Professor Dr. Dmitri Talapin

Biography

Dmitri Talapin is the Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. Born in the USSR and raised in Belarus, he obtained his doctorate degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany in 2002. Subsequently, he pursued postdoctoral work at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center from 2005 to 2007 and served as a staff scientist at the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago in 2007. His research focuses on inorganic nanomaterials and includes interests in synthetic methodology, self-organization, charge transport, and device applications. Talapin has received several accolades, including the ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award and the Materials Research Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award. He was recognized as one of the Top 100 chemists of the decade based on citation impact by Thompson Reuters and awarded the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. In 2014, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and was elected as a Fellow of the Materials Research Society in 2024. Talapin also serves as an Associate Editor for 'Chemical Science', published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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