# Roman Gladyshevskii

Roman Gladyshevskii (Ukrainian: Роман Євгенович Гладишевський) – Ukrainian scientist in the field of crystal chemistry of inorganic compounds, Doctor in Chemical Sciences, Professor, Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology, Honored Scientist and Engineer of Ukraine, Vice-rector for Science and Research, Director of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv.

## Biography

Born on September 19, 1958 in Lviv. In 1980 he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Chemistry of the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv and received the qualification “Chemist. Teacher of Chemistry”. In 1980-1981 he worked as an Engineer at the Scientific Research Institute for Materials (Lviv), in 1982-1988 he was successively Postgraduate Student, Engineer, and Research Assistant at the Department of General Chemistry of Lviv Polytechnic Institute. In 1987 he defended his PhD thesis “Phase equilibria and crystal structures of compounds in REM-Co-Ga systems, where REM is a metal of the yttrium subgroup”. In 1988-1990 he was engaged as Research Assistant at the Department of Physics of Semiconductors of the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv. Over the next eight years (1990-1997) he worked as Research Assistant at the Laboratory of Crystallography and the Department of Physics of Condensed Matter of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), and as Professor at the Laboratory of Materials Structure of the University of Savoy (Annecy, France). In 1997 he entered doctoral (Professor) studies at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv. In 2001 he defended his doctoral (Professor) thesis “Intermetallics and oxides: from ideal to real crystal structure”. In 2000-2005 he worked as Associate Professor (academic title obtained in 2004), and then Professor (academic title obtained in 2008). Since 2006 he has been the Director of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In 2014-2025 he worked as Vice-rector for Science and Research of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. In 2012 he was elected Corresponding Member, and in 2021 Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in the specialty “Crystal Chemistry”.

## Academic and professional service

His scientific and organizational activities are focused on systematic studies of the interaction of components in metallic systems and the crystal structures of intermetallic compounds, with the aim to further strengthen the scientific school “Crystal Chemistry”, which he has headed since 2006. His scientific works combine the study of phase diagrams, crystal structures, and physical properties in order to discover relationships between the composition, structure and properties of inorganic compounds, in particular intermetallics and high-temperature superconductors. To date, with his participation, phase equilibria in 150 multicomponent systems have been studied, more than 990 new inorganic compounds have been synthesized and their crystal structures determined, 96 new structure types have been discovered and physical properties, including electrical, magnetic, of more than 420 compounds and materials based on them, have been investigated. Particular attention received aluminides, gallides, silicides, and germanides containing rare-earth elements, and multicomponent cuprates. The main experimental methods used in his research are X-ray powder and single-crystal diffraction. He contributed to the development of a “holistic view” of crystalline inorganic substances, which is used in the PAULING FILE database (Inorganic Materials Database) and a classification of structure types of inorganic compounds (Gmelin Handbook) and high-temperature superconductors (Academic Press), proposed a crystal chemical algorithm for experimental studies of phase diagrams, new schemes of relationships between structure types, and methods of structural analysis taking into account the features of the “real structure” (he determined a number of modulated and composite structures), developed new methods for the synthesis of superconducting Bi-2212 and Bi-2223 ceramics and technologies for the manufacture of superconducting ribbons based on Tl-1223.
Co-author of a series of monographs published by Springer-Verlag (Landolt-Börnstein series) and Walter de Gruyter, devoted to the systematics of crystal structures of inorganic compounds. In total, he has co-authored 23 monograph volumes, 4 review articles, 19 patents, more than 400 scientific articles and abstracts of 600 conference reports. He manages research projects with funds of the state budget, as well as grants from the International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD, USA) and the Company “Material Phase Data System” (MPDS, Switzerland), he conducts joint research with scientists from the V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv), Educational and Scientific Institute “Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology” (Dnipro), Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Dresden, Germany), Institute of Low Temperature and Structural Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Wrocław, Poland), Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic), University of Savoy (Annecy, France), and the University of Geneva (Switzerland).
Today he teaches the lecture courses “Inorganic Chemistry” and “Crystal Chemistry” at Lviv University. He is the author/co-author of the current curricula of the following disciplines in the specialty “Chemistry”: “Inorganic Chemistry”, “Crystal Chemistry”, “Computational Methods in Chemistry and Materials Science”, “Methods to Determine Crystal Structures” (Bachelor’s degree), “Applied Crystal Chemistry”, “Functional Materials”, “Physical Properties of Inorganic Materials” (Master’s degree), and “Systems with Unique Physical Properties”, “Modern Trends in Chemistry” (for the preparation of a Doctor of Philosophy degree). He is the guarantor of the educational and scientific program of a Doctor of Philosophy degree in specialty 102 Chemistry at Lviv University, which was awarded an exemplary level of accreditation by the National Agency for Quality Assurance in Higher Education in 2020. He has published 31 educational and methodological works, including manuals on crystal chemistry in Ukrainian, English and French. In 2007-2015, he co-managed student programs within the framework of the Leonard Euler scholarship of the DAAD Foundation (Technical University of Munich, Germany). Together with the company “Material Phases Data System” (MPDS, Switzerland) within the framework of the project “Training of specialists in the field of natural sciences”, he organized the courses “Phase Diagrams and Phase Transitions” (in English) by the leading researcher at the Department of Quantum Matter Physics of the University of Geneva (Switzerland) Dr. E. Giannini and “Structural Chemistry for Materials Scientists” by the Honorary Director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Dresden, Germany), Professor Yu. Grin. In 2010, he was elected Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine, and in 2015 Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher School of Ukraine.
Supervisor of 18 candidate theses and PhD theses, and consultant of 2 doctoral theses defended at Lviv University, as well as consultant of 5 theses defended abroad. Co-director of the bilateral Ukrainian-German program for postgraduate students of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solid State Physics (Dresden, Germany, 2012-2016). He has repeatedly delivered plenary lectures at international conferences, among which the International Workshop on Tl- and Hg-Based Superconducting Materials (Cambridge, England, 1997), Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association (St. Louis, USA, 1997), XLVI Zjazd Polskiego Towarzystwa Chemiczhego (Lublin, Poland, 2003), 15, 16, 19, 21 International Conference on Solid Compounds of Transition Elements (Krakow, Poland, 2006, Dresden, Germany, 2008, Genoa, Italy, 2014, Vienna, Austria, 2018, Wrocław, Poland, 2021), XXXV Journées d’Etude des Equilibres entre Phases (Annecy, France, 2009), XV International Seminar on Physics and Chemistry of Solids (Szklarska Poręba, Poland, 2009), 65 Konwersatorium Krystalográficzne (Wrocław, Poland, 2024). He delivered reports at the International Conference on Innovation and Development of International Education (Beijing, China, 2016), the Ukrainian World Congress (Kyiv, 2016), the meeting of the Polish Academy of Arts (Krakow, Poland, 2020, online), the workshop “Restructuring Science, Education and Innovation in Ukraine”, which was organized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine of the USA (2022, online), a seminar of the Department of Education of the University of Oxford (Great Britain, 2024, online). In total, he has participated in more than 200 scientific forums. He took the initiative to award the Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, Professor of Cornell University (USA) Roald Hoffmann Doctor Honoris Causa of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, for his outstanding contribution to the development of world science, strengthening the authority of Ukraine in the international community, and active cooperation with Lviv School of Crystal Chemistry.
Member of the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (since 2023); member (since 2006), chairman (since 2022) of the Expert Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on Certification of Scientific Staff in Chemical Sciences and Chemical Technologies; member of the Commission on Scientific Objects Constituting the National Heritage of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (since 2020); member (since 2003), deputy chairman (since 2024) of the Scientific Council on Challenges in “Inorganic Chemistry” of the NAS of Ukraine; member of the Scientific Coordination Council of the Section of Chemical and Biological Sciences of the NAS of Ukraine (since 2022); member of the Permanent Commission on Scientific Directions of the Section of Chemical and Biological Sciences of the NAS of Ukraine (since 2020); member of the Committee on the National Prize of Ukraine named after Borys Paton (since 2015); head of the Scientific Section “Chemistry and Chemical Technologies” of the Western Scientific Center of the NAS of Ukraine and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (since 2017); head of the Ukrainian Crystallographic Committee (since 2004); editor-in-chief of the international journal “Chemistry of Metals and Alloys” (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv); deputy editor-in-chief of the “Ukrainian Chemical Journal” (V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv) and “Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society”; member of the editorial boards of “Visnyk of Lviv University, Chemical Series”, “Physics and Chemistry of Solid State” (Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk) and “Physical and Chemical Mechanics of Materials” (G.V. Karpenko Institute of Physics and Mechanics, NAS of Ukraine, Lviv); editor of a special issue of “Journal of Alloys and Compounds” (2004); chairman of the organizing committees of the International Conference on Crystal Chemistry of Intermetallic Compounds (since 2002), International Conference “Modern Trends in Teaching Chemistry”, School of Young Scientists “Diffraction Methods…”, All-Ukrainian Competition of Young Researchers “Crystals”; representative of Ukraine in the International Union of Crystallographers (IUCr) and the European Crystallographic Association (ECA); full member and member of the Presidium of the Shevchenko Scientific Society; president of Lviv Regional Junior Academy of Sciences; Honorary Ambassador of Lviv. Co-founder of the Ukrainian-Swedish Scientific Consulting Company “Structure-Properties” (2001).

## Awards

* Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR for the best student work (1981);
* laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology (2008);
* laureate of the L.V. Pysarzhevsky Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2024);
* award of the NAS of Ukraine “For Scientific Achievements” (2018);
* award of the NAS of Ukraine “For Contribution to Innovation in Science” (2023);
* certificates of the International Center for Diffraction Data (ICDD, USA, 2008-2024);
* honorary title “Honored Scientist and Engineer of Ukraine” (2019);
* honorary title “Honored Professor of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv” (2019);
* honorary title “Distinguished Lviv Family” (2018)

## Selected publications

* E. Parthé, L. Gelato, B. Chabot, M. Penzo, K. Cenzual, R. Gladyshevskii. TYPIX Standardized Data and Crystal Chemical Characterization of Inorganic Structure Types. Gmelin Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1993, 1994, Vol. 1-4, 1596 p.
* R.E. Gladyshevskii, K. Cenzual. Crystal Structures of Classical Superconductors. In: Handbook of Superconductivity, Ed. Ch.P. Poole, Jr. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000, Ch. 6, p. 109-250.
* R.E. Gladyshevskii, Ph. Galez. Crystal Structures of High-Tc Superconducting Cuprates. In: Handbook of Superconductivity, Ed. Ch.P. Poole, Jr. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000, Ch. 8, p. 267-431.
* R. Gladyshevskii. X-ray Studies: Chemical Crystallography. In: Handbook of Superconducting Materials. Eds. D.A. Cardwell, D.A. Ginley. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2003, p. 1081-1099.
* J. Daams, R. Gladyshevskii, O. Shcherban, V. Dubenskyy, V. Kuprysyuk, N. Melnichenko-Koblyuk, O. Pavlyuk, I. Savysyuk, S. Stoyko, L. Sysa, R. Zaremba. Crystal Structures of Inorganic Compounds. Landolt-Börnstein III/43 (A: Structure Types, Part 1-11: Space Groups (230) Ia-3d – (123) P4/mmm), Eds. P. Villars, K. Cenzual. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004-2012, 5688 p.
* P. Villars, K. Cenzual, R. Gladyshevskii. Handbook of Inorganic Substances. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2013-2017, 1955 p.
* P. Villars, K. Cenzual, R. Gladyshevskii, S. Iwata. Pauling File: Towards a Holistic View. Materials Informatics: Methods, Tools, and Applications. Eds. O. Isayev, A. Tropsha, S. Curtarolo. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH. 2019. p. 55-106.
* Л. Аксельруд, Р. Гладишевський. Симетрія 5D/6D модульованих структур. Львів: Видавництво Львівського національного університету імені Івана Франка, 2020, 2021, 2691 с.
* R.E. Gladyshevskii. Methods to Determine Crystal Structures. Textbook. Lviv: Publishing Center of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2007-2015, 135 p.
* Р. Є. Гладишевський, С. Я. Пукас. Прикладна кристалохімія. Практикум. Львів: Видавництво Львівського національного університету імені Івана Франка, 2022, 126 с.