Demyan Prokopchuk was born in Saskatoon, Canada. In 2009, he received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (High Honors) and Computer Science (Minor) from the University of Saskatchewan. In 2015, he completed his PhD at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Prof. Robert Morris, funded by provincial (OGS) and federal (NSERC) scholarships. During this time, he also spent 5 months at ETH Zürich in the laboratory of Prof. Hansjörg Grützmacher. From 2015-2017, Demyan was a postdoctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis, co-supervised by Dr. Morris Bullock and Dr. Michael Mock. After a postdoctoral fellowship (2017-2018) at the University of Calgary with Prof. Warren Piers, Demyan began his independent career in the Department of Chemistry at Rutgers-Newark in 2019. He currently receives funding through the National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER), US Department of Energy (DOE), and American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund (ACS-PRF).
Awards And Honors
2026 Sloan Research Fellow
2025-2030 National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2025 Rising Star in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, ACS Organic and Inorganic Au
2024 Emerging Investigator, Chemical Communications
2024 New Talent: Americas, Dalton Transactions
2024 Emerging Investigator in Inorganic Chemistry, Polyhedron
2016-2017 Outstanding Staff Award, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2014-2015 J. Warren Flanagan Ontario Graduate Scholarship
2010-2014 NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship
Email: demyan.prokopchuk [at] rutgers [dot] edu