Curriculum Vitae - Dr. Sergey Tin

Academic Education
09.2012 - 09.2016	University of St Andrews, UK. PhD in chemistry. Supervisor Professor Matthew L. Clarke. PhD in Chemistry on “Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Enamines”. The project was sponsored jointly by the department of chemistry of the University of St Andrews and Dr Reddy’s, UK, involving two short placements in Dr Reddy’s laboratories, Cambridge, UK
09.2007 - 06.2012	University of St Andrews, UK. MChem with external placement Second Upper MChem (Honours) with External Placement degree; studied Math for the first one and a half years with the first class results. Final year dissertation: “Importance of N,N-acetals in enamine synthesis” under supervision of Professor Matthew L. Clarke
09.2005 - 05.2007	IB diploma in Miras International school, Kazakhstan. IB diploma with 6/7 in Chemistry HL
Profession
since 10.2017	Group leader in Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany. Supervisor Professor Johannes G. de Vries Leading a research group of about 10 people under supervision of Prof. de Vries
02.2017 - 09.2017	Post-doc in Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Rostock, Germany. Supervisor Professor Johannes G. de Vries Catalytic polymerisation of renewable cyclic ethers (EU project, collaboration with Henkel)
09.2015 - 10.2015 09.2014 - 10.2014	Demonstrating in 3rd year undergraduate laboratory in University of St Andrews, UK
01.2014 - 04.2014 01.2013 - 04.2013	Demonstrating in 2nd year undergraduate laboratory in University of St Andrews, UK
07.2010 - 06.2011	Industrial Placement. Sasol Techology UK Ltd. Supervisor Dr Martin J. Hanton. Selective oligomerisation of ethylene, Ru-catalysed hydrogenation of esters
07.2011 - 09.2011 07.2009 - 09.2009	Two short-term summer projects. University of St Andrews, UK. Supervisor Professor David J. Cole-Hamilton. Ortho-alkylation of phenols, Hydroformylation of alkenes
09.2005 - 08.2007	Research project. University of Organic Catalysis and Electrochemistry D.V. Sokolskii, Kazakhstan. Supervisor Professor Alima Zharmagambetova. Part-time work. Research project “Biomimetic catalysis – partial oxidation of cyclohexane to cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol”