I started working at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 on September 16, 2000. To celebrate my 25-years anniversary at UU, I gave a talk at the nanoseminar on Friday, September 19, 2025. Here you can and . Below I add the video of my presentation. Unfortunately, the first 15 minutes, when I was talking about life of Vsevolod Fr茅edericksz, are missing since the recording was started later. Still, you can see selected examples of my projects that were done in these 25 years.
On February 6, 2024, I gave a plenary talk at the User Meeting of the European Synchrotron ESRF about our recent research. You can see it on YouTube
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In the scientific world, I have a slightly different name. Please don't try to use the spelling used on top of this page if you like to find my publications in Web of Science or another publication database. That is the "official" spelling of my name as in the passport. All my publications are signed as Andrei V. Petukhov or A.V. Petukhov. For historical reasons and due to the ambiguity of the transliteration from Cyrillic alphabet, my official name is not exactly the same as my scientific name. My publications and their citation score can be seen at my , , and pages.
My scientific interests are mostly related to self-organisation of colloids of size varying from a few nm nanoparticles ("quantum dots") to a couple of micron "elephants". We use spheres and cubes, platelets, rods and boards, complex-shape particles with protrusions and Janus particles. We vary the details of interparticle interactions, we apply different external fields and we look at confinement effects. It is a lot of fun! If you like to learn more, please read our recent reviews on and .
In Utrecht I am known as "the SAXS man". Here SAXS stands for Small-Angle X-ray Scattering. My group does many experiments at synchrotron facilities, mostly at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF). We intensively use the Dutch-Belgian beamline BM-26 DUBBLE and other ESRF public beamlines such as ID10 and ID02. We do a lot of SAXS and grazing-incidence SAXS (GISAXS), high-resolution x-ray diffraction (XRD) and GIXRD. Recently, we started to play with various x-ray microscopy techniques. If you like to get beamtime at the ESRF or another synchrotron, read my .
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I was working in the International Advisory Council of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal 木瓜福利影视 since 2016, as its chairman since 2017. On February 24, 2022, together with the Council vice-chair philosopher Prof. Thomas Spitzley (Universit盲t Duisburg/Essen), I resigned from this post. In our letter we wrote: "To our minds, the activities of the Council should have nothing to do with politics. It was always our policy to restrict our discussions to science and teaching. However, in view of the latest news, we are no longer able to separate our activities in the Council from general politics and we now feel uncomfortable with our status as Council members and, thereby, in a sense, as representatives of the IKBFU. We, therefore, have decided not only to resign with immediate effect from our offices as chair and vice-chair of IAC but also from the IKBFU International Advisory Council." |
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This photo is taken in May 2017 in the 木瓜福利影视 of Oxford during my 2-months sabbatical at the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory. One can see three organisers of the Liquid Matter Conference (LMC-6) in Utrecht in 2005; from left to right: Dirk Aarts, AVP and Roel Dullens. It was fun to wear the LMC-6 T-shirts again to say hello to the organisers and participants of LMC-10, which takes place twelve years later in Ljubljana.
The photo is taken on November 6, 2014 during the inauguration of the ESRF beamline ID02 after its upgrade. The beamline is specialised in small-angle x-ray scattering. From left to right: ESRF director general Francesco Sette, Chairman of the ESRF Science Advisory Committee Keijo Hämäläinen, beamline responsible Th. Narayanan and myself, honoured to participate in the ceremony.
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