Dr. Mikheev is a Senior Research Scientist at InnovaTek where he is responsible for research and development activities associated with advanced technologies employing aerosol collection and identification. These technologies support products in the Company's Environmental Safety Division. Prior to joining InnovaTek Dr. Mikheev worked as a visiting scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland WA. He began an association with staff members at PNNL in 1993 and in February 1998 he arrived in the U.S. to work at PNNL on a Department of Energy study of tropospheric aerosols. Since that time until joining InnovaTek in December 2000, he was leading the experimental efforts at PNNL in several aerosol nucleation related areas.

Prior to his arrival in the U.S., Dr. Mikheev was employed at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Durng that time he progressed from Probationary Research Scientist to Junior Research Scientist and finally, in 1992 to Senior Research Scientist.

Generally Dr. Mikheev's research activities have been in the areas of aerosol science, nucleation, and photo-induced nucleation. During his career his work has led to many improvements to the laminar flow tube reactor (LFTR) technique for quantifying nucleation phenomena for various chemical systems and under various temperature and pressure conditions. In his early work, he studied the homogeneous nucleation of several alcohols, namely, propanol, butanol, and iso-pentanol. Later, his work expanded to include studies of the photo-induced nucleation properties of some metal organic substances (betha-diketonates of metals), explosive substances (trinitrotoluene) and nitro-aromatic compounds, as well as some more exotic silicon organic species such as octaorganyl-silsesquioxanes (used in micro-electronics). In 1980-1982 Dr. Mikheev also obtained the first detailed numerical solutions for the temperature, concentration, saturation ratio and nucleation rate distributions inside the flow tube reactor.

Dr. Mikheev has a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Candidate of Physical-Mathematical Sciences from the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia, 1994, and an M.S. in Chemical Physics, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia, 1980.

Top