Sergey Yudintsev received his Ph.D. degree in Geochemistry in 1989 and his D.Sc. degree in Mineralogy in 2009 from the Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences (IGEM RAS). He has worked at the IGEM RAS since 1986, and his current positions are that of Principal Researcher and Head of the Laboratory of Radiogeology and Radiogeoecology. His research topics mainly include the nuclear fuel cycle, high-level radioactive waste, actinides, immobilization, ceramics, glass-ceramics, glass, and geological disposal.
Michael I. Ojovan received his M.Sc. in Solid State Physics
from Moscow Engineering Physical Institute Michael in 1979, a D.Phil. from the
National Research Nuclear University on Interaction of Radiation with Small
Particles in 1982, and a D.Sc. degree in Physical Chemistry from Moscow
Scientific Research Institute of Physical Chemistry on the surface effects in
nuclear waste forms in 1994. He is a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of
Engineering, Department of Materials, Imperial College, London. His research
interests mainly include amorphous oxide materials, glass-liquid transition,
viscosity, poly-phase oxide materials, glasses and crystals for nuclear waste
immobilization, aqueous corrosion, long-term performance and radiation-induced
effects in glasses, nuclear waste processing, immobilization technologies,
metastable and strongly excited systems, and Rydberg matter.
