Projects: current and past: Participation in Grants as the co-coordinator

    RFFI (Project no 96-01-00893, "Mathematical modelling of key stages of anaerobic ecosystem functioning with biogas production", 1996-1998)

    INTAS (Project no 96-2045, "Methane production in low temperature environments", 1998-2000)

    NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant with Patras University (Project no EST.ClG 9750078, 1999- 2000)

    INCO-COPERNICUS-2 ( Project no ICA-2-CT-2001-10001), "Development of cost-effective biotechnological methods for abatement of      water pollution and mitigation of methane emissions from landfills in different climatic zones" (2002-2004)

    FULBRIGHT FOUNDATION Grant "Development of Efficient Degradation of Municipal Solid Wastes In Landfills" (2001-2002)

    The SWEDISH FOUNDATION for International Cooperation in Reasearch and Higher Education "A model description of phthalate degradation in landfills" (2004).

    The SPANISH MINISTRY of EDUCATION and SCIENCE (Project REN 2004-00724 "Contribution to the calibration of the ADM1, adapted to the co-digestion of agro-industrial wastes, using SBE method (simultaneous batch experiments)" (2005-2007)

Selected lectures presented recently:

   "Distributed Models of Solid Waste Anaerobic Digestion: Effect of Mass Transfer on Chemical Wave Propagation", Brandeis University, Waltham, USA, Feb 2001,

   "Simple and Structured Modelling of Anaerobic Digestion", Max-Plank-Institut for Terrestrial Microbiology, Marburg, Germany, Sep 2002,

   "Studying Solid Waste Decomposition, Focusing on 1-3D Distributed Models", Danish Technical University, Lyngby, Denmark, Apr 2002,

                                                                                                                              Lleida Agricultural University, Lleida, Spain, Sep 2003,

   "Degradation Mechanisms in Landfills: a Modelling Approach", Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden, Feb 2004,

   "Modelling of Environmental Biotechnology Processes" (a course of lectures), Jyvaskyla University, Jyvaskyla, Finland, Oct-Nov 2004.

   "Modelling of Environmental Biotechnology Processes" (a course of lectures), Tonju University, Shanghai, China, Nov 2005.

   "Modelling of Anaerobic Digestion of Solid Wastes", North Caroline State University (Raleigh); University of Central Florida (Orlando);

                                                                                   New Mexico State University (Las Cruces), USA, Nov 2006.

   "Simple and Structured Models of Anaerobic Digestion", Catalonia University, Barcelona, Spain, Nov 2007

   "Modelling Degradation Mechanism of Solid Waste: Chemical Reactions, Microbial Ecology and Isotope C13 Fractionation", Cemagref, Antony, France, Nov 2008

Email: vavilin@aqua.laser.ru