Yury Gogotsi
Honorary Doctorate from Frantsevich Institute
National Academy of Science of Ukraine
National Academy of Sciences, Kiev
Ukraine
Biography
Institute for Problems in Materials Science (IPMS) is Ukrainian leading centre of advanced scientific and engineering services, technical consulting and contract research and development in the field of Material science and advanced technology of metal, ceramic and composite materials IPMS was set up in 1955 on the base of the laboratory for special alloys of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Since then it has progressively widened its fields of application and customer base. IPMS has no analogues among academic institutions due a great variety of new developments in technological processes, materials and products on their base.. IPMS employs about 1700 people, including 70 doctors and more than 345 Ph.D., among them Members of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, professors.
Research Interest
Last position of Yury Gogotsi in Ukraine, before his Humboldt Fellowship, was at this institute. He also received his Dr. Sci. Degree in Materials Engineering from this institute. It used to be the leading materials science research center in the former Soviet Union.
