Sergei Kostjuk

Dr Sergei Kostjuk Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems of the Belarusian State University Leningradskaya St., 14 Minsk Belarus 220030 Email: kostjuks@bsu.by Biographical Sketch: Sergei Kostjuk, born in Kobrin, Belarus (1977), received his Ph.D. degree in polymer chemistry in 2002 from Belarusian State University. In 2002, he joined Research Institute for Physical Chemical Problems of the Belarusian State University as a Research Fellow (2002-2005) and then Senior Research Scientist (2005-2008). Since 2008 he is heading the laboratory of catalysis of polymerization processes in the same institute. From 2005, he has also spent several periods as invited scientist in the team of F. Ganachaud, in the Institut Charles Gerhardt, ENSCM (France). His research interests lie in the fields of polymer design and synthesis (cationic and anionic polymerization, metallocene catalysis).