Dr. Anastasiia Mikhalchan

Dr. Anastasiia Mikhalchan

anastasiia.mikhalchan@imdea.org

Biography

Anastasiia joined IMDEA Materials Institute as a Marie Curie Research Associate in 2018 to work on the development of composites reinforced with CNT yarns with improved mechanical performance and multifunctional capabilities. Since June 2021, she is a Senior Research Associate at the Multifunctional Nanocomposites Group, and works on the development of CNT fibres and fabrics and their implementation in novel materials for aerospace, automotive and other applications. Having engineering background and PhD in processing of polymers, fibres and composites, Anastasiia continues her research on CNT ensembles for more than a decade by now in collaboration with top-rank academic and industrial partners. Prior to joining IMDEA, she worked at the University of Cambridge in 2014 as a Research Associate awarded her 1st Marie Curie “Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways” Fellowship, and later as a Research Fellow under the Strategic Funding “Centre for Composite Engineering and Research” at the National University of Singapore in 2015 -2017. While in Singapore, Anastasiia has been actively involved and led interdisciplinary collaborative projects with the Singapore Synchrotron Light Source and the Polish Academy of Sciences to demonstrate the applicability of AFM-IR spectroscopy for nanoscale analysis and visualization of CNT fibre-reinforced nanocomposites. She is a frequent user of ALBA synchrotron in Barcelona, Spain, and from 2021 collaborates with CERN on using carbon nanomaterials for beam instrumentation and quality control, analysing interactions of CNT macromaterials with the higher luminosity beams. Anastasiia has passed several courses on Intellectual property management, including DL-101 organized by World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and IP Panorama within the framework of the Advanced International Certificate Course organized by the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), Korea Invention Promotion Association (KIPA), and KAIST jointly with WIPO.

Academic Career

  • 2021 – Present – Senior Research Associate, Multifunctional Nanocomposite Group, IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain.
  • 2018 – 2021 – Research Associate, Multifunctional Nanocomposite Group, IMDEA Materials Institute, Spain.
  • 2015 – 2017 – Research Fellow, Applied Mechanics Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
  • 2014 – Research Associate, Macromolecular Materials Group, Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
  • 2010 – 2012 – Research Associate and Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Ecology, SUTD, Russia.
  • 2008 – 2011 – PhD in Technology and processing of polymers and composites, SUTD, Russia.

Selected Conferences

  1.  2023 – Low-Denisty Materials Workshop organized by CERN, Geneva, Switzerland (talk, member of the event’s Scientific Committee).
  2. 2023 – The 23rd International Conference on the Science & Applications of Nanotubes and Low-Dimensional Materials, Arcachon, Bordeaux, France.
  3. 2022 – 12th EASN International Conference on “Innovation in Aviation & Space for opening New Horizons”, Barcelona, Spain (talk)
  4. 2022 – International meeting on the chemistry of graphene and carbon nanotubes (ChemOnTubes 2022), Donostia – San Sebastián, Spain (talk)
  5. 2019 – International CARBON Conference, Lexington, Bluegrass, KY, USA (Keynote talk; Session chair for “Nanocarbon – based fibers and composites”)
  6. 2019 – Women in Composites Leadership Forum (ICCM22), Melbourne, Australia (atendee)
  7. 2019 – 22nd International Conference on Composites Materials (ICCM22), Melbourne, Australia (talk)
  8. 2018 – 1st International Workshop on Multi-functional Nanocarbon Fibres, Madrid, Spain (talk).
  9. 2017 – 7th International Conference on Carbon NanoParticle Based Composites (CNPComp2017), Special Symposium “Nanocarbon Based Composites”, the Europe Africa Conference of the POLYMER PROCESSING SOCIETY, Dresden, Germany (talk).
  10. 2017 – Singapore Synchrotron Light Source centre workshop “Dive into nano-world using infrared light at the ISMI beamline”, Singapore (talk).
  11. 2016 – Advances in Mechanics @NUS Workshop (AiM@NUS), Singapore (talk, member of the Organizing Committee).
  12. 2015 – South-East Asia-Japan Conference on Composite Materials (SEAJCCM’15), Singapore (talk).

Awards/Accomplishments

  1. 2018 – 2020 – HORIZON 2020 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, IMDEA Materials, Spain.
  2. 2013 – FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie Action “Industry-Academia Partnerships and Pathways” Fellowship, University of Cambridge, UK.
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