Eugenia Kumacheva, Professor from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto, was invited to give a lecture at the CIAC on September 14, 2011.

Before this lecture entitled “Self-Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles: Learning from Polymer Physics and Chemistry” started, Prof. Kumacheva expressed her thanks to her colleague, Dr. Zhihong NIE, Who received his MS from the CIAC. “He was one of the best students when he studied at the University of Toronto, and he is also a good colleague, of course a good scientist.” She said.

Prof. 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). She then worked in the Department of Chemistry at the Moscow State University where she was involved in studies of the stabilization of colloid systems with polymers. In 1996 Eugenia Kumacheva became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto and in 2005 she was promoted to the rank of Full Professor. Currently she is a Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials. She was also Visiting professor in Oxford University (2003), Université Louis Pasteur (2006) and the University of Cambridge (2010). Her most recent awards include Killam Research Fellowship (2010), Japan-Canada WISET lectureship (2009), L'Oréal-UNESCO "Women in Science" Prize (2008) and the Fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada.

(Prof. Kumacheva)