Andrei Petoukhov

Dr. Andrei V. Petukhov is an Associate Professor at the Van 't Hoff Laboratory for Physical and Colloid Chemistry within Utrecht University's Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science. He holds a part-time associate professor position at Eindhoven University of Technology since 2016. As a leading expert in synchrotron-based X-ray techniques, he serves as Editor-in-Chief of MDPI journal Materials' Advanced Nanomaterials section and chairs the beamtime allocation panel at ESRF.

• Founded and chairs International Advisory Council at Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (until 2022 resignation)
• Developed XFEL pump-probe methodology for studying extreme irradiation conditions
• Created microradian SAXS setups for nanoscale structural analysis

His research focuses on colloidal self-organization across multiple length scales, using both nonspherical colloids and external field manipulations. Key themes include:

• Entropic patchiness in crowded suspensions
• Magnetic field control of anisotropic colloids
• Confinement effects in droplet-based assembly
• Phase transitions in colloidal crystals

His group performs in situ X-ray scattering experiments at prestigious facilities like ID10 beamline and BM-26 DUBBLE, with notable methodological contributions to:

• X-ray cross-correlation analysis
• Coherent diffraction imaging
• Advanced colloidal crystallography