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.