Alexander M. Toikka, Doctor of Sciences (Chemistry), Professor, Head of the Department of Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics at the Institute of Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Hirsch-Index 21 (Scopus, December 2022)
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1863-5528
Phone: +7(812)4284052
E-mail: a.toikka@spbu.ru, toikka@yandex.ru
Address: 26, Universitetskii pr., Petergof, St. Petersburg, 198504, Russian Federation.
Academic Education and Career
Alexander M. Toikka graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University, in 1969. In 1972, he defended his candidate’s thesis titled “Questions of classification of triple liquid–vapor systems by the nature and magnitude of deviations from the ideality of binary components.” In 1996, he defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Thermodynamic analysis of equilibrium properties of heterogeneous systems based on stability theory.” Since 1999, he has held the position of the Head of the Department of Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics at the Institute of Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University. He is also the Head of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Membrane and Reaction Mass Exchanging Processes Group at the same department.
Alexander M. Toikka’s achievements:
– Member of the Presidium of the Educational and Methodological Council of the Federal Educational and Methodological Association in the field of Chemistry;
– Member of the Working Party “Fluid Separation” of the European Federation of Chemical Engineering (EFCE);
– Member of the Sub-Commission of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) on the “Solubility and related equilibrium data;”
– Member of the D.I. Mendeleev Russian Chemical Society (Deputy Chairman of the Section of Physical and Colloid Chemistry);
– Member of the Section on the Chemical Thermodynamics and Thermochemistry of the Council on Physical Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
– Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA-2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018);
– Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference “Distillation and Absorption” (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018);
– Member of the Committee of the International Symposium on the Solubility Phenomena and Related Equilibrium Processes (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2020);
– Member of the Organizing Committee of International Conferences on Chemical Thermodynamics in Russia (2005, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019);
– Member of the Editorial Board of Tonkie Khimicheskie Tekhnologii [Fine Chemical Technologies];
– Guest Editor of the journal Polymers (Q1, IF 2018 3.164), Special Issue Polymeric Membrane Materials for Separation Liquid and Gas Mixtures;
– Associate Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of Chemical Engineering Journal (Q1, IF 2018 8.355) (2000–2003).
Research Interests
– General, non-equilibrium, and chemical thermodynamics;
– Mixed reaction–mass transfer processes and chemical kinetics in heterogenous systems;
– Evolution of thermodynamic properties during combined processes;
– Use of non-equilibrium thermodynamics in theoretical chemical technology, investigation of the stability of multicomponent systems, phase separation, membrane separation, and reaction mass exchanging processes;
– Thermodynamic properties of natural gas and gas mixtures, also for industrial purposes;
– Experimental research on phase transitions, sorption, and thermal effects;
– Theory of thermodynamic stability, its development and use for analysis and modeling of chemical and phase processes in equilibrium and non-equilibrium systems;
– Membrane processes as well as experimental research and modeling of transmembrane transfer based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics;
– Natural biological membranes;
– Introduction of modifiers in polymer matrices. Use of scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and X-Ray spectroscopy for structural analysis. Thermochemistry studies and evaluation of thermodynamic properties;
– Conducting phase and membrane separation, including combined processes, such as distillation and extraction. Synthesis in a membrane reactor;
– New important membrane materials for pervaporation and gas separation.
Publications and Academic Advising
Alexander M. Toikka authored and co-authored more than 170 publications, including 112 research articles, 39 conference theses, 9 papers in conference materials, 3 papers in research digests, and 7 other publications.
A.M. Toikka supervised 11 candidate theses and 1 doctoral dissertation.
Grants of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) for the last five years (supervisory role):
– Heat effects and thermochemical features of reaction–mass-transfer processes, RFBR, 15-03-02131, 2015–2017;
– Determining Thermodynamic Properties of Natural Gas Based on 3 Simple Measurable Values 17-58-560018, RFBR and Iran National Science Foundation, 2017–2019;
– Application of non-equilibrium thermodynamics methods for the solution of theoretical problems of chemical engineering: stability of multicomponent systems, phase and membrane separation, reaction and mass transfer processes, 19-03-00375, 2019–2021.
Grants of the Russian Science Foundation (supervisory role):
– Polymer membranes based on polyheteroarylenes for the separation liquid and gas mixtures, 2016–2020.
Awards
A.M. Toikka is the Honored Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation.
