Dr. Vasylyna Kirianchuk from Lviv Polytechnic National University joins our group in February to work for about 5 months as Visiting Short-Term Scholar.
Vasylyna recently got her PhD in Macromolecular Science from her home institution National University Lviv Polytechnic, Lviv, Ukraine. This is Vasylyna’s 4th visit to NDSU, she has been working at CPM (Voronov’s group) in 2016-2018. Her current research project at NDSU relates to studying chain copolymerization of plant oil-based acrylic monomers and various biobased counterparts with a goal of testing resulted copolymers feasibility for applications related to plant oil-based adhesives.