Prof. USHAKOVA Elena

Elena Ushakova’s recent research interests focus on R&D of novel nanostructured materials for a wide spectrum of applications from biomedicine to photovoltaics. She also has many years of experience in optical spectroscopy, as absorption, luminescence, and circular dichroism, design of carbon nanomaterials, semiconductor quantum dots, and their hybrids with plasmonic nanoparticles and organic/inorganic matrices.

• Ph. D., Optics, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• M.S., Photonics and Optical Information Technology, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• B.S., Technical Physics, ITMO University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

• “L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women in Science” (2021)
• “Grant of the Russian President for Young Scientists” (2017-2018)

• Carbon Dots
• Chiral Nanomaterials
• Optical Spectroscopy