Victoria Nikitina

Biography

M.S. Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University Ph.D.  Electrochemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University Victoria received her Master’s degree from Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) in 2010 where she also defended a Candidate of Science degree in 2013. During her postgraduate studies Victoria specialized in molecular level description of heterogeneous electron transfer in different ionic and molecular media. Prof. Galina Tsirlina, MSU, and Prof. Renat Nazmutdinov, Kazan Technological University, supervised her research. Victoria developed an approach for the prediction of the rate constant values for simple one-electron heterogeneous electron transfer reactions in molecular and ionic liquids in the framework of modern quantum-mechanical theory of electron transfer in polar solvents. She took part in multidisciplinary collaborations with Prof. R. Buchner, Regensburg University, as a DAAD scholarship holder and Prof. Th. Wandlowski, Bern University, as an exchange Ph.D. student. At that time she focused her research on the investigation of dielectric behavior of solutions of inorganic solutes in room-temperature ionic liquids and electron transfer through alkanethiol monolayers on gold in ionic liquids. In 2014, Victoria started working at MSU on the intercalation of alkali metals into iron selenides and tellurides to explore the dependence of superconductive behavior on the amount of intercalated cations. Research area: Electrochemical reactions of lithium- & sodium ion battery materials and electrolytes

Research Interest

Solvent and cation effect on the intercalation reaction kinetics Oxygen evolution and oxygen reduction reactions at new transition metal oxide catalysts