After earning her undergraduate degree (cum laude) from the Technical University in St. Petersburg,[8] she worked in industry for several years before beginning her Ph.D. research.

[8] Eugenia then worked as a staff scientist at the Moscow State University[9] before beginning her postdoctoral fellowship supported by Minerva Foundation with Professor Jacob Klein at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

[9] She then joined the research lab of Professor Mitch Winnik at the University of Toronto in Canada to study multicomponent polymer systems.

She explored the potential of microbubbles, a gas enclosed by a natural or synthetic polymer for both diagnostic and therapeutic applications such as targeted drug delivery and molecular imaging.

Eugenia Kumacheva's awards and honors include: "All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License."