Elena V. Shevchenko
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Elena V. Shevchenko is a Belarusian and American nanoscientist whose research involves the synthesis of nanoparticles with controlled sizes and shapes, the design of nanoparticles with complex structures, and their self-assembly into nanoscale materials,[1] as well as the synthesis of nanoscale superlattices and colloidal nanocrystals.[2] She is a part-time professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, and a scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory.[3]
Shevchenko graduated from the Belarusian State University in Minsk in 1998. She continued her education at the University of Hamburg in Germany, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2003.[4]
Next, she became a postdoctoral researcher with a joint position at Columbia University and for IBM at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. She became a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2005, and moved to the Argonne National Laboratory in 2007.[4] She added an affiliation as a part-time professor at the University of Chicago in 2021.[2]