Permanent position:
Principal Researcher
Boreskov Institute of Catalysis
Russian Academy of Sciences
Novosibirsk 630090, Russia

Work at Chalmers: My first two-month visit of Chalmers was organized in the end of 1989. Since then, I spend a few months at Chalmers almost every year.

Fellowships, etc.:
(i) Senior Visiting Fellowship (1994,1999), University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
(ii) Waernska Guest Professorship (1997), Goteborg University.
(iii) Chalmers Anniversary Guest Professorship (2003),Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg.
(iv) Guest Profesorship (2004), Hokkaido University, Sapporo.
(v) Membership in the Advisory Editorial Board of Surface Science (1998-2002).

Scientific interests:
(i) Surface science (theory of elementary rate processes on solid surfaces)
(ii) Heterogeneous catalysis (complex behaviour of catalytic reactions including oscillations, chaos and pattern formation; structure- and pressure-gap problems)
(iii) Biophysics (kinetics of protein folding, refolding, and adsorption; kinetics of cellular reactions)

Methods used in research: Mean-field kinetic equations and Monte-Carlo simulations

Current projects:
(i) Kinetics processes on/in nanoparticles
(ii) Kinetics processes on vesicles.

Key references:
(i) V.P. Zhdanov, Elementary physicochemical processes on solid surfaces (Plenum, New York, 1991, 320 pp.).
(ii) V.P. Zhdanov, Arrhenius parameters for rate processes on solid surfaces. Surf. Sci. Rep. 12 (1991) 183-241.
(iii) V.P. Zhdanov and B. Kasemo, Kinetic phase transitions in simple reactions on solid surfaces. Surf. Sci. Rep. 20 (1994) 111-189.
(iv) V.P. Zhdanov and B. Kasemo, Monte Carlo simulations of the kinetics of protein adsorption. Surf. Rev. Lett. 5 (1998) 615-634.
(v) V.P. Zhdanov and B. Kasemo, Simulations of the reaction kinetics on nanometer supported catalyst particles. Surf. Sci. Rep. 39 (2000) 25-104.
(vi) V.P. Zhdanov, Monte Carlo simulations of oscillations, chaos and pattern formation in heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Surf. Sci. Rep. 45 (2002) 231-326.