Olga Bakulina

Olga was born in 1992 and grew up near Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2016, she obtained her Ph.D. in organic chemistry at Saint Petersburg State University, developing novel synthetic approaches to peri-annulated azaheterocylic luminophores. Olga is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the same university in the laboratory of chemical pharmacology, headed by Prof. Mikhail Krasavin. Her research focuses on biomedical chemistry and the development of synthetic methodology for multicomponent reactions. In 2017, she was selected to represent Saint Petersburg State University at the 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.