Valentine Ananikov received his Ph.D. in 1999, Habilitation in 2003, and in 2005 he became Laboratory Head of Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he was elected as a Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, in 2018 elected as a Member of European Academy (Academia Europaea) and in 2019 elected as Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences.

His research has been supported by grants of the President of Russia for young scientists (2004, 2007). He was a recipient of the Russian State Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Science and Technology (2004), an Award of the Science Support Foundation (2005), a Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2000), Liebig Lectureship from the German Chemical Society (2010), and Balandin Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Catalysis (2010).  He has been named Actively Cited Researcher – Russia by Thomson Reuters (2015). He was a recipient of the Organometallics Distinguished Author Award Lectureship by the American Chemical Society (2016), Hitachi High-Technologies Award in Appreciation for Novel Approaches and Outstanding Contributions to Setting New Standards for Electron Microscopy Applications in Chemistry (2016), Reaxys Award Russia (2019), Zelinsky Prize for outstanding achievements in organic chemistry (2020).

His educational activities include research laboratory at St. Petersburg State University and professorship at the Chemistry Department of Moscow State University.

Membership in Advisory and Editorail boards of several journals: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, JACS Au, Chemistry – A European Journal, Organometallics, Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis, OpenChemistry, ChemCatChem, Russian Chemical Reviews.

His scientific interests are focused on catalysis, organic synthesis, molecular complexity and transformations.

Web-site: http://AnanikovLab.ru