Dmitry Sednev, who headed the School of Non-Destructive Testing at Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) for three years, was appointed Acting Rector of the university. Biography of the new head of Polytechnic University - is in the reference of RIA Tomsk.
Associate professor, PhD in technical sciences, graduate of the Skolkovo School of Rectors. Winner of the Russian Academy of Sciences medal for young scientists and the Russian President scholarship.
Dmitry Sednev was born in Seversk in 1989. He graduated from Tomsk Polytechnic University with a degree in Safety and Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Materials. He completed his postgraduate studies and defended his thesis on the topic "Development of the scientific and technical foundations of acoustic identification to ensure the non-proliferation regime of nuclear materials".
At the university he combined teaching and scientific work in the field of non-destructive testing, ultrasonic tomography, materials science, safety and non-proliferation of nuclear materials. He has developed a technology for control of integrity and authenticity of containers with nuclear materials and waste through a welded seam (for this project he received a medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences).
He also developed an ultrasonic flaw detector in a new configuration. It is a robotic analogue of ultrasound for metal parts, allowing to detect the smallest defects in materials.
At the age of 29, he headed a large educational and research unit at Tomsk Polytechnic University - Engineering School of Non-Destructive Testing. This school is one of the leaders in Russia in the field of non-destructive testing, and at TPU it is one of the most successful divisions in interaction with industrial partners and implementation of developments.
The team under his leadership participates in international scientific projects at the megascience level. Among these projects is the largest in Russia ultrasonic flaw detector for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in France.
Dmitry Sednev led the work to create an experimental site for advanced non-destructive testing at Tomsk Electromechanical Plant (TEMP). It opened in the spring of 2021. Installations have been assembled there to detect the smallest defects in the complicated parts of gas trunk pipelines, such as those used at the Power of Siberia. The units at the site have no analogues in the world today.
The Center for Industrial Tomography was also created under his leadership at Tomsk Polytechnic. Here they investigate modern composite and metallic materials, for example, for the aerospace industry. All installations in the Center for Industrial Tomography are their own developments of Tomsk polytechnics.
