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Biljana Minčeva-Šukarova

Education:

  • Oct. 1982 - Ph.D. in Physics (Raman Spectra of High Pressure Phase of Ice in their Region of Stability), Department of Physics, King’s College, London;
  • Jan. 1974 – M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry (Vibrational Spectra of Carbon Dioxide in Solutions), Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia;
  • April 1971 – B.Sc. in Physical Chemistry, Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

Work Experience:

  • 1996-present – Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, University “St Cyril & Methodius”, Skopje, Macedonia;
  • 1991-1996 – Associate Professor, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, University “St Cyril & Methodius”, Skopje, Macedonia;
  • 1985-1991 – Reader, Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences & Mathematics, University “St Cyril & Methodius”, Skopje, Macedonia;
  • 1972-1985 – Assistant lecturer, Faculty of Chemistry, University “St Cyril & Methodius”, Skopje, Macedonia.

Teaching:

  • Physical Chemistry ,
  • Radiochemistry,
  • Spectroscopy,
  • Material Science

Research:

Molecular Spectroscopy, IR and Raman (& micro-Raman) spectroscopy of solids: polymorphs of ice, clathrate hydrates, Hofmann-type clathrates, minerals, pigments, automotive paints, ceramics

Collaboration with:

  • G R Wilkinson & W F Sherman, Department of Physics, King’s College, London
  • Carolyn Koh, Department of Chemistry, King’s College, London
  • W. P. Griffith, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College, London
  • S. V. Ribnikar, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of Belgrade,
  • D. Vikic-Topic & G. Baranovic, “Rudjer Boskovic” Institute, Zagreb, Croatia.
  • Prof. Sevim Akuyz, Department of Physics, Istanbul University, Istanbul (Turkey),
  • Peter Vabdebeele, Analytical Chemistry, University of Ghent (Belgium)
  • Philippe Colomban, LADIR – CNRS, Paris, France

Grants:

  • 1984-1997 British Council - Alis Link Grants;
  • 1988-Tempus Phare Mobility Grant;
  • 2001-2004 Nato Science Program;
  • 2001-2003 And 2003-2005 Tubitak (Turkish Science Program).

Project co-ordinator (2000-2005):

  • Experimental and theoretical study of host-guest interaction in Hofmann-type clathrates (Department of Physics, Istanbul University, Turkey) (TÜBITAK) (1.10.2000 – 30.09.2002).
  • Study of the host-guest interactions in clathrates and related systems - NATO Science program CLG Ref.No. 977638 (Department of Chemistry, King’s College, London) (April 1st 2001 – March 30th 2004).
  • Spectroscopic manifestation on the structural aspects in some inclusion compounds: Hofmann type clarhrates, clay organic complexes and some self clathrates (Department of Physics, Istanbul University, Turkey) (TÜBITAK) (1.07.2003 – 30.06.2005).
  • COST G8 action: Non-destructive Analysis and Testing of Museum Objects, COST-CORDIS project, (2005-2006).

Publications :

  • S. V. Ribnikar, O. S. Puzić and B. N. Šukarova, Anharmonicity of the carbon dioxide molecule in solution of the acetylen and carbon tetrachloride, Bull. Soc. Chim. Beograd, 38 (1973) 509-519.
  • B. N. Šukarova and S. V. Ribnikar, Vibrational anharmonicity of carbon disulphide molecules in solution, Bull. Chem. Technol. Macedonia, 2 (1975) 11-21.
  • В. Цветанов, В. Сеизова, Т. Грчев и Б. Шукарова, Нашите согледувања за етиологијата на „ѕидарскиот екцем“, III Пулмолошки денови на лекарите на СР Македонија, Охрид, 1976, Зборник на трудови, 31-34.
  • B. Šukarova, W. F. Sherman and G. R. Wilkinson, Raman spectra of high pres-sure phases of ice in their region of stability, J. Mol Struct. 79 (1982) 289-292.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, W. F Sherman, G. R. Wilkinson, A high pressure spectro-scopic study on ice III-ice IX, disordered-ordered transition, J. Mol Struct.  (1984) 137-140.
  • W. F. Sherman, G. R. Wilkinson, B. Šukarova and G. Slark, Isolated OH and OD stretching frequencies in the Raman spectra of high pressure ice forms, Proceed. of IXth Inter. Confer. on Raman Spectroscopy, Tokyo, 1984, Contributed papers 788-789.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, W. F. Sherman and G. R. Wilkinson, The Raman spectra of ice (Ih, II, III, V, VI and IX) as functions of pressure and temperature, J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys., 17 (1984) 5833-5850.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, W. F. Sherman and G. R. Wilkinson, Isolated O-D stretching frequencies in ice II, Spectrochim. Acta, 41A (1985) 315-318.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, G. E. Slark and W. F. Sherman, The Raman spectra of ice V and VI and evidence of partial proton ordering at low temperatures, J. Mol. Struct., 143 (1986) 87-90.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, G. E. Slark, W. F. Sherman and G. R. Wilkinson, A re-correlation of the vibrational spectra and crystallographic data for various ice polymorphs, J. Phys., C1, 48 (1987) 37-43.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, G. Slark and W. F. Sherman, The Raman spectra of KOH doped ice polymorphs: V and VI, J. Mol. Struct., 175 (1988) 289-293.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova and W. F. Sherman, The Raman spectra of tetrahydrofuran clathrate hydrate as a function of pressure and temperature, Proceed. of the Eleventh Inter. Conf. on Raman Spectroscopy, Ed. R. J. H. Clark and D. A. Long, London 1988, p.499-501.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, L. Andreeva and G. Ivanovski, A study of host-guest interaction in Hofmann type clathrates, J. Mol. Struct., 219 (1990) 111-116.
  • L. Andreeva and B. Minčeva-Šukarova, The NH3 deformation vibrations in the Hofmann-type clathrates, Bull. Chem. Technol. Macedonia, 8 (1990) 266-272.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, L. Andreeva, G. Ivanovski and V. Petruševski, An infrared study of Hofmann-Td type clathrates. Host-guest interactions, Vestn. Sloven. Kem. Drus., 37 (1990) 121-129.
  • L. Andreeva, B. Minčeva-Šukarova and V. Petruševski, The motion of the benzene molecules in the host lattice of M(NH3)2M’(CN)4•2C6H6, Croatica Chem. Acta, 65 (1992) 173-178.
  • V. M. Petruševski, B. Minčeva-Šukarova and A. D`orovska, The vibrational species of molecules in disordered crystals : M(NH3)2 groups at C4h symmetry sites, Bull. Chem. Technol. Macedonia, 12 (1993) 31-34.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, L. Andreeva and W. F. Sherman, Vibrational anharmonicity of the C-H out-of-plane vibrations in some Hofmann type clathrates, J. Mol. Struct., 293 (1993) 151-154.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, W. F. Sherman and V. M. Petruševski, Raman spectra of ice forms: Ih, II, IX(III), V and VI in the region of rotational H2O vibrations, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Inter. Conf. on Raman Spectroscopy, Silver Jubilee, Ed. N.-T. Yu and X.-Y. Li, Hong Kong, 1994, p.988-989.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, L. Andreeva and C. J. Chunnilall, Raman spectra of Hofmann and Hofmann-Td type clathrates and their structural identification, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Inter. Conf. on Raman Spectroscopy, Silver Jubilee, Ed. N.-T. Yu and X.-Y. Li, Hong Kong, 1994, p.762-763.
  • M. Najdoski, B. Minčeva-Šukarova, A. Drake, I. Grozdanov and C. J. Chunnilall, Optical properties of thin solid films of lead sulphide, J. Mol. Struct., 349 (1995) 85-88.
    22. M. Najdoski, I. Grozdanov and B. Minčeva-Šukarova, Oriented cadmium oxide thin solid films, J. Mater. Chem., 6 (1996) 761-764.
  •  B. Minčeva-Šukarova, L. Andreeva, F. Romain and W. F. Griffith, Raman and far infrared spectra of Hofmann-type clathrates : the assignment of the bands in the low frequency region, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Inter. Confer. on Raman Spectroscopy, Volume II, Ed. P. Stein and S. A. Asher, Pittsburgh, 1996, p.77-78.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, V. M. Petruševski and W. F. Sherman, Raman spectra of translational lattice vibrations in ice II : Comparison with ice Ih, Proceedings of the Fifteenth Inter. Confer. on Raman Spectroscopy, Volume II, Ed. P. Stein and S. A. Asher, Pittsburgh, 1996, p.93-94.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, M. Najdoski, I. Grozdanov and C. J. Chunnilall, Raman spectra of thin solid films of some metal sulfides, J. Mol. Struct., 410-411 (1997) 267-270.
  • L. Andreeva and B. Minčeva-Šukarova, Vibratioinal spectra of partially debenzenated analogues in some en-Td type clathrates, J. Mol. Struct., 408-409 (1997) 431-434.
  • Liljana Andreeva and Biljana Minčeva-Šukarova, Far-infrared and Raman spectra of the low frequency region in Hofmann-Td type clathrates, J. Mol. Struct., 408-409 (1997) 435-438.
  • Lj. Pejov, B. Minčeva-Šukarova, L. Andreeva, V M Petruševski and G. Ivanovski, Theoretical modeling and experimental Raman and Infrared study of the host-guest interactions in Hofmann type clathrates, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Inter. Confer. on Raman Spectroscopy, Ed. A. M. Heyns, Cape Town, South Africa, 1998, p.198-199.
  • Lj. Pejov, B. Minčeva-Šukarova and V M Petruševski, Raman and theoretical study of the pressure effects on the anharmonicity of OH and OD stretching vibrations in ordered ice forms : ice II and ice IX, Proceedings of the Sixteenth Inter. Confer. on Raman Spectroscopy, Ed. A. M. Heyns, Cape Town, South Africa, 1998, p.574-575.
  • Biljana Minčeva-Šukarova, Raman studies of pressure effect on the OH and OD stretching vibrations in different ice polymorphs, Physical Chemistry ’98, 4th Inter. Confer. on Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Physical Chemistry, September 1998, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, PAPERS, p.69-73.
  • Ljupčo Pejov, Biljana Minčeva-Šukarova, Liljana Andreeva and Vladimir M Petruševski, Theoretical and experimental (infrared and Raman) study of the host-guest interactions in some Hofmann type clathrates, J. Mol. Struct. 482-483 (1999) 87-91.
  • Лјилјана Андреева и Биљана Минчева-Шукарова, Изучување на гостин- домаќин интеракциите кај тиоцијанатни бензенски клатрати, Книга на тродови од 16. Конгрес на хемичарите и технолозите на Македонија (со меѓународно учество) Том I, стр. 39-42 (1999).
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, L. Andreeva, Lj. Pejov and V. Petruševski Vibrational spectroscopic and quantum theoretical study of host-guest interactions in clathrates: I. Hofmann type clathrates, J. Serb. Chem. Soc. 65 (2000) 417-430.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, Lj. Pejov, L. Andreeva and V. Petruševski Vibrational spectroscopic and quantum theoretical study of host-guest interactions in clathrates: II. Hofmann-Td type clathrates, Physical Chemistry 2000, Proceed. of the 5th Inter. Confer. on Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Physical Chemistry, September 2000, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, PAPERS, p.74-77.
  • Ljupčo Pejov, Liljana Andreeva, Biljana Minčeva-Šukarova and Vladimir M. Petruševski, The vibrational Stark effect on the doubly degenerate 19 modes of the benzene guest molecules in Hofmann type clathrates, Croatica Chem. Acta 73 (2000) 1185-1196.
  • V. Stefov, G. Jovanovski, B. Soptrajanov, B. Minceva-Sukarova, S. Dimitrovska and B. Boev, Minerals from Macedonia V. Characterisation of Gypsum, Barite and their synthetic analogues by FTIR and Raman spectroscopy, Geologica Macedonica 14 (2000) 61-66.
  • P. Makreski, G. Jovanovski, V. Stefov, B. Minceva-Sukarova, B. Kaitner, B. Boev, Minerals from Macedonia. VI. Separation and identification of some sulfide minerals, Geologica Macedonica, 15-16 (2001-2002) 43-50.
  • B. Minceva-Sukarova, L. Andreeva, S. Akyuz and C. A. Koh, Raman and far infrared spectra of the low frequency region in Hofmann type clathrates, Proceedings of the XVIIIth Confer. on Raman Spectroscopy, Ed. J. Mink, G. Jalsovszky and G. Keresztury, Budapest, Hungary, 2002 , p.641-642.
  • G. Jovanovski, B. Minceva-Sukarova, P. Makreski, B. Soptrajanov, W. P. Groffith and R. L. Willis, Minerals from Macedonia VII. Raman spectra of sulfide minerals from the Alshar deposit (stibnite, realgar, orpiment and lorandite), Proceedings of the XVIIIth Confer. on Raman Spectroscopy, Ed. J. Mink, G. Jalsovszky and G. Keresztury, Budapest, Hungary, 2002 , p.931-932.
  • G. Jovanovski, B. Minceva-Sukarova, P. Makreski, B. Soptrajanov, W. P. Groffith and R. L. Willis, Minerals from Macedonia VIII. Raman spectra of some sulfide minerals from the localities in Eastern Macedonia, Proceedings of the XVIIIth Confer. on Raman Spectroscopy, Ed. J. Mink, G. Jalsovszky and G. Keresztury, Budapest, Hungary, 2002 , p.933-934.
  • B. Minceva-Sukarova, L. Andreeva, S. Akyuz and C. A. Koh, Vibrational spectra of the low frequency region in Hofmann type clathrates, Proc. of the 6th Intern. Conf. on Fundamental and Applied Aspects of Physical Chemistry, Vol. I, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 2002, p. 66-74.
  • B. Minceva-Sukarova, G. Jovanovski, P. Makreski, B. Soptrajanov, W. P. Griffith and I. Grzetic, Vibrational spectra of M’M’’’S2 type synthetic minerals (M’ = Tl or Ag, M’’’ = As or Sb), J. Mol. Struct. 651-653 (2003) 181-189.
  • S. Akyuz, M. Bakiler, L. Andreeva, B. Minceva-Sukarova, FT-IR spectroscopic investigation of Hofmann Td-type complexes of 2-, and 3-chloropyridine, J. Incl. Phen. and Macrocyclic Chem., 48 (2004) 25-29.
  • P. Makreski, G. Jovanovski, B. Minčeva-Šukarova, B. Šoptrajanov, A. Green, B. Engelen and I. Grzetic, Vibrational spectra of MI3MIIIS3 type synthetic minerals (MI = Tl or Ag and MIII = As or Sb), Vibrational Spectrosc., 35 (2004) 59-65.
  • B. Minčeva-Šukarova, M. Najdoski and M. Skenderovska, Micro-Raman and FT-infrared spectra of some inorganic pigments used in art works, XVIIIth Congress of the Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia, Extended Abstract,SSC-9, Ohrid, 2004
  • M. Skenderovska, B. Minčeva-Šukarova, FT-Infrared and micro-Raman spectra of automotive topcoats:I. Some acrylic automotive paints products of “Mobihel”, XVIIIth Congress of the Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia, Extended Abstract, SSC-10. Ohrid, 2004
  • B. Minceva-Sukarova, L. Cukovska, L. Andreeva, O. Grupce, M. Skenderovska, S. Mamucevska, Spectroscopic study of three pairs of Pigments from the frescoes dating from 17th and 19th century in “Sveta Bogorodica” church – Leshok, Macedonia, International workshop COST G8, Book of Abstracts, p.48-39, April 2005, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Last update: February 25, 2006 by Igor Kuzmanovski, Institute of Chemistry