Eugenia Kumacheva
Eugenia Kumacheva received her M.Sc. degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology
(now Technical University) in Saint Petersburg (Russia). She did her Ph.D. research in Physical Chemistry of
Polymers at the Institute of Physical Chemistry (Russian Academy of Science). After PhD defence, she joined the
Department of Chemistry at the Moscow State University.
2011 Distinguished Lecturer, The University of
Western Ontario, Canada
Research Fellowship
2009 Japan-Canada WISET lectureship, Royal
Society of Canada
2008 L'Oréal-UNESCO "Women in Science" Prize
(Laureate for North America)
2007 The 2007 E. Gordon Young Lecturer of
The Chemical
Institute of Canada
2007 Elected as Fellow to the Royal Society of
Canada (Canadian National Academy of
Science)
2006 Recipient of Canada Research Chair in
Advanced
Polymer Materials/ Tier 1
2005 Macromolecular Science and Engineering
CIC Award
2004 Clara Benson Award (CIC Award)
2003 Schlumberger Scholarship (Oxford
University,
UK)
2002 Recipient of Canada Research Chair in
Advanced
Polymer Materials/ Tier 2
2000 International Chorafas Foundation Award
1999 Premier Research Excellence Award
(Canada)
1994 Imperial College Visiting Fellowship (UK)
1992 Minerva Foundation Fellowship (Germany)
In 1991-1994 Eugenia Kumacheva was a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Professor Jacob Klein at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), where she studied surface forces in thin layers of simple liquids and polymers.
In 1995 she joined the group of Professor Mitchel Winnik in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, where she was involved in studies of morphology of multicomponent polymer systems.In 1996 Eugenia Kumacheva joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor. In 2005 she became a Full Professor.
She spent her first sabbatical in 2002 in Harvard University with Professor George Whitesides. She was Visiting Professor in Oxford University (2003), the University Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) (2006), Moscow State University (2009), the University of Cambridge (2010) and University of Bayreuth (Germany) (2011).
Eugenia Kumacheva serves on Advisory Boards in the Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology (Canada), Advanced Science Institute (RIKEN) (Japan) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (USA).
