Professor Valentin N. Parmon

Valentin Parmon is the Director of the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (Novosibirsk, Russia) and holds the Chair of Physical Chemistry (Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia). His main fields of interest are in chemical kinetics and catalysis, photochemistry and radiation chemistry. He is also involved in chemical radiospectroscopy and the physical chemistry of energy production, renewable energy and the transfer of new technologies to industry. His current interests are in catalysis, energy conversion and thermodynamics.

Professor Parmon is the Chairman of the Russian Scientific Council on Catalysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the Russian representative in the European Federation of Catalytic Societies (EFCATS) and the Editor-in-Chief of the journals: Chemistry in Russia (the Russian Chemical Society), Catalysis in Industry (Russia) and Catalysis Bulletin (Russia). He is the Russian Regional Editor of the journal Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters (Elsevier), a Member of the Editorial Boards of: the Russian Chemical Journal (Russia), Chemistry for Sustainable Development (SB RAS), Catalysis Today (Elsevier), Catalysis Letters (Kluwer), Topics in Catalysis (Kluwer), Cattech (Kluwer), Catalysis Reviews: Science & Engineering (Elsevier), Reaction Intermediates (Japan), Chemistry & Technology of Water (Ukraine) and Material Research Innovations.

Professor Parmon was educated at Moscow Physical and Technical Institute.