Summary
Vadim Kochergin is a licensed Professional Engineer and Ph.D. chemical engineer with over 35 years of experience translating laboratory separation science into commercial practice across sugar, sweetener, vitamin, water treatment, petrochemical and direct lithium extraction industries. As President of Amalgamated Research LLC he has grown a niche technology company into a profitable international supplier of industrial chromatography, ion exchange, fractal fluid distribution and mixing equipment deployed in more than 30 countries. His career blends hands-on unit operation expertise—chromatography, ion exchange, membrane filtration, crystallization and bulk solids handling—with program leadership, including management of a DOE-sponsored separations program and winning a competitive $17.2M NIFA USDA grant to convert energy cane and sweet sorghum into fuels and chemicals. Earlier academic leadership as a professor at LSU AgCenter included founding and directing the Louisiana Institute for Biofuels and Bioprocessing and securing multiple industry and federal grants. Known for turning complex separations into scalable industrial processes, he combines deep technical rigor with practical commercialization instincts and a track record of diversifying technology applications across sectors.
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Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering at Mendeleev Chemical Engineering University of Russia