Group
Spring 2025 (left to right: Katya Kazachek, Jinmeng Shi, Mukund Sharma, Yang Song, Anna Klinkova, Jury Medvedev, Alicia Hao, Yujie Liu, Nyhen Delva)
Current Group Members
Principal Investigator
DR. ANNA KLINKOVA
Associate Professor and University Research Chair
Education:
Postdoctoral Fellow, Prof. Ted Sargent, University of Toronto
Ph.D. (Polymers and Materials Chemistry), Prof. Eugenia Kumacheva, University of Toronto
M.Sc. (Photochemical Sciences), Prof. Mikhail Zamkov, Bowling Green State University
B.Sc. (Chemistry) Magna Cum Laude, Saint Petersburg State University
Senior Researcher
DR. JURY MEDVEDEV
Research Associate
Education:
Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry), Prof. V.A. Nikolaev, Saint Petersburg State University
B.Sc., M.Sc. (Chemistry), Saint Petersburg State University
Graduate Student Researchers
NYNENFLORE DELVA
PhD Student
Education:
B.Sc. (Biological Chemistry), University of Toronto
YUJIE LIU
MSc Student
Education:
B.Sc. (Chemistry), University of Waterloo and Shandong Normal University
MOSHITO LETHABO MOTHUPI
PhD Student
Education:
M.Sc. (Nanoscience and Chemistry), University of Johannesburg
MICHELLE STEPHANEK
MASc Student (ECE; co-supervised with Prof. Mustafa Yavuz)
Education:
B.Sc. (Chemical Physics), University of Waterloo
Undergraduate Student Researchers
EKATERINA KAZACHEK
MUKUND SHARMA
YANG SONG
ALICIA HAO
JINMENG SHI
Photo Archive 2018-2023
Former Members
Undergraduate Co-op and Project Students
Dhruv Shah (Co-op, 2024)
Melanie Bouzanne (Co-op, 2024)
Yujie Liu (CHEM494, 2023-2024)
Luke Sinka (Co-op, 2023)
Mark Ositashvili (Co-op, 2023)
Taliesan Long (Co-op, 2022-2023)
Naqiyah Goolab (Co-op, 2022)
Gain Lee (Co-op, 2021-2022)
Helen Engelhardt (Co-op, 2020-2024), now graduate student at Oxford
Skandan Chandrasekar (Co-op, 2020-2021)
Eliana Feygin (CHEM494, 2020-2021), now graduate student at MIT
Joshua Da Costa (CHEM494, 2020-2021), now quality lab technician at Nova Steel
Chuanhao Peng (CHEM494, 2020-2021), now graduate student at University of Alberta
Aurora Torrijos (CHEM494, 2020), now R&D scientist at Sheertex
Elena Smith (CHEM494, 2019-2020)
Jordan Lau (CHEM494, 2019-2020), now graduate student at University of Waterloo
Thomas Zienchuk (CHEM494, 2018-2019), now at Kinectrics
Jacob Rempel (Co-op, 2018), now graduate student at University of Toronto
Sahej Bakshi (CHEM494, 2017-2018), now senior specialist at Samsung
Graduate Students
Aliaksandra Radchanka, M.Sc. 2024, thesis title: Exploring Ruthenium Nanoparticles Geometric Complexity To Boost Kellogg Advanced Ammonia Process Through Confinement Effect, now PhD student at University of Ottawa
Xenia Medvedeva, Ph.D. 2023, thesis title: Electroorganic CO2 Fixation Via Paired Electrolysis and Nanoscale Electrocatalysts, now Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Waterloo
Yulia Tobolovskaya, M.Sc. 2022, thesis title: The role of carbonic anhydrase in promoting CO2 capture and operation of bicarbonate-fed electrolyzers, now PhD student at University of Toronto
Feng Li, Ph.D. 2022, thesis title: Multiscale Modelling of Structural Transformation in Metal Nanocatalysts for CO2 Electroreduction, now Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto
Stephen Tatarchuk, M.Sc. 2021, thesis title: Development of Cobalt-Doped Nickel Hydroxide Sol-Gel Catalysts for Enhanced Electro-Oxidation of Urea, now PhD student at University of Guelph
Visiting and Part-time Researchers
Yuri Jeon (visiting graduate student, Jan 2023 – Jun 2023), now a graduate student at Gyeonsang National University
Jeongeon Kim (visiting graduate student, Jan 2022 – Jun 2022), now a graduate student at Gyeonsang National University
Anastasia Dmitrieva (visiting graduate student, Dec 2021 – Mar 2022), now a graduate student at ITMO University
Maria Temnikova (visiting graduate student, Dec 2021 – Mar 2022), now a biotechnologist at SAMSON MED
Rachelle Choueiri (part-time postdoc, Jul 2019 – Dec 2019, Jun 2020 – Mar 2021), now postdoc at Computational Electrochemistry Laboratory, University of Guelph
Gudmundur Johannesson (part-time postdoc, Jun 2020 – Nov 2020), now self-employed/environmental consulting
Yulia Steksova (visiting graduate student, Jan 2020 – Mar 2020), now graduate student at ITMO University
Yixiang Zhang (co-supervised MASc student, Sep 2019 – May 2020), now engineer at Shanghai Hydrogen Propulsion Technology
Marion Bassin (intern, May 2019 – Aug 2019), now R&D scientist at BASF
Alex Maokhamphiou (intern, May 2019 – Aug 2019), now graduate student at Saint-Gobain Research Paris and University of Lyon 1
Evgeniia Khairullina (visiting graduate student, Jan 2018 – May 2018, Apr 2019 – Aug 2019), now research associate at Saint Petersburg State University
Ana Sousa-Castillo (visiting postdoc, Jul 2018 – Sep 2018), now postdoc at LMU Munich
Kseniia Mosina (visiting graduate student, Jun 2018 – Sep 2018), now at BIOCAD Pharmaceuticals
Aleksandra Vidyakina (visiting undergraduate researcher, Jul 2018 – Sep 2018), now graduate student at Saint Petersburg State University
Alexey Pogodaev (visiting undergraduate researcher, May 2018 – Aug 2018), now graduate student at Saint Petersburg State University
Andre Paradis (research assistant, Feb 2018 – Jul 2018), now at IDEX Material Processing Technologies.
Undergraduate Volunteers
Matthew Scarfo (May 2021 – Aug 2021)
Sarah Shakim (May 2021 – Aug 2021)
Vid Sharda (May 2021 – Aug 2021)
Prakriti Somani (May 2019 – Aug 2019)
Luca Leustean (May 2019 – Aug 2019), now application scientist at Angstrom Engineering
Eniko Zsoldos (May 2018 – Aug 2018), now graduate student at Dalhousie University
Amir Basiratnia (May 2018 – Aug 2018), now radiochemist technologist at Kinectrics
Yifan Yang (Feb 2018 – May 2018)