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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Our reach into the international materials, corrosion, and engineering communities covering more than 40 countries on six continents bodes well for the kind of networking, collaboration, and wide dissemination of knowledge on which the success of FIRST-M depends.
The countries include Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the UK, the US, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.
The international collaboration allows FIRST-M to have direct access to the most advanced metallurgical, materials, corrosion, and electrochemical R&D at the world’s leading research institutions.
Dr. Shipilov speaking at the NACE CORROSION 2015 Conference in Dallas, TX. Photo: NACE International.
At a technical meeting at the
Shanghai University of Electric
Power, Shanghai, China, 2011.
During an assessment of
a wastewater treatment
plant in Western Canada, 2019.
On the site of a 600-km oil pipeline condition assessment in India, 2018. (The shadow is very short in the picture because the sun was directly overhead, and the sun’s rays fell almost vertically on the body, like in a Zero Shadow Day.)
Shipilov (front row standing, fifth from left), one of four international experts invited to lecture at the Topical Day on Modeling of Localized Corrosion, SCK-CEN: Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, with the staff of SCK-CEN and attendees of the Topical Day, Mol, Belgium, 2002. Photo: SCK-CEN.
Shipilov with presenters at the NACE East Asia and Pacific Rim Area Students and Young Scholars Forum, which he was invited to chair during the NACE Corrosion Shanghai 2011 Conference and International Marine Coatings Summit (IMCS 2011) in Shanghai, China, 2011.
Shipilov (first from right) is among the U.S. Department of Energy personnel visiting Pioneer Natural Resources Co., an oil and gas exploration and production company ranked 248th on the Fortune 500, Irving, Texas, 2017. Photo: ORNL.
The U.S. Army UH-60A Black Hawk helicopter, similar in design to an MH-60K Black Hawk lost two months earlier due to mechanical failure during a CIA-led mission, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, in Pakistan on May 2, 2011.
At the 2023 U.S. Department of Defense Corrosion Prevention Technology and Innovation Symposium, Tucson, Arizona.
Shipilov with Prof. Zhong-Guang Wang, Director of the State Laboratory for Fatigue and Fracture of Materials, Prof. En-Hou Han, Institute Deputy Director and Head of the Corrosion Center, and Dr. Jianqiu Wang during his visit to the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, 2004. In Shenyang, he was asked to read lectures to graduate students and serve as a co-chair of a full-day research conference of young researchers and Ph.D. students.
With Prof. Guo-Ding Zhou, Director of the Key Laboratory of Shanghai Institutes and Universities for Electric Power Corrosion Control and Applied Electrochemistry, and Prof. Hong-Hua Ge (right) while visiting the Shanghai University of Electric Power, Shanghai, China, 2011.
Accepting recognition from the Iranian Corrosion Association (ICA) and organizers of the Iranian Corrosion/2007 ICA International Congress, Tehran, Iran, 2007. Photo: ICA. While in Tehran, Shipilov gave a one-day tutorial on “Examination of Environment-Induced Cracking Mechanisms” at the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology, a leading government research institution in the country.
With Prof. Anding Cai, SRIM Director, and Prof. Guangfu Li (center), Head of Corrosion Laboratory, while visiting the Shanghai Research Institute of Materials (SRIM), Shanghai, China, 2011.
Shipilov (seated fourteenth from left), one of the keynote speakers, among the attendees of the 2nd China International Corrosion Control Conference (CICC’2002), Beijing, China, 2002. Photo: China Anticorrosion Technology Association. When in Beijing, he was invited to the Beijing General Research Institute for Nonferrous Metals (GRINM)—the largest comprehensive research center in the Chinese non-ferrous metals industry—to assist with a post-fracture fractographic analysis of aluminum alloys and the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) and Beijing University of Chemical Technology to read lectures at their Schools of Materials Science and Engineering.
