Curriculum Vitae
Siarhei Zhdanok was born in Minsk, Belarus on January 20, 1953. In 1976, he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Since 1979 – Engineer, Senior Engineer, Junior, Senior Researcher, since 1983 – Head of Laboratory, Head of Department in the Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer Named After A.V. Lykov of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. In 2002–2004 – Chief Scientific Secretary of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Since 2004 – Academician-Secretary of the Department of Physical and Technical Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. At the same time, in 2005–2009 – Director of the Institute of Heat and Mass Transfer Named After A.V. Lykov of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

Scientific works in the field of physics and chemistry of nonequilibrium processes and their technical applications. Siarhei Zhdanok laid the theoretical foundations of nonlinear oscillatory kinetics and developed technological processes based on the use of nonequilibrium properties of gases and plasma. In 1980, he theoretically predicted the effect of “super-equilibrium” ionization of molecular gases, which was subsequently discovered experimentally in the USSR and the USA. He created an analytical theory of molecular CO lasers, which formed the basis for the development of powerful quantum generators with high values of efficiency in the USSR.

His approaches to the analysis of combustion processes in porous systems led to the creation of a new class of cleaning devices, radiation heaters, and chemical reactors. Under his leadership, carbon nanotubes were synthesized under nonequilibrium conditions, which is important for the production and use of carbon nanostructured materials (nanoelectronics, building and construction materials, biomedicine).
Author of about 400 scientific papers, incl. 3 monographs, 33 patents and inventor certificates.

State Prize of the Republic of Belarus (2002) for the development of scientific foundations, the creation and introduction of new energy efficient heat and mass transfer technologies and equipment for the energy sector and other sectors of the national economy of the Republic of Belarus. Award of the Leninist Komsomol of Belarus (1986) for the work “Analytical Theory of CO Lasers.” Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (2003) for the monograph “The Physics of Filtration of Burning Gases.” International Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Named After Academician A.V. Lykov (2007) for a series of works “Heat Transfer in Multiphase Media During Physicochemical Transformations.”

In 2002, he was awarded the Medal of Francysk Skaryna.