Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation (CCRI), Department of Chemistry, the University of Ottawa

Adjunct Professor of Chemistry

Adjunct member, Graduate Faculty, Department of Chemistry, the University of Memphis

NSERC Postdoctoral fellow (2002-2006) Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
Ph.D. (2002) York University
M.Sc. (1997), B.Sc. (1995) cum laude Moscow State University

Governor General of Canada's Gold Medal (2002) for Academic Excellence

Member of American Chemical Society (ACS) and Chemical Society for Chemistry (CSC)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• Quantum chemistry (ab initio, DFT and semiempirical methods)
• Molecular orbital theory and its applications to predict physical and chemical properties of species
• Spectroscopic methods and electrochemistry
• Coordination chemistry, bio-inorganic chemistry and organometallic chemistry
• Catalysis using transition metal complexes
• Magnetochemistry and studies of polynuclear transition-metal complexes

RESEARCH GROUP:

• Tony St-Jacques (4th year undergraduate student)

Applications from 4th year undergraduate students for research projects are welcome!

RESEARCH COLLABORATORS from uOttawa:

• Illimar Altosaar, Biochemistry Microbiology & Immunology Department, Faculty of Medicine
• R. Tom Baker, CCRI, Department of Chemistry
• André Beauchemin, CCRI, Department of Chemistry
• Maxim Berezovski, Department of Chemistry
• Christian Detellier, CCRI, Department of Chemistry
• Deryn Fogg, CCRI, Department of Chemistry
• Sandro Gambarotta, CCRI, Department of Chemistry
• Muralee Murugesu, CCRI, Department of Chemistry
• Darrin Richeson, CCRI, Department of Chemistry
• Tito Scaiano, CCRI, Department of Chemistry
• Tom Woo, CCRI, Department of Chemistry

RESEARCH COLLABORATORS (external):

• Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay, Department of Chemistry, Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, Howrah, India
• Frédéric-Georges Fontaine, Département de Chimie, Université Laval (Québec)
• Eugenio Garribba, Dipartimento di Chimica and Centro Interdisciplinare per lo Sviluppo della Ricerca Biotecnologica e per lo Studio della Biodiversità della Sardegna, Università di Sassari, Sassari (Italy)
• V. Yu. Kotov, Moscow City Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia
• Martin Lemaire, Department of Chemistry, Brock University
• Edward Solomon, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University