After earning a master's degree in Physical Chemistry from Moscow State University in 2012, I continued my scientific career as a PhD student at Chimie-ParisTech under the supervision of Prof. Kevin Ogle and Ass. Prof. Polina Volovitch. My project involved understanding the reactivity at metal/liquid interfaces under composite polymer coatings with nanocontainers containing corrosion inhibitors.Upon graduation in September 2015, I received a DAAD individual fellowship to continue my work at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH in Düsseldorf, Germany, where I studied the degradation mechanisms of metal/polymer interfaces. During this time, I put a significant effort into understanding of the degradation mechanisms of metal/polymer interfaces via Scanning Kelvin Probe and Local Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (in collaboration with LISE laboratory in Paris/France). These initial accomplishments of local electrochemical measurements motivated me to explore further the mechanistic behavior of metal interfaces at the nanoscale. I later earned a Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA-IF 2018) to work on developing state-of-the-art scanning nanopipet methods at the Warwick Electrochemistry and Interfaces Group at the University of Warwick, UK. I oriented my research work on the development and implementation of state-of-the-art scanning electrochemical cell microscopy (SECCM) and scanning ion conductance microscopy (SICM) for probing nanoscale entities on corroding interfaces. Later, I complemented my solid background in electrochemical methods with coupled in-situ spectroscopical investigations in Moltech-Anjou laboratory (University of Angers/France). As a recipient of the CNRS 2021 competition, I joined the Electron Transfer Reactivity and Surfaces team at ITODYS laboratory at Université Paris Cité in October 2021 to establish my own research direction. My current focus is on developing new state-of-the-art multi-microscopy methods that use advanced data processing and machine learning algorithms to screen, predict, and control the electrochemical activity of nanostructured interfaces.

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30/01/2023​