Sustainable Chemistry &
Engineering Research Group
YEVGEN KARPICHEV
Yevgen Karpichev is a Leading Researcher in Sustainable Chemistry and a SUSCHEMENG research team leader at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia. He obtained his PhD in 2002 (Ukraine), followed by the Visiting Researcher mission at University of California, Santa Barbara (with Prof. C.A. Bunton), and a postdoctoral fellowship at Dalhousie University (Canada). He completed a CNRS Visiting Researcher at IECB (University of Bordeaux) and CNRS Laboratory of IMRCP (Toulouse).
Appointed as a Visiting Professor at Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse, France, 2009), University of Hradec Králové (Czech Republic, 2014), and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil, 2023).
Joined ERA Chair of Green Chemistry at Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) in 2015 and promoted to PI of the research team in 2019.
Research topics and accomplishments cover Green and Sustainable Chemistry, biomass valorisation and bioeconomy, medicinal chemistry, chemical decontamination, and material science.
Leading Researcher in Sustainable Chemistry
TalTech - Tallinn University of Technology, 2026 - Present
Senior Researcher at ERA Chair of Green Chemistry
TalTech - Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia), 2015 - 2026
Visiting Professorships
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio (Brazil), 2023
University of Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic), 2014
University of Toulouse - UPS (France), 2009
Senior Researcher
National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 2014 - 2016
L.M. Litvinenko Institute (Donetsk)- Institute of Organic Chemistry (Kyiv)
CNRS Visiting Researcher
IMRCP / University of Toulouse - UPS (France), 2009 - 2010
Research Associate
University of Bordeaux - European Institute of Chemistry and Biology (France), 2007 - 2008
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dalhousie University (Canada), 2006 - 2007
Visiting Researcher
University of California, Santa Barbara - UCSB (USA), 2004
Researcher
National Academy of Science of Ukraine, 1997 - 2006
L.M. Litvinenko Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry and Coal Chemistry
PhD in Organic Chemistry
Ukraine, 2002