The Institute of Thermophysics was established in 1957 in Novosibirsk Scientific Center (Akademgorodok). Now the Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, being one of the leading centers of the heat transfer theory and physical hydrodynamics, is dealing with fundamental research in the following areas: Heat and mass transfer in single-phase systems (turbulent boundary layer, radiation and combined heat transfer, free-convection heat transfer, gas screens); Heat and mass transfer in systems with phase transformations (boiling, condensation, absorption) including those at cryogenic temperatures; Heat and mass transfer in dispersed systems (porous and grainy media, fluidized bed, swirl dispersed flows, and micro-dispersed systems); Hydrodynamic stability and turbulence (jets and wakes, coherent structures, turbulence models, near-wall turbulence, turbulent boundary layer, polymer additives); Vortex flows (swirl flow, vortex structures, Ranque's effect, vortices in superfluid helium); Multiphase flows (gas-liquid flow, film flow, gas-saturated boundary layer, spray flow); Wave dynamics (acoustics of two-phase media, nonlinear waves in dispersive media, waves in films, intrinsic waves, detonation); Dynamics of rarefied gases (non-equilibrium processes, clusters and fullerenes, laser ablation, discharge); Thermophysical properties of substances (fluorocarbons; solutions of salts, semiconductors, metals, and oxides; pure substances); Thermophysical foundations for the production of new materials (Chokhralski's method, jet plasmachemical method, high-temperature superconductive films); Modeling of thermophysical processes in heat power engineering (aerodynamics in chambers with complex geometry, combustion in a boundary layer, heat and mass transfer and combustion in a sonic field, combustion of a water-coal suspense, fluidized bed, circulating fluidized bed); Low-temperature plasma.