Yurii Gun'ko

Yurii Gun'ko (Юрий Гунько), born in USSR, is a Belarusian scientist, professor of Inorganic Chemistry at School of Chemistry of Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), and head of the International Research and Education Centre for Physics of Nanostructures.

Education
Yurii Gun'ko graduated from Moscow State University in 1987. In 1990 he received Ph.D in Inorganic Chemistry degree from Moscow State University.

Publications
Yurii Gun'ko has over 268 publications in peer reviewed journals and 10 patents. His h-index is 51.

Research areas
Gun'ko has expertise in the areas of inorganic chemistry, science of materials and nanotechnology. His main research interests and activities include magnetic nanoparticles and magnetic fluids for MRI applications; metallasiloxanes; functionalisation of carbon nanotubes; and quantum dots for biomedical applications. The research focuses on the synthesis and characterisation of functional materials and nano-materials.