Oleg Matveyevich Nefedov - Curriculum vitae#

Education:

• 1954 Graduate, D.I.Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology, Moscow, USSR
• 1954 - 1957 Post-graduate course, D.I.Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology, Moscow, USSR
• 1957 Candidate of Sciences (PhD) from the same Institute
• 1967 Doctor of Sciences (Organic Chemistry), N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, USSR

Professional Certification:

Chemistry and chemical technology

Professional Carrier:

• 1957 - 1968 Research Scientist, N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, USSR
• 1959 - 1960 Postdoctoral fellowship (Prof. Georg Wittig), Heidelburg University, Germany
• 1965 - 1966 Postdoctoral fellowship, Free University, Brussels, Belgium
• 1968 - present Head of the Laboratory of Carbene & Small Ring Chemistry, N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
• 1968 - present Professor of Chemistry, N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
• 1971 Visiting Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA
• 1976 Visiting Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
• 1979 - 1987 Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
• 1981 Visiting Professor, University of Paris - Orsey, France
• 1984 Visiting Professor, Hamburg University, Germany
• 1987 - present Full Member (Academician) of the USSR Academy of Sciences - Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1988 - 1991 Academician-Secretary (Head) of the Division of General & Technical Chemistry of the USSR Academy of Sciences
• 1988 -2001 Vice President of the USSR Academy of Sciences - Russian Academy of Sciences
• 1990 - present Chairman (Rector) of the RAS Higher Chemical College
• 1990 - present Editor-in-Chief of the Journal "Mendeleev Communications", published jointly by the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society of Chemistry
• 1991 - present Editor-in-Chief of the Russian Chemical Bulletin (Izvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya)
• 1995 - present Editor-in-Chief of the Russian Chemical Reviews (Uspekhi Khimii)
• 1996 - present Chairman of the National Committee of Russian Chemist
• 1999 - 2008 Member of the IUPAC Bureau & the Executive Committee (since 2001)
• 2001 - present Counsellor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• 2009 – present Professor and Head of the chair at Lomonosov Moscow State University
• President of the Mendeleev Congresses on General & Applied Chemistry (Tashkent-1989, Minsk-1993, St.Petersburg-1998, Kazan-2003, Moscow - 2007)

Current positions:

Head of the Department, N.D.Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry of RAS; Rector of the RAS Higher Chemical College; Counsellor of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Honorary degrees:

• 1991 - present Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, United Kingdom
• 1991 - present Member of the Academia Europaea, London, United Kingdom
• 1991 - present Member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, Salzburg, Austria
• 1996 - present Foreign Member of the Georgia Academy of Sciences.
• 1997 - present Member of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials (APAM), Bungalore, India
• 2000 - present Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• 2000 - present Honorary Professor of Harbin Polytechnic Institute, China
• 2001 - present Honorary Professor of D.I.Mendeleev Russian Chemical Technology University, Moscow, Russia

Awards:

• 1983, 1990 USSR State Prize in Science & Technology (twice), Moscow, USSR
• 1987 N.D.Zelinsky Prize, Moscow, USSR
• 1988 Prize of the USSR & Hungarian Academies of Sciences, Moscow, USSR
• 1991 N.N.Semenov Prize, Moscow, Russia
• 1993 A.P.Karpinsky Prize, Hamburg, Germany
• 1998 D.I.Mendeleev Gold Medal, Moscow, Russia
• 2002 Russian Federation State Prize in Science & Technology, Moscow, Russia
• 2003 A.M. Butlerov Prize, Moscow, Russia

Research Field:

Physical organic chemistry, small ring chemistry, organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry