Prof. Maksym Kovalenko

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Maksym V. Kovalenko is a full professor of Functional Inorganic Materials at ETH Zurich. He studied chemistry at the Chernivtsi National University in Ukraine from 1999 to 2004. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Linz, Austria (2004–2007), and his postdoctoral training at the University of Chicago, USA (2008–2011). He then joined ETH Zurich as a tenure-track professor and was promoted to tenured associate professor in 2017, subsequently becoming a full professor in 2020. Currently, he serves as the head of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry. He is also affiliated with Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology).

The research activities of M. Kovalenko and his group focus on the chemistry, physics and applications of inorganic solid-state materials and nanostructures. In particular, present research efforts concern: (i) the precision synthesis of highly luminescent perovskite nanocrystals; (ii) nanocrystal surface chemistry; (iii) nanocrystal self-assembly; (iv) colloidal-QD-based quantum light sources; (v) novel semiconductors for hard radiation detection; (vi) electrochemical energy storage. To date, Maksym Kovalenko has published ca. 500 scientific articles and is listed as an inventor on 21 patents. He has been a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2018.