Dmitry Volodkin
Nottingham Trent University, UK
Biography
Dmitry Volodkin holds a position of Reader in Materials at Nottingham Trent University (UK) and Heads the group Active Bio-Coatings. He has studied Chemistry at the Lomonosov Moscow State University and further obtained PhD in 2005. Research stays brought him to University of Strasbourg, France and Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces; Technical University of Berlin; Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology in Germany. His research activities are focused on design of advanced stimuli-responsive biomaterials for applications in tissue engineering, diagnostics, toxicology, drug delivery. His group engineer self-assembled polymer based 2D and 3D structures with tailor-made properties: multilayer films, microcapsules and beads, liposome-polymer composites, polymeric scaffolds, etc. He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles/books and received a number of prestigious scientific awards such as Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Richard-Zsigmondy Price of German Colloid Society, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.