M.Sc., Inorganic Chemistry,

Taras Shevchenko University, Kiev, Ukraine, 1991;

Ph.D., Surface Chemistry,

Institute of Surface Chemistry, Kiev, Ukraine, 1996;

Assoc.Prof., Physical Chemistry,

University of Lund, Sweden, 2002.

Address: P.O. Box 2228
Stockholm SE-14202
Sweden
  Tel: +46 (0)70 9371310
Email: boris.zhmud@sveacon.se
 


Education and Career:

  1. Chief Technology Officer at Applied Nano Surfaces AB (Uppsala, Sweden, since 2009).
  2. R&D manager at E-ION s.a. (Brussels, Belgium, 2007-2009).
  3. Research program manager at AB Nynas Petroleum (Stockholm, Sweden, 2005-2007).
  4. Project manager at the Institute for Surface Chemistry YKI (Stockholm, Sweden, 2000-2005).
  5. Visiting scientist at the Institute for Surface Chemistry YKI (Stockholm, Sweden, 1997-1999).
  6. Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Freshwater Ecology (Wareham, UK, 1996-1997).
  7. Daimler-Benz fellow at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University (Jena, Germany, 1994-1995).
  8. Ph.D. student at the Institute of Surface Chemistry ISC (Kiev, Ukraine, 1991-1993).
  9. Taras Shevchenko University, Department of Chemistry (Kiev, Ukraine, 1986-1991).
  10. The Republican Physico-Mathematical Lyceum (Kiev, Ukraine, 1983-1986).

Scientific Interests and Specific Technical Expertise:

Lubricants and lubrication engineering; Surface chemistry; Physical chemistry; Mathematical modelling.

Selected Publications:

  B.V. Zhmud, J. Sonnefeld, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 91 (1995) 2965.
  B.V. Zhmud, W.A. House, F.H. Denison, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans., 93 (1997) 3473.
  F. Tiberg, B.V. Zhmud, K. Hallstensson, M. von Bahr, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2 (2000) 5189.
  B. Zhmud, F. Tiberg, Adv. Colloid Interface Sci., 113 (2005) 21.
  B. Zhmud, Tribology and Lubrication Technology, 67(9) (2011) 42.
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