Aleksandr V. Zhukhovitskiy

Aleksandr (Alex) V. Zhukhovitskiy was born in Dnipro, Ukraine and immigrated to the US at the age of 11. He completed his undergraduate studies in Chemistry, Mathematics, and the Integrated Science Program at Northwestern University, earning a joint BA/MS degree in Chemistry in 2011. From 2011 till 2016, Alex conducted doctoral research in the laboratory of Professor Jeremiah A. Johnson in the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and from 2016 till 2019, carried out postdoctoral research in Professor F. Dean Toste’s group in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2019, Alex started his research group in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is currently an Assistant Professor and William R. Kenan Jr. Faculty Fellow. Research in the Zhukhovitskiy group (www.zhukogroup.com) is focused on addressing fundamental challenges in polymer chemistry by implementing and advancing organic, inorganic, organometallic, and supramolecular chemistry methods. Applications of this research include polymer sustainability, tissue engineering, and solar energy capture and conversion.