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2020 Award Winners
Congratulations to the two winners of the 2020 CNC-IUPAC Travel Awards:
Prof. Zachary M. Hudson, University of British Columbia (48th World Polymer Congress-IUPAC-MACRO2020 in Jeju, Korea. July 2020)
Dr. Zachary M. Hudson is an Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Chemistry at the University of British Columbia. Zac was born in Ottawa, and completed his B.Sc. at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He remained at Queen's to pursue a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry under the supervision of Prof. Suning Wang, focusing on the development of luminescent materials for organic electronics. During his Ph.D. he also held graduate fellowships at Jilin University in China as well as Nagoya University in Japan. He then moved to the University of Bristol as a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Ian Manners, followed by a second Postdoctoral Fellowship at the California Nanosystems Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara with Prof. Craig Hawker. His research program develops optoelectronic materials for applications in display technology, two-photon fluorescence, and biological imaging, and has recently begun investigating compostable plastics for sustainable single-use packaging.
With the support of the 2020 CNC-IUPAC Travel Award Zac will attend the 48th World Polymer Congress -IUPAC-MACRO2020 to be held this upcoming July 2020 in Jeju, Korea.
Prof. Olena Zenkina, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (44th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry-ICCC 2020 in Rimini, Italy. July 2020)
Olena Zenkina's research expertise spans inorganic materials, organometallics and surface science. She studied chemical engineering at NTU"KPI", Kharkiv, Ukraine. After graduation, she joined the group of Dr. Milko van der Boom in the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. There she was working on her Ph.D. in chemistry exploring d10 metals ring-walking over ?-conjugated systems. Later she accepted a postdoctoral position in the group of Dr. Cathleen Crudden at Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. In this role, Dr. Zenkina was working on several projects including the discovery of single-crystal to single-crystal transformations, development of novel oxygen sensors, and carbene self-assembled monolayers formation of gold surfaces. In 2014, Dr. Zenkina accepted a position at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, Canada as an Assistant Professor and promoted to Associate Professor in 2019.
Her current research interests are focused on the creation of well-defined architectures on various surface supports for modern electronics, including bendable and wearable systems; design and fabrication of smart materials for energy storage, selective molecular sensors, and unique heavy-metal uptake systems. Dr. Zenkina develops methodologies of self-directed solution-based deposition of well-defined organic compounds and their ability to selectively coordinate metal ions that have led to the range of functional materials with a high degree of order and structural control at the molecular level. These materials find widespread applications in electro-optic modulators, display technology, solar cells, and sensors.
With the support of the CNC/IUPAC travel award, Dr. Zenkina will attend the 44th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry-ICCC 2020 that will be held in July 2020 in Rimini, Italy. Dr. Zenkina will present research of her group on coordination-based multicolor monolayer electrochromic materials with ultra-high durability and coloration efficiencies.
