Biography
Dr. Eugene V. Sivtsov
Dr. Eugene V. Sivtsov
St. Petersburg State Technological Institute (Technical University), Russia
Biography: 
1997, Graduated from the St. Petersburg State Technological Institute (Technical University), speciality "Chemical Technology of Macromolecular Compounds". 2000, PhD in polymer chemistry, thesis "Copolymerization of N-vinyl succinimide with butyl acrylate in electron-donor and electron-withdrawing solvents". 2000, Assistant at the Department of Chemical Technology of Plastics. 2003-2014, Personal grants of Novbytkhim Limited. 2004, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Technology of Plastics. 2011, Winner of the 2011 Prize of the International Academic Publishing Company "Nauka / Interperiodica" for the best publication in its journals. 2012, Doctor of Sciences (the highest level of PhD in Russia), Thesis "Synthesis of compositionally homogeneous copolymers in the processes of classical and controlled radical polymerization". 2014, Professor, Head of the Colloid Chemistry Department, St. Petersburg State Technological Institute (Technical University). Leading Researcher, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia. The results of studies published in the peer-reviewed journals "Polymer Science", "Macromolecular Symposia", "Russian Journal of Applied Chemistry", "Plastics", more than 250 articles and conference abstracts have been published. Research interests: controlled radical polymerization; RAFT polymerization; kinetics and mechanism of conventional and controlled radical polymerization; synthesis and properties of polymer surfactants; the role of the reaction medium nature in the processes of radical homo- and copolymerization; rheology of dispersions; thermal analysis in the identification of chinese lacquers of the Qin and Han dynasties.