Birth date: March 16, 1963. Position: Head of the Department of catalytic syntheses on the basis of single-carbon molecules of the L.V.Pisarzhevskii Institute of physical chemistry of NAS of the Ukraine. One monograph, more then 100 papers published in scientific journals, more than 30 presentations at conferences, colloquia etc., more than 10 patents issued.

• Professor, 2002
• Dr. hab., 2001 - L.V.Pisarzhevskii Institute of physical chemistry of NAS of the Ukraine
• Ph.D., 1989 - L.V.Pisarzhevskii Institute of physical chemistry of NAS of the Ukraine
• M.Sc., 1986 - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Education and trainings

1999-2000 - Invited Professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Wuerzburg (Germany)

1997 Invited Researcher at the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto

1995-1996 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto

1995 - Invited Researcher at the University of Southern Mississippi, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

1995 - Invited Professor at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences

1994 -Invited Researcher at the Central Institute of Chemistry, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Oxidation

1992-1994 Lecturer and Student Supervisor. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Department of Molecular and Chemical Physics

Research interests and experiences

• Carbon nanotubes, nanoparticles and nanostructures in heterogeneous catalysis
  

• Heterogeneous-catalytic reactions on fractal and nonuniform surfaces of catalysts

• Synthetic liquid fuel (Fischer-Tropsch syntheses)
  

• Selforganization and selfassembling on surfaces

• Nonlinear chemical phenomena

Selected publications (full list of publications in international journals is available)

1. V.O.Khavrus, A.Leonhardt, S.Hampel, Ch.Taschner, Ch.Muller, W.Gruner, S.Oswald, P.E.Strizhak, B.Buchner Single-step synthesis of metal-coated well-aligned CNx nanotubes using an aerosol-technique Carbon 2007, 45, 2889–2896.
2. A.P.Filippov, P.E.Strizhak, V.G.Il’in Quartz crystal microbalance modified with Cu(II) stearate and octadecylamine co-ordination chemical compounds for detection of volatile organic compounds Sensors and Actuators B 2007, 126, 375–381.
3. Ye.Yu.Kalishyn, M.Rachwalska, V.O.Khavrus, and P.E.Strizhak The effect of oxygen on time-dependent bifurcations in the Belousov–Zhabotinsky oscillating chemical reaction in a batch Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 2005, 7, 1680-1686.
4. J. Maselko, P.Strizhak Spontaneous Formation of Cellular Chemical System that Sustains Itself far from Thermodynamic Equilibrium // J.Phys.Chem.B 2004, 108, 4937-4939. Additional information about this discovery: News@Nature (26 Apr 2004).
5. P.E.Strizhak Application of Chemical Chaos to Analytical Chemistry Advances in Complex Systems 2003, 6 (1), 137-153.
6. V.O.Khavrus, P.E.Strizhak, A.L.Kawczyn ski Scalings of mixed-mode regimes in a simple polynomial three-variable model of nonlinear dynamical systems Chaos 2003, 13, 112-122.
7. Ye.Yu.Kalishyn, V.O.Khavrus, P.E.Strizhak, M.Seipel, A.F.Muenster Macroscopically structured polymer formation governed by spatial patterns in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction Chem.Phys.Lett. 2002, 363, 534-539.
8. P.E.Strizhak, V.O.Khavrus, K.Bar-Eli Effect of NO, CO, and Cl₂ on Mixed-Mode Regimes in the Belousov-Zhabotinskyi Oscillating Chemical Reaction in a CSTR The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 2002, 106, 2505-2511.
9. O.Z.Didenko, P.E.Strizhak Effect of temperature and small amounts of metal ions on transient chaos in the batch Belousov–Zhabotinsky system Chem.Phys.Lett. 2001, 340, 55-61.
10. R.Toledo, M.Silva, V.O.Khavrus, P.E.Strizhak Potential of the analyte pulse perturbation technique for the determination of polyphenols based on the Belousov–Zhabotinskii reaction Analyst, 2000, 125, 2118-2124.
11. O.Z.Didenko, P.E.Strizhak, A.L.Kawczynski Ttransient period adding phenomena in the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction at low flow rates in a CSTR Polish Journal of Chemistry 1999, 73, 2003–2012.
12. A.Goryachev, P.Strizhak, R.Kapral Slow manifold structure and the emergence of mixed-mode oscillations J. Chem. Phys. 1997, 107, 2881-2889.
13. P.E.Strizhak, J.A.Pojman Infinite period and Hopf bifurcations for the pH-regulated oscillations in a semibatch reactor (H₂O₂ - Cu²⁺ - S₂O₃^2- -NaOH system) Chaos 1996, 6, 461-465.
14. P.Strizhak, M.Menzinger Nonlinear dynamics of the BZ reaction: a simple experiment that illustrates limit cycles, chaos, bifurcations, and noise J. Chem. Education 1996, 73, 868-873.
15. P.E.Strizhak New approach to synthesis of fractal materials with a given fractal dimension. Synthesis and some properties of amorphous fractal films of copper sulfide Ber. Bunsen-Ges. Phys. Chem. 1995, 99, 1226-1229.
16. K.B.Yatsimirskii, L.N.Zakrevskaya, P.E.Strizhak, E.V.Rybak-Akimova New oscillation reactions and pattern formation in dioxygen systems Chem. Phys. Lett. 1991, 186, 15-18.