Borys Grynyov

Borys Viktorovych Grynyov (Борис Вікторович Гриньов) (born 1 April 1956 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a Ukrainian scientist, public figure, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NAS), Honored Science Worker of Ukraine, Doctor of Engineering Science, Professor and currently Director of the State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine.

Chief Researcher of Institute for Scintillation Materials NAS of Ukraine

Borys Grynyov was born on 1 April 1956 in Kharkiv.

Ukrainian, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Engineering Science, Professor.

Borys Grynyov obtained a Specialist degree in Physics from Kharkiv University in 1978.

In 1978–1987 he was a student and junior research worker in O.M. Gorky Kharkiv State University, Senior geophysical worker, sector manager in Tyumen Special Design and Technology Bureau with Research Production by “ZahSibNaftoGeoFizika” Department of Ministry of Oil Industry of the USSR.

He obtained his Candidate Dissertation in Physics and Mathematics in 1985 from Donetsk National University under the supervision of Volodymyr Semynozhenko, “On the theory of the normal and ferromagnetic superconductors in the strong electromagnetic fields”.

In 1987 he started working at the Institute for Single Crystals (ISC) in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

There he completed his Doctoral Dissertation in Technical Sciences on the subject of “Ionization detectors for extreme conditions” in 1994.

From 1996 to December 2002 he was Director of the Institute for Single Crystals (ISC) - General director of Scientific &Technology Concern «Institute for Single Crystals» NAS of Ukraine.

He became Corresponding-member of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 1997.

In 1997–1999 he was Deputy Minister for Science and Technology, First Deputy Head of the State Committee for Science & Intellectual Properties.

From 1997 to 2003 and since 2010 until 2022, he represented Ukraine in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia.

In 1998 was conferred on title of Honoured Scientist and Technician of Ukraine, he was awarded the Professor degree.

In 1998–2000 he was a member of National Ukrainian Committee in cases UNESCO.

In December 2002 he created the Institute for Scintillation Materials within the structure of the NAS of Ukraine and was its director from 2002 to 2011.

In 2006 became the Member (Academician) of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Since 2007 he has been the Head of Department of Crystal Physics at Kharkiv National University.

Since 2008 - 2022 he was a Member of the JINR Scientific Council.

From 2010 till 2015 was a member of Presidium of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

From April, 2010 he is the Scientific Director of Institute for Scintillation Materials NAS of Ukraine.

From April till July, 2010 he was the Chairman of State Committee Scientific and Technical Progress and Innovations of Ukraine.

B. Grinyov was a member of Committee of Ukraine State Prizes for Science and Technology in 2010–2015.

From 2011 to 2014 he was the First Deputy Head of the State Agency on Science, Innovation and Informatization of Ukraine.

Since 2014 until 2017 he was the Director of State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine.

Since March 2017 representative of Ukraine to the CERN Council (Canton of Geneva, Switzerland)

Since 2017 until present he is a Director of Institute for Scintillation Materials NAS of Ukraine

The scientific activities (Present)

The interaction processes of electromagnetic radiation with condensed matter.

Ceramic composite, single-crystal, film, liquid and plastic materials for various functional purposes.

Scintillation Materials, luminescence, radiation instrumentation.

R&D head

Methods’ development of the organization scintillation properties for single crystals on the basis of rare earth oxides.

Elaboration and receiving low-background scintillation materials for double β-decay and dark matter researching

The main directions of scientific activities of Boris Grinyov are such as: the fundamental properties of scintillation materials studying, searching for new scintillators, instruments and devices developing based on new scintillators for applications in various fields.

. B. Grinyov's works to a large extent, determine the level of modern world technologies for the production and processing of scintillation and luminescent materials.

Research conducted by B. Grinyov enabled to develop industrial automated technology of growing the large highly transparent optical crystal with a diameter up to 600 mm, ideal scintillation single crystals of up to 520 mm in diameter and weighing more than 500 kg. For the high-energy physics experiments the production technology of plastic scintillators were developed with weighing up to 1,000 kg with a high bulk transparency (up to 4 m), scintillator plates of up to 3.7 m, unique scintillation strips and combined complex shape detectors.

On the initiative and under the direction of B. Grinyov the production of very pure single crystals of salts was organized in Ukraine.

And this production provided a stable export of high technology products such as scintillators based on alkali metal halides.

He also directs the research which purpose is to search for new scintillation materials for experiments to search for "dark matter" and the double β-decay.