Yurij B. Paderno
PhD (Engineering), Senior Researcher, Professor Emeritus of Shandong Technical University (Jinan, China)Head of the Laboratory of Refractory Compounds of Rare Earth Metals, Frantsevych Institute for Problems in Materials Science, NAS of Ukraine (1970–2005). Fields of research: solid state physics; technology development for obtaining and introduction into the manufacture new materials based on refractory compounds from transition and rare earth metals.