Films and Coatings

Chair:

Maryna Storozhenko

Dr. Sci., Head of the Department of International Relations and Technology Transfer / Leading Researcher of the Department of Surface Engineering and Protective Coatings at Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NAS of Ukraine
Public Relation Specialist at Frantsevich Ukrainian Materials Research Society, Ukraine

Maryna Storozhenko received Ph.D. in 2011 and Dr.Sc. in 2019, both in Materials Science from the Frantsevich Institute for Problems of Materials Science, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is the Head of the Department of International Relations and Technology Transfer and a Leading Researcher in the Department of Surface Engineering and Protective Coatings at the same institute. Since 2024, she has been delivering lectures and practical classes to Master students at Kyiv Academic University. Additionally, she serves as a Public Relations Specialist for the Ukrainian Materials Research Society at Frantsevich. In 2021, Maryna Storozhenko was awarded a Scholarship of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Young Doctors of Sciences. From 2022 to 2023, she worked as a scientist at the Austrian Excellence Centre for Tribology (AC2T). Her research primarily focuses on the development of metal-ceramic materials and protective coatings with enhanced wear and corrosion resistance.

Keynote speakers:

Oksana Bersirova

Dr.Sci., Leading Researcher at the Department of Electrochemical Materials Science and Electrocatalysis, V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, NAS of Ukraine
Principal Researcher at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences at Vilnius University, Lithuania

Oksana Bersirova received her Candidate of Science degree (2002) in electrochemistry from the V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, NAS of Ukraine, and her Doctor of Science degree (2011) in technical electrochemistry from the Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Dnipro. She is a Leading Researcher at the Department of Electrochemical Materials Science and Electrocatalysis, V.I. Vernadsky Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, NAS of Ukraine, and has actively participated in international research programs, including Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / MSCA4Ukraine and ERASMUS-Mundus at Vilnius University (Lithuania), the W. Mianowski Science Support Fund at Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), the European FP7 program INTAS at École Centrale Paris (France), as well as research activities at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway), among others.

Oksana Bersirova has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Boris Paton National Award (State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology) (2021), the A.I. Brodsky Prize of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (2018), the BMU Award – an International Award of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, and the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (2010). She has also been honoured with the Award of the President of Ukraine for outstanding achievements in science and technology at the Dr. Sci. level (2014). Additionally, she is a recognized expert and a member of AcademiaNet, a Swiss National Science Foundation database of outstanding female academics.
Her primary research focuses on developing theoretical foundations for controlling the electrochemical formation of functional deposits, particularly for silver, gold, and refractory metal alloys (W, Mo, Re) with iron-group metals (Fe, Co, Ni). Her work involves a comprehensive study of the discharge mechanisms of coordination ions with varying chemical properties and the identification of stable and sustainable electrodeposition conditions for functional metal and alloy coatings. Over the past 25 years, under her leadership and with her direct involvement, numerous advanced materials with unique functional properties have been developed and studied. Consequently, a scientifically grounded set of structural and technological methods has been established for producing competitive functional coatings for the modern aerospace, energy, and electronics industries.

Andreas Rosenkranz

Dr.-Ing., Prof., Professor for Materials-Oriented Tribology and New 2D Materials in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials,
University of Chile

Professor for Materials-Oriented Tribology and New 2D Materials in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, University of Chile The research of Prof. Andreas Rosenkranz focuses on the characterization, chemical functionalization, and application of new 2D materials. His main field of research relates to tribology, but in the last years, he has expanded his fields of interest towards water purification, catalysis, and biological properties. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed publication in well-known journals including Nature Reviews Materials, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano among others. He is a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and acts as a scientific editor for well-reputed scientific journals including MetalMat (Wiley), Journal of Tribology (ASME), Applied Nanoscience (Springer), Frontiers of Chemistry as well as Industrial Lubrication and Tribology (Emerald).

IX^th International Materials Science Conference HighMatTech-2025
October 6-10, 2025
Kyiv, Ukraine