Eugenia Kumacheva - Curriculum Vitae#
EMPLOYMENT
- 2013 - present University Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- Cross-appointments: Depts. of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
- 2020 - 2025 Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- 2006-2020 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials (Tier 1)
- 2011 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Polymer Science, Univ. of Bayreuth
- 2010 Visiting Professor, Cavendish Laboratory, Dept. of Physics, University of Cambridge
- 2009 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Physics, Moscow State University
- 2005 - 2013 Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- 2005 Visiting Professor, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasburg
- 2001 - 2005 Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- 2003 Visiting Scholar, University of Oxford
- 2002 Visiting Professor, Harvard University
- 2002 - 2006 Canada Research Chair in Advanced Polymer Materials (Tier 2)
- 1996 - 2001 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- 1995 - 1996 Postdoctoral fellow, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- 1993 - 1994 Research Associate, Dept. of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1991 - 1993 Postdoctoral Fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science
- 1985 - 1990 Staff Scientist, Moscow State University
- 1979 - 1981 Engineer, Organic Coatings Corporation
MENTORSHIP
- Graduate students: 76
- Undergraduate Students: 57
- Postdocs: 63
- 25% of former HQP hold academic positions
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 2018 - present International Soft Matter Group, IUPAC
- 2014 - 2022 Synthetic Chemistry&Materials Science ERC panel,
- 2013 - present Member of the International Jury, L’Oreal-UNESCO “Women in Science” Prize
- 2018 - present Ambassador of Nature Research Awards for Women in Science
- 2017 - 2019 New Fellows Committee (Royal Society)
- Advisory boards: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Leibnitz Institute, Freiburg Inst. for Advanced Studies (all Germany), RIKEN Inst. (Japan), Flanders Foundation (Belgium), Brookhaven National Lab&The Triangle Materials Science Center
- Review Panels: US, UK, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Germany, Israel Science Foundations
- Editorial boards: Polymer Bull. (Editor-in-Chief, 2008-2010), Soft Matter, J. Polym. Coll. Sci., J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2016-present Associate Editor, Science Advances
