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.

Eugenia Kumacheva did her postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Jacob Klein at the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel). She studied surface forces acting in thin confined films 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.

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 (Tier 1).

Eugenia Kumacheva spent her first sabbatical in 2002 in Harvard University with Professor George Whitesides. 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.