Boreskov Institute of Catalysis was founded in 1958 as a part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The founder and the first Director of the Institute till 1984 was academician Georgii Konstantinovich Boreskov.
One of the main activity areas of the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis is fundamental investigations in catalytic science to discover new principles of chemical reactions and to create innovative catalytic compositions and technologies.
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Boreskov Institute of Catalysis pays great attention to the training of young scientists. Each year more than 100 students and post-graduates are being trained at its research and educational facilities. The Institute collaborates with many educational organizations, including:
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For more than half a century, the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis is at a cutting edge of innovative R&D for chemical and petrochemical industries, energy power, environmental protection.
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10 October 2017
In recent years the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science National Fellowships were given to the BIC researchers PhD Ekaterina Kozlova (2011), PhD Nataliya Maksimchuk (2013), PhD Olga Bulavchenko (2015), and PhD Olga Zalomaeva (2016).
The L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science National program is carried out in Russia since 2007 with participation of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Nqational Commission for UNESCO, UNESCO Moscow Office, and is a part of the international project L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science. The nominees of the annual national fellowship are the female scientists no older than 35, with a degree of candidate or doctor of science, working in the Russian scientific institutions and universities in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, or biology. The selection criteria for the fellowship are the research achievements, importance and practical use of their studies and the will to continue pursuing the scientific career in Russia.
The winners will be given their awards during a special ceremony to be held in Moscow on December 4, 2017.
The main scientific interest of Lidiya Kibis lies in the field of the fundamental research of heterogeneous catalysis: the study of the properties of catalysts based on noble metals as well as the mechanisms of their catalytic activity. The results of these basic research can be used further in the tailored synthesis of highly active and stable catalysts as well as for analysis of the possible cost reduction of the catalysts due to the substitution of the expensive active components with cheaper analogues.
“I am very pleased that my work received this support, even though it is dedicated most of all to the basic research, - says Lidiya. – Today more and more attention is paid to the applied tasks and developments. Nevertheless, the further development of technologies is impossible without conducting the fundamental studies, highly demanded by the catalytic community, which is confirmed by the high citation index of such works. It is not the first time when the young females from BIC win this fellowship, I am very happy that I was able to continue this “tradition”.
Lidiya graduated from Novosibirsk State University, Department of Natural Sciences, specializing in chemistry. She works in BIC since 2005 and in 2011 she successfully defended her PhD theses named “Photoelectron Spectroscopy study of the metal and oxidized nanoparticles of silver and palladium”. Lidiya has co-authored more than 50 works, including more than 30 papers in the highly ranked Russian and world journals.
