Chemistry

Chemistry

Dr Vladimir Golovko

Position

Senior Lecturer

Principal Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology

Qualifications

PhD(Cantab), MRSC

Field of Study

Inorganic/Materials

Room

840

Contact Details

Telephone: +64 3 364 2442
Fax: +64 3 364 2110
Email: vladimir.golovko at canterbury.ac.nz

Scholarships

PhD Scholarship: Designer Nanocrystals for Enhanced Catalytic Functionality

We are looking for an excellent (1 or 2.1 class honours, strong MSc or equivalent), motivated student with a background in Inorganic/(Nano) Materials Chemistry and Catalysis. Read full details>>

GNS Sarah Beanland Memorial Scholarship

View full details at http://www.gns.cri.nz/Home/Careers/Scholarships/Sarah-Beanland-Memorial-Scholarship

Background

Dr Vladimir Golovko joins UC from Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK, where he did his PhD in Organometallic Chemistry and was then a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor B F G Johnson, FRS. A native of Ukraine, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a Degree of Specialist (equivalent to an M Phil) from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev, from which he also has qualifications as a teacher.

Educational Background

Research Interests

Research Group Members

PhD

David Philip Anderson
Jan-Yves Ruzicka

Visiting PhD

Wiradej Thongsuwan (1 April 2008 to 6 April 2009)

Hons

Jacqueline Knobloch

MSc

Part I: Ida Nuramdhani
Part II: Rui Xu (co-supervised with Professor Alison J Downard)

Group Photo 2008

Left to right:
Rui Xu (Masters student co-supervised with Professor Alison J Downard); David Philip Anderson (PhD student); Dr Vladimir B Golovko; Dr Robert Raja (visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Southampton, UK); Jan-Yves Ruzicka (Honours student); Henry Toombs-Ruane (Honours student co-supervised with Dr Andrew J Pratt); (Photo kindly taken by our visiting PhD student, Wiradej Thongsuwan)

Representative Publications