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Invited Speaker: Eugenia Kumacheva

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Eugenia Kumacheva

Eugenia Kumacheva received her M.Sc. degree from the Institute of Chemical Technology (now Technical University) in Saint Petersburg (Russia).  She conducted her Ph.D. research in Physical Chemistry of Polymers at the Institute of Physical Chemistry (Russian Academy of Science). After her PhD defence, she joined the Department of Chemistry at the Moscow State University.

In 1991-1994 Eugenia Kumacheva worked as 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.

Eugenia Kumacheva became an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto in 1996, and in 2001, an Associate Professor. In 2005 Eugenia Kumacheva became a Full Professor.  She spent her first sabbatical in 2002 in Harvard University with Professor George Whitesides. She was a Visiting Professor in Oxford University (2003) and the University Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg) (2006).  Today, she holds the Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials.  Her research interests include:   polymers at surfaces and interfaces, advanced polymer materials, convection in polymeric and polymerizable fluids, the morphology of multicomponent polymer systems, and polymers and microfluidics.

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