Grigori M. Sigalov
Curriculum Vitae
Biographical Sketch
I was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation, USSR, on July 21, 1967. I lived there
until 1984 except 1975-1981 when my family lived in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, a town 150 km
to the north from Rostov. My father have been a factory worker and later a manager,
and my mother has been an economist. I have also an older brother who is
a university lecturer in philosophy.
In 1984, I have graduated with gold medal (highest possible rank in Russia's
secondary schools) from the school no. 5 of Rostov-on-Don. The same summer I entered the
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics.
After 3 years of general courses in pure and applied mathematics, general
and theoretical physics, general and physical chemistry, I began to
specialize in polymer science. The main subjects I studied during last
3 years of the university course were polymer physics (lectures were
given by Prof. Edouard F. Oleinik),
polymer chemistry (Prof. Konstantin S. Kazansky),
polymer mechanics (Prof. Leonid I. Manevitch),
polymer technology (Prof. Boris A. Rozenberg),
composites materials (Prof. Aleksander A. Berlin),
burning of polymers (Prof. Nikolay A. Khalturinsky),
methods of investigation of polymers (Prof. Leonid N. Grigorov).
I graduated with M.S. diploma with distinction (summa cum lauda) in 1990.
After having completed my MS course, I entered the Ph.D. course of MIPT.
My research was connected
with theoretical investigation of the Ising model which is a very important and
fruitful model of disordered (non-crystalline) solids, in particular polymers.
I succeeded in developing a new probabilistic (Markovian) approach to the description of
the statics and dymanics of the Ising model. It was the topic of my Ph.D.
thesis which was defended in November 1993.
After the thesis defence I joined the N.N.Semenov Institute of
Chemical Physics (Moscow), laboratory of
Prof. L.I.Manevitch as a researcher. Soon I moved to the
Institute for Chemical Physics Research (former Institute of Chemical
Physics in Chernogolovka) (Moscow region), laboratory of
Prof. B.A.Rozenberg. Nowadays, I'm working here
on a permanent position of senior researcher, deputy head of laboratory. My research
is concerned with the phase separation
in multicomponent polymer/oligomer systems induced by cure reactions.
In May 1996 - May 1997 I stayed with the Tokyo Institute of Technology, laboratory of
Prof. Takashi Inoue, as a visiting researcher.
I was married in September 1994 and have a son born in June 1996 in Japan.
My main hobbies are caving, photography, and coins collecting. I'm also fond of
foreign languages. I can speak well enough English, French, Ukrainian, and I can
read/write to a certain extent in Japanese, German, Bielorussian, Bulgarian, Polish,
and Esperanto.
Objective: Basic research and teaching oriented career in
- Polymer Physics and Mechanics
- Polymer Chemistry
- Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
- Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics
- Theory of Disordered Matter
- Nonlinear Dynamics
Research interests
- Digital Image Analysis methods for characterization of the stucture of
mutliphase polymer blends. Processing conditions-morphology and material
morphology-properties correlations.
- Kinetics of the phase decomposition and structure formation in polymer
blends, in particular the theory of the cure-reaction induced microphase
separation: nucleation-and-growth and spinodal decomposition mechanisms.
- Nonlinear dynamics and structural transformations in glass-like/Ising-like
classical systems.
- Thermal and kinetic properties of glass-like classical systems of
particles (in particular, Reichert-Schilling model) reducible to Ising
model.
Major accomplishments
- A new DIA (digital image analysis) oriented
method for the polymer blend morphology analysis was developed. The
particles seen on SEM and TEM (scanning/transmission electron microscopy)
pictures of the two-phase blends are considered as ellipses rather than circles,
so that their asphericity and orientation may be dealt with.
- A new theory of cure reaction-induced microphase separation (CRIMPS)
was developed. Models for nonequilibrium nucleation and growth of dispersed
phase particles were proposed, and the particle size distribution for the final
heterophase polymer material was analyzed.
- Analysis of kinetics of phase separation in a curing multicomponent
system was performed. Expressions describing the phase separation trajectory
were derived, and the first quantitative criterion which characterizes the
extent of its deflection from the equilibrium was found.
- New probabilistic approach to the description of conformationally
disordered polymer chain was developed. The new method allows to take into
account the long-range intramolecular interaction. For the chains with finite
interaction range a finite system of kinetic equations was derived exactly.
Computer skills
- Programming in Turbo C: a number of scientific and general DOS and Windows
applications have been developed;
- Basic knowledge of C++, Fortran, and Pascal programming languages;
- HTML programming, WWW site support.
Career Record
Education
- November 1993
- Ph.D. in Polymer Physics and Mechanics. Thesis: "Description of
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Polymer Chains on the Basis of Ising-like
Models", defended in Moscow
Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow, Russia. Supervising Professor
Leonid I. Manevitch.
- June 1990
- M.S. in Applied Physics and Mathematics (majoring in polymer science).
Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and
Technology, Moscow, Russia. Supervising Professor Leonid I. Manevitch.
Research
- February 1998 - current time
- Deputy head of Laboratory of physical chemistry of polymer matrices
(Prof. Boris A. Rozenberg lab),
Dept. of Polymers and Composite Materials,
Institute for Chemical Physics Research
(former Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka),
Russian Academy of
Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia.
- April 1994 - current time
- Senior researcher (before Dec'95 - researcher),
Prof. Boris A. Rozenberg lab,
Dept. of Polymers and Composite Materials,
Institute of Chemical Physics in
Chernogolovka, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow region, Russia.
- May 1996 - May 1997
- Post-doctoral visiting researcher, Prof.
Takashi Inoue and
Toshiaki Ougizawa
laboratory, Dept. of Organic and Polymeric Materials,
Tokyo Institute of
Technology, Tokyo, Japan.
- November 1993 - March 1994
- Researcher, Prof. Leonid I.
Manevitch lab, Polymer Department,
N.N.Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow,
Russia.
- August 1990 - October 1993
- Ph.D. student, Prof. Leonid
I. Manevitch lab, Polymer Department,
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics,
Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia.
- September 1987 - June 1990
- M.S. student, Prof. Leonid
I. Manevitch lab, Polymer Department,
Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics,
Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow, Russia.
Teaching
- February 1998 - current time
- Polymer Science Laboratory, Chemistry Department,
M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
- 1991
- Lectures in Physics of Disordered State, Department of Molecular and Chemical
Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,
Moscow, Russia.
Other employments
- 1995 - current time
- Translator (Russian into English),
MAIK (IAPS) Nauka/Interperiodica Publishing
(Russian Journal of Coordination Chemistry, Polymer Science).
Awards
State Scientific Scholarship for Gifted Young Scientists of Russia
has been awarded by Presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences three times:
in 1995, 1996, and 1998. (As many as ca. 80 scholarships in the field
of chemistry have been awarded every year).
Conferences
During 1995-98, I have presented 11 papers (6 oral and 5 poster presentations) at 9
international conferences, among them:
- 8th International Symposium on Solubility Phenomena,
August 4-8, 1998, Niigata, Japan;
- Polymer Networks'98,
14th IUPAC Polymer Networks Group Conference,
28 June - 3 July 1998, Trodheim, Norway;
- Conference of the Society of Plastics Engineers ANTEC'98,
April 26-30, 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA;
- Problems of Condensed Matter Theory: The International
Conference Dedicated to the 80th Anniversary of Prof. Ilya M. Lifshitz,
June 1-4, 1997, Moscow, Russia;
- Polymer Networks'96,
13th IUPAC Polymer Networks Group Conference,
September 2-6, 1996, Doorn, The Netherlands;
- Macro96, 36th IUPAC International Symposium on Macromolecules,
August 4-9, 1996, Seoul, Korea;
- Spring Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Division of
Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering,
1996, New Orleans, Louisiana;
- 9th Rolduc Polymer Meeting Smart Polymer Materials and
Products,
May 8-11, 1995, Rolduc Abbey, Kerkrade, The Netherlands.
List of selected publications
(journal and refereed conference papers)
1998
- B.A.Rozenberg and G.M.Sigalov, in:
Chemical and Physical Networks: Formation and Control of Properties,
The Wiley Polymer Networks Group Review, Ed. by W.J.Mijs and K. te Nijnhuis,
1998. Vol. 1, pp. 209-217.
Network Formation Accompanied by Microphase Separation.
- G.M.Sigalov and B.A.Rozenberg, Proceedings of Conference of the Society of
Plastics Engineers ANTEC'98, April 26-30, 1998, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Vol 3, pp. 3136-40.
Model of Heterophase Polymer Formation from Reacting Blends at Phase
Decomposition Induced by Thermosets Cure.
- G.M.Sigalov and B.A.Rozenberg, Polym. Sci., Ser. A 40, no. 9,
1998.
A Model of Heterophase Polymer Formation during Cure.
1997
- Grigori M. Sigalov, Joel Ibuki, Tsuneo Chiba, and Takashi Inoue,
Macromolecules 30 (25) 7759-7767, 1997.
Method of Effective Ellipses for Digital Image Analysis
of Size, Shape, Orientation, and Interparticle Distances
in Polymer Blends: Application to a Study of Polyamide
6/Polysulfone Reactive Blending.
1996
- B.A.Rozenberg and G.M.Sigalov, Polymers for Advanced
Technologies 7 (5-6) 356-364, 1996.
Morphology Control at Phase Separation of Curing Multicomponent
Thermosets.
- B.A.Rozenberg, G.M.Sigalov, and O.V.Nikitin, Proc. ACS Division
of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, v.74,
pp. 125-128, 1996.
Phase Formation during Multicomponent Thermosets Cure.
- B.A.Rozenberg and G.M.Sigalov, Macromol. Symp., v.102,
pp. 329-336, 1996.
Role of the Cure Kinetics in Morphology Control at Phase
Separation of Curing Multicomponent Thermosets and a Criterion of
Equilibrium.
- L.I.Manevitch and G.M.Sigalov, Phys. Let. A 210 (6)
423-428, 1996.
Solitonic Mechanism of Structural Transformations in a
Non-Degenerate Chain of Particles with Anharmonic and Competing
Interactions.
1995
- B.A.Rozenberg and G.M.Sigalov, Polym. Sci., Ser. A 37
(10) 1049-1052, 1995.
An Improved Model of Phase Separation in Reacting Systems.
1992
- L.I.Manevitch and G.M.Sigalov, Sov. Phys. Solid State
34 (2) 210-214, 1992.
Structural Transitions in a One-Dimensional Model of Glasses.