MY CAREER PATHS

VLADIMIR DEMIDYUK

The University of Manchester

Moscow State University

Established

in 1755

Moscow State University - History

The oldest Russian institution of higher education, Moscow University was established in 1755. In 1940 it was named after Academician Mikhail Lomonosov (1711 - 1765), an outstanding Russian scientist, who greatly contributed to the establishment of the university in Moscow.

Moscow State University. 1755

3 departments: Department of Philology Department of Medicine Department of Law

Less than 100 students

Moscow State University. 1798

500 students

Moscow State University. 1953

29 departments, 15 research institutes. 40,000 students.

Moscow State University

Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics Faculty of Physics Faculty of Chemistry Faculty of Biology Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Faculty of Soil Science Faculty of Geology Faculty of Geography Faculty of Materials Science Faculty of Fundamental Medicine Faculty of World Politics

Faculty of History Faculty of Philology Faculty of Philosophy Faculty of Economics Higher School of Business Administration Faculty of Law Faculty of Journalism Faculty of Psychology The Institute of Asian and African Studies Faculty of Sociology Faculty of Foreign Languages Faculty of Public Administration Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts

Moscow State University

Nobel Prize Winners

Nikolay Semenov - Chemistry, 1956 Igor Tamm – Physics, 1958 Il’ya Frank - Physics, 1958 Boris Pasternak – Literature, 1958 Lev Landau – Physics, 1962 Andrey Sakharov - Peace Prize, 1975 Petr Kapitza – Physics, 1978 Mikhail Gorbachev - Peace Prize, 1990 Vitaliy Ginzburg - Physics, 2003 Alexey Abrikosov - Physics, 2003

Moscow State University

My career paths at Moscow University were:

09/1981- 06/1986 Student. 11/1986 - 12/1989 Post-graduate Student. 01/1990 - 09/1994. Research Fellow. 09/1994 - 09/1999. Assistant Professor. 09/1999 - 01/2000. Associate Professor.

INHA University, Korea

Established

in 1954

INHA University

College of EngineeringCollege of Natural ScienceCollege of Economics & TradeCollege of Business AdministrationCollege of EducationCollege of LawCollege of Social SciencesCollege of HumanitiesCollege of Human EcologyCollege of Medicine18,000 students

10 Departments

Funding in Korea

Funding for Applied Research

Funding in Korea

Funding in Korea

Funding in Korea

(1-2 years)

INHA University

Department of

Mechanical Engineering 2000-2005

Research fields:

heterogeneous catalysis

application of plasma and photocatalysis to environmental pollution control.

Research. Air cleaning.

Plasma-Catalyst Hybrid system  was created and investigated in air cleaning process.

It was found that plasma treatment could be successfully applied for indoor air cleaning.

Air cleaning

Air cleaning

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Toluene decompositionAmmonia decomposition

Air cleaning

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Air cleaning

Negative ions formation in Plasma System

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Air cleaning

Air cleaning

SUDO Premium Engineering Co., Ltd

KOREA

Air cleaning. Prototype

Air cleaning. Portable models

Air cleaning. Duct type

Air cleaning. Application

Air cleaning. Application

Air cleaning. Application

Air cleaning. Application

Air cleaning. Application

Marie Curie Fellowship

What is a mechanism of plasma-catalytic decomposition?

What is a synergy effect in plasma-catalytic treatment?

How to improve the efficiency of plasma system?

How to eliminate the disadvantages of plasma treatment (formation of by-products)?

Marie Curie Fellowship

INCOMING INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS

Prof. Whitehead The University of Manchester. October 2005

Conclusion

“The main important thing now is a practical application of the fundamental studies…”

Nikolay Semenov

Nobel Prize Winner, 1956