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Your name (e.g. Mikhail Ivanov)

Recommendations for the preparing the application:1. Insert your name in the file name (e.g. “Mikhail Ivanov application.doc”)2. Use the same fonts as in the template (Times New Roman, 12 pt, bold for

titles, normal for the rest of the proposal 3. Use the same paragraph formatting as in the template: single space, 6 pt

before paragraph4. Do not change the headers (колонтитулы)5. Remove the comments and recommendations for applicant before submitting

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1 Application

In this part of the application you express your intention to participate in the Topsøe PhD Scholarship programme and briefly introduce yourself (Your name, Institution, Scientific adviser, theme of your PhD study).

It would be helpful if you formulate the reasons of you decision to participate in the Program, and why do you think that your study will meet the scope of Haldor Topsoe field of interest.

Yours Sincerely Mikhail Ivanov

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2 Table of applicant data

In this section you provide the general information about yourself, your institution, scientific adviser and PhD department manager

The name and last name Mikhail A. IvanovPhonesoffice +74445556781mobile +74445556782

E-mail MIvanov@catalchemistry.ruMikhailIvanov@mail.ru

The institution  name and address

Sergeev Institute of Catalytic Chemistry444670, pr. Kolesnikova 5, Lesnoi, Russia,

The name and last name of the PhD Department manager

Tatiana K. Ivanova

The office phoneE-mail

+7444555678912345@mail.ru

The name and last name, degree of the scientific adviser Alexei V. Petrov

The office phonee-mail

+73833304982petrov@catalchemistry.ru

The dates of the PhD study start and termination 02.10.2020–01.10.2023

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1 Summary of the PhD work

Please note, that the Summary of your PhD should not exceed 3 pages.

PhD-student’s name: Mikhail A. IvanovThe thesis title: Example: Development of Pd–Cu catalyst for selective hydrogenation

of acetylenic compounds

The Institution name: Institute of Catalytic Chemistry RAS

The thesis content

In this section you explain the importance of your study for practice and fundamental science, what is the specific goal of the study.

We recommend you (but not necessarily) to follow the next outline:

Explain the general topic of your study;

Indicate the specific goal of your study within the framework of the general topic;

Explain how you are going to achieve this goal.

For explaining this, briefly describe the main stages of your PhD study, which you are going to accomplish during your PhD course.

The investigation purpose

In this section you shall shortly (by 2-3 sentences) and clearly formulate the goal of your study and the method, which will be developed for achieving this goal.

Scientific novelty

It is necessary to explain what is new in the method that you are developing for achieving the goal of your study. For example, scientific novelty may include the development of a new preparation procedure, or new catalyst composition, or application of the known procedure to nontraditional field, etc.

Results

This section is mostly for PhD-students of the second and third years. However, if you are the PhD student of the first year, and you have already obtained some preliminary results (e.g during you diploma study), which support efficiency of the approach that you intend to develop during your PhD study, it is very helpful to give a short description of these results with relevant figures and/or tables (if necessary).

Since the most important criterion for evaluation of your proposal by international jury committee is the scientific novelty of your method (approach), it is recommended to focus these part of your application on analysis of both positive and negative results, which confirm or contradict your initial idea (pro- and contra- analysis). Such analysis would provide a solid basis for the development of the detailed one-year plan for further research (see the next section of the application).

It is helpful to provide appropriate citation of your publications or publications of other research groups relevant to the pro- and contra- analysis. The example is given below [1,2].

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We recommend using the following procedure for insertion the Figures in the proposal:

(1) Convert your figures into PDF file by PDF Creator or other program

(2) Use the Camera Tool of Adobe Reader to copy your figure,

(3) Paste the figure into the word document as Enhanced Metafile Windows (EMF) using Paste special… (Or Специальная вставка…).

REFERNCES:

1. Spee, M.P.R., Boersma, J., Meijer, M.D., Slagt, M.Q., van Koten, G., and Geus, J.W., J. Org. Chem., 2001, vol. 66, p. 1647.

2. M.A. Ivanov, V. I. Sidorov, A.V. Petrov, Characterization and catalytic performance of Pd-Ni bimetallic catalyst. Kinet. Catal., 54 (2014) 888.

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4 Detailed study plan for one year

PhD-student’s name: Mikhail A. IvanovThe thesis title: Example: Development of Pd–Cu catalyst for selective hydrogenation

of acetylenic compounds

The Institution name: Institute of Catalytic Chemistry RAS

PlanIn this part of the application you provide detailed description on what you are going to do

during the next year. As in the previous sections, the plan should be focused on the development of the method (approach) you are working on.

This plan will be evaluated by international jury committee according to its relevance to the main goal of your study. By the plan you demonstrate your understanding the situation with the PhD work and your ideas on further investigations. Therefore, we recommend you not to make it too general (e.g. (1) Literature search; (2) Experimental work), but indicate specific targets helping to achieve this main goal of your research.

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5 Complete list of publications (Including patents, conferences, awards)

This section present all your papers (not limited by your PhD theme) published by the moment of submitting this application (font style: Times New Roman 12pt)

Publications

1. V. I. Sidorov, A.V. Petrov, M.A. Ivanov, Combining different catalytic functions in the single catalytic composition. Appl. Catal., 24 (2014) 313.

2. V. I. Sidorov, A. V. Petrov, M.A. Ivanov, Aqueous-phase reforming of xylitol over Pd-Cu: characterization and catalytic performance. Catal. Sci. Technol., 44 (2014) 555.

3. M.A. Ivanov, V. I. Sidorov, A.V. Petrov, Characterization and catalytic performance of Pd-Ni bimetallic catalyst. Kinet. Catal., 54 (2014) 888.

Patents

4. V. I. Sidorov, A.V. Petrov, M.A. Ivanov, New catalyst for heavy oil processing. RF Patent 5557827, published 20.05.2014.

5. M.A. Ivanov, V. I. Sidorov, A.V. Petrov, A method for improving stability of Pd catalyst. RF Patent 5555327 C1, application 21.03.2012, published 12.27.2013.

Conferences

6. M.A. Ivanov, V. I. Sidorov, D.A. Petrov, Selectivity improvement in semihydrogenation of substituted acetylenes // 7th Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT7), June 1-6, 2014, Kyoto, Japan, PP345.

7. V. I. Sidorov, D.A. Petrov, M.A. Ivanov, Pd-supported bimetallic compositions for stereoselective liquid phase semi-hydrogenation // Molecular Complexity in Modern Chemistry (MCMC-2014), (September 13-19, 2014, Moscow), OC10, book of abstracts, p. 76

8. M.A. Ivanov, V. I. Sidorov, D.A. Petrov. Ivanova, Stereoselective semihydrogenation of phenylacetylene over supported heterogeneous Pd catalysts: effect of the support and the second metal // UK-Russia Frontiers of Science Symposium, March 12-14 2013, Kazan, Russia, book of abstracts, P-19.

Awards

1. The third Young Scientist Award, 30th International Scientific Student Conference, Moscow, 2012

2. The second prize for the best poster presentation on 5th International Symposium Micro- and Macro- Complexity in Heterogeneous Catalysis, Novosibirsk, 2013.

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6 Supervisor recommendation

In this section you provide your supervisor recommendation (scanned copy). To insert the scanned recommendation, you can use the same method as for inserting Figures (see p. 5)

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7 Official Certificate from PhD Department

Here you place the scanned copy of your PhD Certificate in Russian (справка из отдела аспирантуры)

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