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Ekaterina Trushina is a researcher at the forefront of automated chemistry, self-driving laboratories, and AI-driven materials discovery. Her work focuses on revolutionizing how chemical research is conducted by integrating robotics, cloud computing, and machine learning into experimental workflows. Trushina's most impactful contribution — "Delocalized, Asynchronous, Closed-Loop Discovery of Organic Laser Emitters" (2024, 130 citations) — demonstrated how geographically distributed teams can collaborate through cloud-based platforms to autonomously discover novel organic laser emitters, a significant leap forward in materials science methodology. Her work on the ChemPU platform (2022, 95 citations) further established her reputation by digitizing and validating a database of 100 chemically diverse reactions, making automated organic synthesis a practical reality. More recently, her development of IvoryOS (2025) addresses a critical bottleneck in the field — software interoperability across self-driving laboratories — helping standardize autonomous experimentation infrastructure. With over 250 cumulative citations across her key publications, Trushina's research is shaping the next generation of accelerated scientific discovery, making her an influential voice in the emerging field of autonomous and closed-loop chemical research.