Department staff
Professor Victor Starov BSc MSc PhD DSc FRSC
Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Tel
- +44 (0)1509 222508
- v.m.starov@lboro.ac.uk
Background
Educated at Moscow State University, PhD from USSR Academy of Sciences, DSc from Petersburg (former Leningrad) University. Joined Loughborough University as a Professor in 1999. Previously Visiting Professor: University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA; Sofia University, Bulgaria; Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Madrid, Spain; Toulouse University, France; and University of Wales, Swansea, UK.
Honorary Professor, Moscow State University of Food Production, Russia (2007 to present).
Professional affiliations
- Fellow of The Royal Society of Chemistry
- Member of Council of International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists
External activities
Member of the Editorial Board of 7 Scientific Journal, including
- Advances in Colloid and Interface Science
- Current Opinion in Colloid and Interface Science (co-chairman of a section)
- Desalination
- Colloid Journal (Russian Academy of Sciences)
Research interests and activities
- Kinetics of wetting and spreading: influence of surface forces, spreading over hydrophobic and porous substrates
- Influence of surface forces on membrane separation: nano-filtration, ultra- and microfiltration (fouling and/or gel layers formation)
- Influence of surface forces on rheology of concentrated suspensions
Invited and keynote lectures (since 2000)
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Around 20 all over the world
Participated in numerous Organising / Scientific Committee of International Conferences including
- European Conference of Colloid and Interface Society
- Interfaces Against Pollution
- Surface Forces
- European Chemistry at Interfaces Conference
- International Electrokinetics
- Non-Equilibrium Processes in Colloid Chemistry
- Colloid and Bioparticle Systems
- Kinetics of Electrode Processes
- Bubble & Drop Dynamics