Dr Svetlana Tretsiakova

Overview

Dr Svetlana Tretsiakova-McNally is a Senior Lecturer in Chemistry within Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment. She is a polymer/material chemist with more than 15 years of post-doctoral experience in organic, polymer and fire chemistries, and material science.

She had extensively studied fundamental physico-chemical phenomena and the mechanisms pertaining thermal/thermo-oxidative degradation/decomposition, flammability, flame retardation and fire chemistry of a wide range of polymers and composites. Svetlana’s research areas include:

• toxic chemicals in fire effluent
• synthesis of fire retardant polymers;
• novel bio-inspired fire retardants;
• ligno-cellulosic materials for environmental applications;
• wastewater treatment;
• removal of antibiotic residues and toxic elements from waters.

She publishes in the fields of polymer science, fire-safe polymeric materials, sustainable materials, colloid chemistry, and waste management.

Svetlana is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and serves on the committee of the RSC Northern Ireland Section.