Employee Profile

Name of employee:

Uliana Akhmetzyanova, MSc.

Summary Institutes/universities attend and attending:

• M.Sc. (Technology). Chemical engineering, Chemical Technology Faculty, Tver State Technical University, Tver, Russia, 2013
• M.Sc. (Technology). Process Chemistry, Department of Chemical Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, 2015
• Ph.D. student. Chemical Technology Faculty, Tver State Technical University, Tver, Russia, present

Your current job/employment/research:

• Junior Researcher at UniCRE
  Research interests involve catalytic conversion of readily available renewable biomass for energy generation using inexpensive and active catalysts.

Research carried out at UniCRE:

• conversion of fatty acids using transition metal nitrides, carbides and phosphides,
• hydroalkylation of phenols using bi-functional Pd-catalysts supported on dealuminated BEA zeolites.

Valuable skills and experience gained from working with UniCRE:

• analytical techniques of analysis: X-ray diffraction, X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy, Chemisorption, Physisorption, Chromatography, etc.
• preparation of catalytic materials.
• performance of heterogeneous catalytic reactions.
• working on projects.