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Dr. Valeriia M. Ovdenko
PhD in Chemistry
Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Macromolecular compounds chemistry
Jouniour researcher


2020 – present — Assistant Lecturer, Department of High Molecular Compounds Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
2015–2019 — Engineer, later Junior Research Fellow, Research Laboratory “Information Media Based on Monomers and Polymers”.
2012–2015 — PhD student at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (supervisor: Prof. Oleksii Yu. Kolendo, DSc). PhD thesis: “Synthesis and investigation of new bis-azomethine methacrylates for optoelectronics”, successfully defended in 2018.
2006–2012 — Student of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Faculty of Chemistry, Department of High Molecular Compounds Chemistry). Master’s thesis: “Synthesis and study of the physicochemical properties of new nickel-bis(1,2-dithiolenes) complexes as acceptors for polymer systems applied in solar energy materials” (supervisors: Prof. Oleksii Yu. Kolendo, DSc, and Dr. Bénédicte Garreau de Bonneval). 

SCOPUS: 57192387618
ORCID: 0000-0002-4766-7473
WoS: G-7251-2017

Teaching Activities

Currently teaches the following courses:

• Photochemistry of organic compounds, monomers and photosensitive composites

• Chemistry of Macroolecular Compounds

• Special-Purpose Polymer Composites

• Methods for Structural Determination of Chemical Compounds and Materials

• Spectral Methods for the Investigation of Monomers and Polymers

• General Chemistry (Institute of Biology and Medicine)

International Research Internships 

Valeriia Ovdenko has completed three research internships in leading laboratories in France:

• 2012 — Coordination Chemistry Laboratory, Toulouse (Investigation of Ni complexes, electrochemical methods).

• 2013 — University of Angers (Synthesis of photo- and electroconductive azo compounds based on thiophene derivatives).

• 2019 — Coordination Chemistry Laboratory, Toulouse (design and synthesis of ferrocene-based photoactive azo compounds).

2014–2021 — Editor of the French-Ukrainian Journal of Chemistry.

Research Interests 

Design, synthesis, and comprehensive investigation of photoactive molecules and polymeric materials for applications in optoelectronics, nonlinear optics, and holography. The research focuses on the development of functional systems capable of changing their properties under light exposure and on establishing structure–property relationships governing photochemical behavior.

Key research directions include:

• Synthesis of photosensitive organic molecules (azo compounds, azomethines, etc.) and investigation of how structural variations (substituent effects, heterocyclic fragments, donor–acceptor modification) influence photochemical properties in solution and in thin films.

• Study of dual-photoactive molecular architectures, including the effect of introducing a second chromophore on the overall photochemical response.

• Design of photoactive monomers, their polymerization, and full characterization of the resulting polymers, including photochemical and thermal behavior, as well as kinetic parameters of polymerization.