Research and Education: Traditions and Innovations

Part I: Bio- and Environmental Engineering.- Investigating Urban Sustainability by Emphasizing on the Approaches for Reducing Fuel Consumption.- Environmental Risk Management by Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in Architecture and Urban Engineering.- Application of Additive Technology to Create Universal Carriers of Cellular Structures.- Comparison and Choice of the Greenhouse Gas Accounting Method for a Model Region in Germany.- Evaluation of Heavy Metal Contamination in Mytilus sp. Shells.- Part II: Electric and Electronic Engineering.- A Fluorescent Protein-based AND Gate for Photon-coupled Protein Logic.- 3D Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Liquid Media via Internal Reference Method.- High-Performance and Low-Voltage Current Sense-Amplifier using GAA-CNTFET with Different Chirality and Channel.- An Angle-sensitive, Nickel Bolometer-based, Adaptive Infrared Pixel Antenna.- Part III: Intelligent and Soft Computing Techniques.- Intelligent Pantry: A Low Cost Smart Storage Manager for Food Spoilage Prevention.- A Parallelization of Instance Methods of a .NET Application that Search for Required Structured Data Stored in a Skip List.- Deep Learning Applications for COVID-19: a Brief Review.- Part IV: Manufacturing Technology.- Effects of Process Parameters on the Dissimilar Friction Stir Welded Joints Between Aluminum Alloy and Polycarbonate.- Part V: Material Science and Technology, Smart Materials.- Investigation of the Convection Effect on the Inclusion Motion in Thermally Stressed Crystals.- Digital Materials Science: Numerical Characterization of Steel Microstructure.- Structure and Optical Properties of a-C Coatings Doped with Nitrogen and Silicon.- Polyaniline-Based Food Quality Markers.- Vacuum Coatings Based on Miramistin and their Biological Properties.- Structure and Properties of Metal-Carbon a-C Coatings Alloyed with Ti, Zr and Al with a High Concentration.- Impact of Modeling Method on Geometry and Mechanical Properties of Samples with TPMS Structure.- Characteristics of Nanocomposite Sol-Gel Films on Black Silicon Surface.- Nio and Nio: Al Films for Solar Cells: A Compromise Between Electrical Conductivity and Transparency.- Photoactive and Structure Properties of ZnOХ MgO Nanocomposite Sol-Gel Films on the Surface of Silicon.- Synthesis of Scintillating Sodium Boron Glass-Ceramic Materials Containing YnbO4: Tb3+ Crystallites.- Development of Sapphire-Like Glass by Sol-Gel Technology.- Sol-gel Synthesis TiO2 Nanotubes Based on ZnO Nanorods, for Use in Solar Cells.- Part VI: Metamaterials and Metasurfaces.- Production and Experimental Study of a Weakly Reflecting Absorbing Metamaterial Based on Planar Spirals in the Microwave Range.- Part VII: Modeling and Diagnostics.- Charaterization of Laser Welding of Steel 30ХГСН2А by Combining Artificial Neural Networks and Finite Element Method.- Investigation of Acoustic Wave Propagation in Complex Geometry.- Development of Material for 3d Printing Based on Thermoplastic Elastomer.- Investigation of the Effect of Observation Window on the Sensitivity Enhancement in the Multi-Pass Cell Outside the Expansion Wave Tube Chamber.- Modeling and Optimization of a Microgrid for a Midrise Apartment and Industry.- Part VIII: Nanotechnology and Nanometrology.- Raman Investigation of Multiferroic BiFeO3 and Bi1-xSmXFeO3 Materials Synthesized by the Sol-Gel Method.- Piezoelectric Properties of SrBi2(TaxNb1-x)2O9 Thin Films Synthesized by the Sol-Gel Method.- Part IX: Plasma Physics.- The Physicochemical/Electrical Properties of Plasma Activated Medium by Dielectric Barrier Discharge Microplasma.- Part X: iA Young Researcher.- Spatial Resolution of X-ray Imaging using 80µm Pitch TlBr Detector.- Partial Two-Particle Equations in the Relativistic Configurational Representation for Scattering p-States in the Case of a Superposition of Two -Function Potentials.- Analysis of the Spatial Distribution of the Second-Harmonic Radiation Generated in a Thin Surface Lay

Sergei Khakhomov graduated from Francisk Skorina Gomel State University in 1991 with a degree in Physics. After completing postgraduate studies Sergei A. Khakhomov has been working at Gomel State University: in 1995 - became an Assistant of the Department of General Physics, in 1997 - took up a Senior Lecturer, in 1998 - became an Associate Professor, from 2003 to 2009 - Head of the Department of Optics, from 2009 to 2010 - Dean of the Faculty of Physics, from 2010 to 2014 - Vice-rector for academic affairs, from September 2014 to June 2016 - First Vice-rector. Since June 15, 2016 - Rector of Francisk Skorina Gomel State University and since May 2018 - Professor of Department of Optics. He earned a PhD in Physics and Mathematics in 1997 at the Belarusian State University in Minsk. In 2018, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (Higher Doctorate) at the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk. He was anexecutive and a supervisor of more than 20 international projects. Sergei Khakhomov is a scientific supervisor of one PhD student and an author of more than 340 scientific and scientific-methodical works, including 3 monographs, 15 chapters in books, 25 educational-methodical and reference books, over 90 scientific articles in journals, more than 80 scientific and methodical articles in conference proceedings, 8 patents.

Igor Semchenko graduated from Gomel State University in 1981 with a degree in Physics. He earned a PhD in Physics and Mathematics in 1984 at the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk. In 1997, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Physics and Mathematics (Higher Doctorate) at the Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in Minsk. In 1999, he got a Full Professor at the Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk. He is a Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. His research interests are focused on the field of electrodynamics of artificial anisotropic structures and metamaterials. Professor Semchenko was a scientific supervisor of six PhD students and one Doctor of Science. He was a supervisor of more than 25 international scientific projects. He is a coauthor of more than 350 scientific papers. His works include 4 monographs, 13 chapters in collective monographs, more than 110 articles in journals, more than 120 articles in conference proceedings, 9 patents, 5 preprints, as well as 60 abstracts.

Oleg Demidenko graduated from Gomel State University in 1982 with a major in "Organization of mechanized processing of economic information." In 1991, he completed a PhD course at Moscow Institute of Civil Aviation Engineers and defended the thesis "Development of methods and means of analyzing processes of functioning of informational and calculating networks." In 2004, he defended a doctoral thesis (Higher Doctorate) "Techniques and means of research and adapting a calculating process to operating load of a local area network" at Belarusian State University. In 2004, he was awarded a Full Professor. He worked as the Head of Department of Automated Systems of Data Processing for 14 years. Since 2007, he has been the Vice-rector for research of Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. Oleg Demidenko is a scientific supervisor of six PhD students and an author of 6 monographs and more than 150 scientific publications.

Dmitry Kovalenko, PhD, is an Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Physics and IT, and Leading Researcher of the Laboratory of Advanced Materials of Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. He has been engaged in scientific work since 1997. Currently, the area of ​​scientific interests of Dmitry Kovalenko includes the development of thin-film materials by the sol-gel method for use in optics and microelectronics. He is a scientific supervisor in the state research programs "Photonics, optoelectronics and microelectronics," "Physical materials science, new materials and technologies." He was invited to carry out collaborative research at the Institute of Low Temperatures and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Wroclaw, Poland), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Iasi, Romania), the University of Palermo (Palermo, Italy), the University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal), etc.