He has been professor of Imperial College London, UK, nuclear engineer of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), associate reader at the University of Sheffield, UK, leading scientist of Lomonosov Moscow State University and Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy and Geochemistry (IGEM) of Russian Academy of Sciences.
Ojovan, Michael was born on March 6, 1955 in Dynjeni, Ocnitsa, Moldovian SSR (USSR).
He is Chief Editor of journal “Science and Technology of Nuclear Installations”.
Michael has published 16 monographs including the “Handbook of Advanced Radioactive Waste Conditioning Technologies” and three editions of “An Introduction to Nuclear Waste Immobilisation” by Elsevier.
Michael is known for the connectivity-percolation theory (CPT) of glass transition, Douglas-Doremus-Ojovan (DDO) model of viscosity of glasses and melts, theoretical bases of condensed Rydberg matter (RM), metallic and glass-composite materials (GCM) for nuclear waste immobilisation, and self-sinking capsules to investigate Earth’ deep interior.