Taras Turiv

Taras Turiv currently serves as a Member of the Technical Staff at Covalent Metrology since July 2024. Prior to this role, Taras held multiple positions at SCiFi Foods from June 2019 to June 2024, including Associate Director and various scientist roles. Academic experience includes a tenure as a Graduate Research Assistant and Visiting Researcher at Kent State University from January 2015 to July 2020, focusing on experimental work with colloids in liquid crystals. Taras began research as a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Physics NASU from November 2010 to December 2014, specializing in liquid crystal physics. Additional experience at Kent State University as a Visiting Scientist involved work with POM, FCPM, high-speed CMOS cameras, and laser tweezers. Taras earned a Ph.D. and an MS in Chemical Physics, concentrating on Liquid Crystals, from Kent State University between 2015 and 2020, after obtaining a Master's Degree in the Physics of Solid State from Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in 2010.