Modern Chemistry & Applications

Alexander Kirillov

Alexander Kirillov
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Biography

Alexander Kirillov is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon (IST/UTL), Portugal. He graduated in Chemical Engineering (2001) from the Belarusian State Technological University, Belarus and earned his PhD in Chemistry (11.2006) from the IST/UTL (with Prof. A.J.L. Pombeiro), where he continued as a Post-doctoral Fellow (2007) and Senior Researcher (2008−2011, “Science 2007" program), before taking the current position.

Research Interest

Main research focuses on Coordination Chemistry, Crystal Engineering and Oxidation Catalysis with an emphasis on the following topics: (i) design of functional multinuclear metal complexes, coordination polymers and metal-organic frameworks, (ii) catalytic oxidative functionalization of alkanes and other substrates into derivatives with industrial significance, and (iii) synthetic and catalytic processes in aqueous media, hydrosoluble bioactive materials.