The honoured worker of a science of the Russian Federation, the professor of statistical physics department Fedor M.Kuni works without interruptions in the St.-Petersburg State University for more than 50 years, since 1949 when he became a student of the College of Physics of LGU. Fedor M.Kuni is widely known expert in the molecular physics and physical chemistry of the phenomena at interfaces, in thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transitions. He did pioneer basic research in the theory of molecular correlations in liquids and surface layers (that work was awarded by the premium of the Leningrad University in 1971), in the thermodynamic theory of nucleation on charged centers, in the kinetic theory of homogeneous and heterogeneous condensation under most general conditions of dynamic creation of vapor supersaturation. Fedor M.Kuni has received fundamental results in the theory of nonisothermal condensation and has developed a method of solution of multi-dimensional kinetic equation of the phase transitions. The latter allowed him to describe in a systematic way cavitation, binary nucleation, break-down of solution supersaturated by gas. His investigation of condensation on macroscopical nuclei revealed the origin of existence of limiting value of vapor supersaturation and explained the influence on this value caused by adsorption, micellization and solubility of the substance of condensation nuclei.

Fedor M.Kuni is the author of over 270 scientific works and the book "Statistical physics and thermodynamics" published in 1981 by "Nauka" Publishing. He was awarded in 1978 by the Certificate of honour of the Leningrad University for high pedagogical skill and teaching the scientific staff. He was a scientific advisor for 24 candidate dissertations, six his former Ph.D. students became doctors of science, three former students are the heads of departments. Fedor Kuni was the organizer of the Statistical Physics Department at College of Physics of the Leningrad University in 1975. He was successfully the first Head of this Department for twenty years and works now as a professor of this Department. In 1994, the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Colloid Chemistry and Physico&chemical Mechanics included the scientific biografy of Fedor Kuni in the scientifically-biographic directory "Who is who in the field of interface phenomena and disperse systems". F.M.Kuni was nominated as Soros Professor.

Prof. Kuni continues his intensive and fruitful scientific activity. For last ten years, he published over 100 scientific works in the field of the theory of first order phase transitions and participate with 18 reports in 12 international conferences. In 1996 he has been awarded by premium of the International Academic Publishing Company "Nauka" for the best publication in journals of Russian Academy of Sciences. During five last years, F.M.Kuni was the principal investigator for four grants and the investigator for five more grants, including the grant of National Scientific Foundation of the USA.