ISPMS of Tomsk Scientific Center SB RAS staff elected a new director

TOMSK, Apr 22 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State University graduate, physicist Evgeny Kolubaev, Doctor of Engineering Science, became the new director of the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of the Tomsk Scientific Center of the SB RAS; the decision was taken by the general meeting of the team, the press service of the regional administration reported on Monday.

Earlier it was reported that on December 22, 2018, at the 66th year of life, the director of the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergey Psakhie, died suddenly. He headed the institute since 2002. Peter Kaminsky became Acting Director until the end of the official procedure for electing a new head of the Institute in January 2019.

"The general meeting of the team of the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science of the Tomsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences elected Evgeny Kolubaev as the director", - is said in the statement.

According to the press service, Kolubaev was born in Tomsk in 1979. In 2002, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Physics of TSU, in 2005 he became a candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, and in 2016, he received a PhD in technical sciences. A physicist, specialist in materials science and metal processing technologies, has been working at the ISPMS SB RAS since 2001, and since May 2018, he is the deputy director for scientific work.

ISPMS was established in 1984 and is one of the leading scientific institutions of the Russian Federation in the field of materials science, development and creation of new materials, including nanomaterials and products from them. Thus, nano-sized powders and fibers produced by the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science are used as sorbents for removing a wide range of contaminants from water, as well as for the manufacture of ceramics and nanocomposite polymeric materials with enhanced wear resistance.