Principal Investigator
Contact Information
Dr. Anna Klinkova
Assistant Professor | Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo
After receiving her B.Sc. in chemistry from Saint Petersburg State University (Russia) and extensive experience in organic synthesis at SPBU Institute of Chemistry and at Leipzig University (Germany), Anna did her M.Sc. at the Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University (United States) studying semiconductor quantum dots for solar cells.
Anna received her Ph.D. in materials chemistry from the University of Toronto in 2015 where her research evolved around nanoparticle self-assembly, plasmonics, and catalysis. During her Ph.D., she was a visiting research scholar at Brookhaven National Lab (United States) and the University of Bayreuth (Germany). After graduation, she worked on carbon dioxide electroreduction catalysts at the UofT as a Connaught postdoctoral fellow.
She started her independent research career at the University of Waterloo in Fall 2017 as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry. Her current research interests include the synthesis, physical properties, and structural stability of nanoscale materials and their applications in sustainable chemistry.
Current Members
Dr. Jury Medvedev
Xenia Medvedeva
Amir Hemmati
Nyhenflore Delva
Helen Engelhardt
Taliesan Long
Former Members
Undergraduate Co-op and Project Students
Naqiyah Goolab (Co-op, 2022)
Gain Lee (Co-op, 2021-2022)
Helen Engelhardt (Co-op, 2020-2021)
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)
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
Feng Li | PhD in Chemistry (2022)
Thesis title: Multiscale Modelling of Structural Transformation in Metal Nanocatalysts for CO2 Electroreduction (full text)
Published papers: PCCP 2022, DOI: 10.1039/D2CP02846H (link); Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202209839 (link); PCCP 2022, 24, 19432 (link); Green Chem. 2022, 24, 1578 (link); Nanotechnology 2021, 33, 125203 (link); Nanoscale 2021, 13, 12505 (link); Nature Catal. 2021, 4, 479 (link); ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2019, 7, 19631 (link); Nanomaterials 2019, 9, 1445 (link); Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 10733 (link); PCCP 2019, 21, 5894 (link)
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Sinton Lab at the University of Toronto
Yulia Tobolovskaya | MSc in Chemistry (2022)
Thesis title: The Role of Carbonic Anhydrase in Promoting CO2 Capture and Operation of Bicarbonate-Fed Electrolyzers (full text)
Published papers: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202209839 (link); Green Chem. 2022, 24, 1578 (link)
Current position: Laboratory Technician at Polar Sapphire
Stephen Tatarchuk | MSc in Chemistry (2021)
Thesis title: Development of Cobalt-Doped Nickel Hydroxide Sol-Gel Catalysts for Enhanced Electro-Oxidation of Urea (full text)
Published papers: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202209839 (link); Green Chem. 2022, 24, 1578 (link); Chemosphere 2021, 279, 130550 (link); Green Chem. 2020, 22, 4456 (link)
Current position: PhD Student, Computational Electrochemistry Laboratory at the University of Guelph
Visiting and Part-time Researchers
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
Joshua Dembicky (Sep 2021 – Aug 2022)
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)
Interested in joining us?
If you are a talented and enthusiastic person and interested in joining our group, check out our careers page for current openings. We are an international and multicultural group where people from different parts of the world work in a cooperative and friendly environment.