Oskar I. Koifman, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Sciences (Chemistry), Professor, President of the Ivanovo State University of Chemical Technology, 7, Sheremet’evskii pr., Ivanovo, Ivanovo oblast, 153000, Russian Federation.

Hirsch-Index 23 (Scopus, December 2022)

Scopus Author ID 6602070468

ResearcherID R-1020-2016

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1764-0819 

E-mail: president@isuct.ru

Academic Education and Career

Oskar I. Koifman graduated from the Ivanovo State University of Chemical Technology (ISUCT) in 1967. From 1968 to 1970 he was a graduate student at ISUCT. In 1970, he defended his thesis on "The influence of the structure of porphyrin molecules on their complexing ability in reactions with metal salts" in the specialties of "Inorganic Chemistry" and "Physical Chemistry". In 1983, he defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Synthesis and coordination properties of porphyrins and their complexes” in the specialties of “Inorganic Chemistry” and “Physical Chemistry”.

Since 1970, Oskar I. Koifman has worked as a Senior Researcher, an Associate Professor, and then a Professor at the Organic Chemistry Department. Since 1985, he has held the position of the Head of the Chemical Technology of Plastics and Film Materials Department (currently Department of Chemistry and Technology of High-Molecular Compounds). From 1991 until 1998, he was a Vice Rector, and since 1998, he has been a Rector at the Ivanovo State University of Chemical Technology. Since 2013, he has been the President of ISUCT.

In 2000, he became a Chief Researcher at the G.A. Krestov Institute of Solution Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 2001, he has been the Head of the "New materials based on macrocyclic compounds" laboratory at the same institute.

In 2008, Oskar I. Koifman was elected as the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Department of Chemistry of Materials Science, specializing in organic chemistry. Since 2013, he has held the position of the Chairman of the Expert Council on Organic Chemistry of the Higher Attestation Commission.

Research Interests

Oskar I. Koifman is a leading scientist in the field of physical chemistry of molecular anisotropic substances, such as quasi-two-dimensional oligocyclopyrrole macroheterocycles and quasi-one-dimensional calamite liquid crystals.

His research concerns:

– the influence of the nature of the solvent, catalyst, and other factors on the kinetic and thermodynamic laws of porphyrin formation;

– directed synthesis of meso-substituted porphyrins and tetra(heteroarene)porphyrazines with a given set of physicochemical properties;

– chemistry of liquid crystals, supramolecular thermotropic mesogens;

– physical and organic chemistry of macroheterocycles;

– physical chemistry of polycondensed and polymerized porphyrin chain polymers based on multimerization-active synthetic porphyrins, including mesh structures with continuous conjugation throughout the macromolecule;

– physical and synthetic chemistry of soluble hybrid immobilization polymers;

– physical chemistry of mesogen–non-mesogenic systems.

Oskar I. Koifman is an organizer and supervisor of the Research Institute of Macroheterocyclic Compounds of ISUCT and Scientific and Research Center “Theoretical and Experimental Chemistry”.

Oskar I. Koifman is the head of a number of programs of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Education and Science. He is also the head of grants from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and INTAS. He is the chairman or member of organizing committees of more than 70 international, All-Union, and Russian conferences as well as of the Chemical Technology Department of the A.M. Prokhorov Academy of Engineering Sciences. Oskar I. Koifman is a Member of the Presidium of the D.I. Mendeleev Russian Chemical Society and a Vice President of the Promotion of Chemical and Environmental Education research enterprise.

Oskar I. Koifman is the Editor-in-Chief of the following journals: Russian Journal of General Chemistry, Macroheterocycles, and Modern High Technologies. He is the member of the editorial boards of journals including the Russian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Liquid Crystals and their Application, Oil and Gas Chemistry, Water: Chemistry and Ecology, and Tonkie Khimicheskie Tekhnologii [Fine Chemical Technologies].

Publications and Academic Advising

Oskar I. Koifman is the author of more than 1360 scientific works, including 9 monographs, 18 chapters in monographs, 22 review articles, and 80 inventor’s certificates and patents. He is also the scientific editor of 5 monographs and 2 textbooks for universities as well as the coauthor of a textbook. Oscar I. Koifman has supervised 8 doctoral dissertations and 27 candidates of sciences.

State awards

– Honored Worker of Science of the Russian Federation (1996);

– Laureate of the RF Government Prize in the field of science and technology (2003) for the development of methods for the directed synthesis of cyclic tetrapyrrole compounds;

– Laureate of the Presidential Award in the field of education (2005) for a series of works for educational institutions of higher professional education;

– Order of Honor (2004);

– Certificate of Merit of the President of the Russian Federation for achievements in scientific and pedagogical activity and a great contribution to the training of qualified specialists (2012);

– Medal "For Merit in the Conduct of the All-Russian Population Census" (2003);

– Certificate of Honor from the Higher Attestation Commission under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation for great achievements in the certification of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel (2014);

– Winner of the 2012 and 2014 contests on the right to receive grants from the President of the Russian Federation to support leading scientific schools in the fields of “Chemistry, new materials, and chemical technologies;”

– Commemorative medal “90 years of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk province” (2008);

– Medal “For Merit to the Ivanovo Oblast” (2011).

Industry Awards

– Medals “Honorary Worker of Higher School of the Russian Federation” of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation (1997) and “Honorary Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation” (2008);

– Title “Honorary Chemist” (2005).

Public Awards

– Honorary Professor of the Kraków Polytechnic (2006);

– Honorary Title “Doctor Honoris Causa” of the Kraków Polytechnic (2011);

– Honorary Professor of the D.I. Mendeleev Russian Chemical Technical University (2012);

– Silver Medal of the 50th Anniversary of the Kraków Polytechnic (1995), Gold Medal of the 50th Anniversary of the Kraków Polytechnic (1999);

– Honorary Professor of the Technological University of Tajikistan (2009);

– Honorary Professor of the Ivanovo State Medical Academy (2010);

– Badge of Honor of the D.I. Mendeleev Russian Chemical Society (2009);

– Badge “For Merits to the ISTU” for outstanding contribution to the development of the university (2014);

– N.N. Semenov Medal for outstanding achievements in the field of engineering (2009);

– A.M. Prokhorov Medal for outstanding achievements in the field of engineering (2009);

– S.E. Frisch Medal (D.S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society) (2004);

– Medal of Count Sheremetev (2006);

– A.E. and B.A. Arbuzov Medal of the A.E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry of the Kazan Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2014);

– Medal D.I. Mendeleev "For Merits in the Field of Chemistry and Chemical Technology" (2010);