Prof. Volodymyr A. Chernenko graduated Moscow State University in 1975. He has got his PhD degree in Chemical Physics from the same University in 1980. He has 35 years of research experience in centres in Ukraine, Germany, Japan, Italy, United States, France, Switzerland, Australia, Spain, Hong Kong and Russia. He is currently holding a permanent position as Ikerbasque Research Professor at BCMaterials & University of Basque Country. Professional interest is in solid state physics, physics of phase transitions in solids, magnetism, high pressure physics, functional materials, metallurgy and, in particular, focused on research and development of the multifunctional magnetic shape memory materials, magnetomechanics of martensites, thin films and nanotechnologies of the ferromagnetic martensitic materials. Author and co-author of 315 original papers in ISI scientific journals and book chapters with more than 6000 citations and h-index equal to 39. He is author of 14 patents. He is International Fellow Awardee of the Helmholtz Association (Germany) in 2014. He is world-wide known as one of the founders of the new research area “Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys” being organizer and/or invited speaker of many International conferences and symposia on this subject.

Conducting research at WRHI for me means getting mutual benefits from very successful collaboration of my group in Spain and Precision and Intelligence Laboratory of TITECH leaded by Prof. H. Hosoda sensei. The synergism of our joint efforts serves to further progress in the field of magnetic shape memory alloys and in advancing of fundamental and applied aspects of these materials. Our contribution
already counts many publication approaching to ten. Several invited talks at the international conferences were presented.

• The Ni-Mn-Ga ferromagnetic shape memory alloys

  The Ni-Mn-Ga ferromagnetic shape memory alloys have been developed by the group of V. A. Chernenko in the late of 80th which led to the discovery of magnetic shape memory effect (MSME) resulting in establishment of new interdisciplinary research field in the smart materials exhibiting martensitic transformation. Several new phenomena, such as (i) magnetic-field-induced superelasticity; (ii) twinning-strain-induced change of the magnetization in the ferromagnetic martensites, (iii) new postcritical state exhibiting a non-hysteretic giant superelasticity and (iv) martensite rejuvenation have been found in magnetic shape memory alloys (MSMAs) experimentally and explained theoretically.