 1998 - Struchkov prize of the X-ray diffraction centre for structure investigations (Russian Academy of Science).

Sergey Ya. Istomin
April 18, 1971

Education

1993-	graduated from Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University
1997-	Ph. D. degree (Title of the thesis "Complex niobium oxides with niobium in a mixed valence")

Professional experience:

Scientific Activity:

Synthesis and crystal structure of complex niobium and tantalum oxides with a transition metal in mixed oxidation state; complex sulfides of niobium and tantalum; synthesis and characterization of transition metal nitride chlorides.

Teaching activity:

in 1994-1995 and from 1996 - teaching (seminars, laboratory work) of the course of Inorganic Chemistry for the 1st year students at the Department of Chemistry of Moscow State University.

Honours, Awards:

• 1994-1995 and 1995-1996 - the fellowships of the International Soros Science and Educational Program (ISSEP) ("Soros Graduate Student")
• 1998-1999 - awarded the stipendium of Max-Planck Society and worked in the group of Prof. A. Simon in Max-Planck Institute fuer Festkoerperforschung (Stuttgart, Germany).

Velikodny Yu.A.

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Nellie R. Khasanova

Education

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Sergey M. Kazakov
January 31, 1972

Education

1994-	graduated from Department of Chemistry, Moscow State University
1998-	Ph. D. degree (Title of the thesis "Search for New Superconductors in the Sr-K-Bi-O System")

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