Seva Rostovtsev

Seva Rostovtsev serves as Executive VP & Chief Technology Officer at FMC, headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Seva Rostovtsev, Ph.D. assumed the role of Vice President and Chief Technical Officer in April of 2023. In this role he oversees FMC’s global network of more than 800 scientists located in India, Brazil, France, Denmark and the Uni... ted States and their collective effort to cultivate FMC’s robust discovery and development pipelines. Previously, Seva served as FMC’s Director of Discovery Chemistry for Agricultural Solutions. Prior to FMC, he held research and technical leadership roles throughout DuPont beginning in 2003, including Process Chemistry and Engineering, Emerging Technologies and Fungicide Discovery Chemistry. He holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the Higher Chemical College in Moscow, Russia, a Master of Science in chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. As a post-doc in the Sharpless lab at The Scripps Research Institute, Seva was one of the co-inventors of copper-catalyzed Click Chemistry, which won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.Read More