Ratmir Derda's Biography

Ratmir Derda, Assistant Professor, University of Alberta

Ratmir Derda is an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at the University of Alberta. He received his B.Sci. in Physics and Biophysics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 2001 and Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, under the supervision of Laura L. Kiessling. From 2008 to 2011, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University working under the supervision of George M. Whitesides at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Donald E. Ingber, at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. His notable awards include Canadian Rising Star in Global Health award from Grand Challenges Canada (2011), National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Award in Synthetic Biology (2010), ACS Excellence in Graduate Polymer Science Research (2007) and Gold Medal at the XXIX International Chemistry Olympiad (1997).