Vladimir Golovko

Short Bio:

Vladimir Golovko graduated with a B.Sc. from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a Degree of Specialist in Chemistry from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv in 1996. He completed a PhD in Organometallic Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK. After earning a PhD in cluster chemistry at the University of Cambridge in 2003, he continued as a postdoc in the group of Professor Brian F.G. Johnson, FRS focusing on applications of clusters and metal nanoparticles in controlled nanofabrication and catalysis, contributing to multi-national grants such as the European Community FP5 and FP6 programs. He joined Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand as a Lecturer in 2007 (promoted to a Senior Lecturer in 2010 and Senior Lecturer above the bar in 2015). His research interests have strong emphasis on precise fabrication and detailed structural characterization of nanomaterials (metal colloids, gold and gold-containing atomically precise clusters, metal oxide nanostructures etc.), their applications in heterogeneous (electro/photo)catalysis and catalytic nanofabrication, sensors and bio-nanotechnology. Since 2002 he has published more than 60 papers in prestigious international journals (Nature, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemical Communications with his recent paper in the ACS Catalysis highlighted on the front cover in January 2015). His papers have attracted over 1780 citations (H-index 18 and H10-index 29). He is a member of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology as well as of the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies.