Sviatoslav Baranets is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in 2015, and was a Postdoc at the University of Delaware (2018–2022). He served as an Adjunct Instructor of Chemistry and Physics at Lincoln University (2021–2022). He is also a member of the American Chemical Society. His group focuses on the discovery of novel heteroanionic semiconducting materials and Zintl cluster compounds for energy applications.