Lomonosov Moscow State University
(Московский государственный университет имени М.В.Ломоносова)
Russian Federation
Shortname: MSU
Description of the organization
Lomonosov Moscow State University is the oldest University in Russia and it dates back to 1755. Following the decision of the MSU founder, Mikhail Lomonosov, three departments were established including philosophy, law and medical departments. The lectures in chemistry were given since 1760 for students of the medical department and then for newly established in 1804 physical-mathematical department. The Chemistry department was separated from physical-mathematical department in 1930. Many world-known chemists were working in MSU including Nobel Prize winner, Professor N.N. Semenov.
The Chemistry Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University consists of 18 divisions that conduct both scientific research work and educational activities in all main branches of chemistry. Total staff of radiochemistry division is about 80 persons including researches, professors, PhD students and technicians. It has modern equipment that is used to analyze both “hot” and “cold” specimen, including HR-TEM, dynamic light scattering and dzeta-potential measurements, system for alpha- and fission track analysis, several alpha- and gamma-spectrometric systems, alpha beta liquid scintillation spectrometer, UV-Vis spectrophotometers, Mössbauer spectrometer, Nd-YAG laser system for fluorescent spectroscopy and other equipment. The educational activities at the radiochemistry division consist of general courses in radiochemistry for students of the Chemistry department and special courses in different aspects of nuclear and radiochemistry for student making their master degree works at the radiochemistry division.
Main tasks attributed / previous experience related to those tasks
The radiochemistry division has been involved for many years in research in the field of basic radiochemistry, radionuclide separation chemistry, environmental behavior of radionuclides, etc. It participated in several national and international research projects including those supported by US Department of Energy, Japan Atomic Energy Authority (Japan), Federal Agency for Science and Innovations (Russia), Helmholtz Association (Germany), IAEA, etc. In FP6 and FP7 radiochemistry division has participated in FUNMIG and RECOSY IPs. Some of the young researches from the radiochemistry division were supported by NoE ACTINET to attend different meetings and conferences. In CINCH, the most important task of MSU will be to compile the Russian curricula and mediate the Russian expertise in teaching nuclear chemistry to the EU participants.
Short profiles of the key staff members
Stepan N. Kalmykov is an associate professor at radiochemistry division of MSU. His fields of interest are environmental radiochemistry, chemical properties of actinides, speciation methods, and radionuclide separation. He has been a coordinator from MSU of several research projects including IPs FUNMIG and RECOSY. He is an author of about 50 original papers and one monograph. He is the member of scientific committees of several major research conferences in the field including “Pu futures” and “Actinides”. He is the member of the editorial board of Radiochimica Acta.
Ramiz A. Aliev is an associate professor at radiochemistry division of MSU. His fields of interest are radioanalytical methods, environmental radiochemistry, radionuclide low-level detection methods. He is an author of about 30 original papers and one monograph.