Dr. Anton Lytvynenko

Postdoc

ORCID: 0000-0001-5528-9989

Scopus Author ID: 26533068100

Web of Science ResearcherID: M-1462-2017


Affiliation:

Department of Analytical Chemistry, UNESCO Laboratory of Environmental Electrochemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 12800 Prague 2, Czech Republic

Email: lytvynean@natur.cuni.cz


Fields of expertise:

  • Electroanalytical determination of organic compounds on electrodes based on boron-doped diamond and porous/nanostructured metals.

  • Electrocatalytic degradation of persistent organic pollutants and their conversion to valuable functionalized chemicals.

  • Development of nanostructured electrodes for electrochemically driven fine organic synthesis in aqueous and non-aqueous media.

  • Polynuclear complexes and (porous) coordination polymers of 3d metals.

  • DFT modeling of electrochemical processes as well as properties of 3d metal complexes.


Publications:

27(Scopus)/26(WoS) papers in peer-reviewed indexed journals, 4 patents of Ukraine, abstracts of 40+ reports (including an invited presentation) on international and local conferences.

H-index = 10/9 (Scopus/WoS).


Supervision experience:

Supervisor of 2 Master and 2 Bachelor theses defended in Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.

Since 11.2023 – appointed as supervisor of Bachelor and Master theses at the Faculty of Chemistry, Charles University.


International cooperation:

Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland: Prof. Dr. habil. G.D.Sulka, Dr.habil. L.Zaraska, Dr. A. Brzózka.

L.V. Pisarzhevskii Institute of Physical Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine: Prof. Dr. habil. S. V. Kolotilov, Mgr. A. M. Mishura, Dr. M. M. Kurmach, Mgr. M. O. Ivanytsia.

V.M. Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine: Dr. V. O. Bohaienko.


Employment and positions:

03.2022 – present Postdoc: Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic)

01.2024 – present Postdoc: The Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Science (Prague, Czech Republic)

04.2017 – 02.2022 Research Scientist, Junior Research Scientist: L.V. Pisarzhevskii Institute of Physical Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

11.2014 – 03.2017 Leading Engineer, Engineer: L.V. Pisarzhevskii Institute of Physical Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Education:

2017 Received PhD (“Candidate of Science”) degree in Physical Chemistry from L.V. Pisarzhevskii Institute of Physical Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2011 Received MSc. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Chemical Faculty (Kyiv, Ukraine)

2009 Received BSc. degree in Inorganic Chemistry from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Chemical Faculty (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Stays abroad:

10.2019 – 11.2019 Postdoc: Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland)

10.2018 – 02.2019 Postdoc: Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland)


All activities before 03.2022 took place outside the Czech Republic.


Awards and stipends:

2019–2021 Stipend of the President of Ukraine for young scientists.

2019 Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for young scientists and students for the best scientific works.

2017–2019 Stipend of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for young scientists.

2017 Award of Ukrainian Parliament for the most talented young scientists in fundamental and applied research and scientific-technical developments (for year 2016, awarded in 2017).


Received Funding (supervision of a group of young researchers or personal grants):

2022–2023 Grant of the JUNIOR Fund of Charles University “Study of electrochemical and adsorption processes on sp3 carbon surfaces in relation to their physico-chemical characteristics”.

2020–2021 Joint Polish-Ukrainian project “Nanostructured nickel and palladium-containing composites based on anodic nanoporous alumina for selective catalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds” co-supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (contract numbers M/115-2020, M/110-2021).

2019–2020 Grant for scientific projects of young scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine “Composites of nanoporous copper foams and porous coordination polymers as heterogeneous catalysts of condensation and hydrogenation reactions” (contract numbers 69-09/06-2019 and 69-09/06-2020).

2019 Queen Jadwiga Scholarship from Jagiellonian University.

2019 President’s of Ukraine grant for support of the scientific studies of young scientists “Creation of novel composite materials on the base of nanostructured metal foams, modified by porous coordination polymers, for detection and remediation of halogen-containing organic pollutants” (contract number F82/227-2019).

2018 Visegrad Scholarship 2018 (contract number 51810453).

2018 Grant of State Fund for Fundamental Research of Ukraine “Creation of composites of nickel metal nanoparticles with chromium(III) porous coordination polymers for debenzylation of benzylamines and benzyl ethers” (contract number F83/91-2018).