Dr Vladimir Golovko

Dr Vladimir Golovko is a senior lecturer at the Department of Chemistry, University of Canterbury (UC), Christchurch, NZ. His research is focused on precisely fabricated nanostructured materials for applications in heterogeneous catalysis. He joined UC from Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK, where he did his PhD in Organometallic Chemistry and was then a Postdoctoral Research Associate with Professor B F G Johnson, FRS. A native of Ukraine, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and a Degree of Specialist from the National Taras Shevchenko University of Kiev.

Research Interests

Theme 5: Nanostructured Materials for Applications in Catalysis.Nanostructured Materials for Applications in Catalysis (Golovko, Kemmitt, Brown(I), Johnston, Tilley, Telfer and others)
Theme 1 and 6 are also of interest.
Synthesis of metal clusters, metal and metal oxide colloids using solution-based methodology, with focus on control over morphology and chemical structure. Study of bio-molecule functionalized nanoparticles of metals and metal oxides as building blocks in hierarchical self-assembly. Use of nanoparticles as catalysts in fabrication of nanostructured materials and chemical catalytic processes under mild conditions.

Research Students

Baira Donoeva, PhD
Daniil Ovoshchnikov, PhD
Nei-Jin Ke, PhD
Sedigheh Ghadamgahi, PhD
Jan-Yves Ruzicka, PhD
David Anderson, PhD
Faridah Binti Abu Bakar, PhD
Rohul Hayat Bin Adnan, PhD