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Olena Zenkina
PhD

Pronouns: She/Her

Professor

Chemistry and Materials
Faculty of Science

Dr. Zenkina's research group is a chemistry materials group focused on the creation of a wide range of stimuli-responsive smart nanomaterials that were so far applied for the development of electrochromic devices, devices for energy storage, molecular- and metal ion sensors, and protein receptors as biosensors.



  • PhD - Chemistry Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  • MEng - Master of Chemical Engineering National Technical University “Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute”, Faculty of Technology of Organic Substances, Kharkiv, Ukraine
See full publication list here: http://bit.ly/ovzenkina.

2024 Research Excellence Award – Mid-Career Researcher Category

Ontario Tech

CNC/IUPAC Travel Award

Chemical Institute of Canada

2020 Travel Award of Canadian National Committee for the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry

Chemical Institute of Canada

2020 Emerging Materials Chemistry Investigators Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition Lecture Award

Chemical Institute of Canada