About me
Liudmyla (Liuda) is the founder, CEO, and CSO of Scale Materials, an advanced materials company (based in Charlottesville, VA) that specializes in high-performance polymer coatings and polymer-based mineral capture media. Scale’s performance coatings reduce fuel usage in naval, commercial, and private maritime vessels by up to 50%. The company’s mineral capture systems harvest metals and rare earth elements from industrial waste and render the waste environmentally harmless. Liuda developed Scale’s core technology the “Scale Process” during her Ph.D. research at Vanderbilt University. This process allows the company to rapidly create new, industrial polymer products at a 90% reduction in time and materials.
Liuda's doctoral research focused primarily on the development of functional polymers for membranes, sensors, energy devices, and high-performance specialty coatings. She is an expert in nanotechnology, materials analysis, surface chemistry, and is also a metallurgist with a background in special alloys for aerospace applications. Liuda’s work has been published in respected scientific journals.
Liuda holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Materials Science from Vanderbilt University. She is a native of Ukraine and an honor graduate of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (KPI) with a BE and MS in Metallurgy.