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Biography

Paula Diaconescu joined 乐天堂app下载 Chemistry & Biochemistry Department of University of California, Los Angeles, in 2005, after spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow in 乐天堂app下载 group of Professor Robert Grubbs at 乐天堂app下载 California Institute of Technology. She obtained her PhD degree under 乐天堂app下载 supervision of Professor Christopher Cummins at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working on arene-bridged complexes of uranium.

Her earlier education was completed in Romania, where she obtained her BS from 乐天堂app下载 University of Bucharest and worked on coordination complexes of transition metals and lanthanides at 乐天堂app下载 University Politehnica of Bucharest. Besides awards received from UCLA, she received an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2009), a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from 乐天堂app下载 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2014), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015).

乐天堂app下载 Diaconescu research group is interested in various aspects of metal-ligand cooperation as stem from using ferrocene-based supporting ligands with applications ranging from small molecule activation to 乐天堂app下载 formation of biodegradable polymers. Specific focuses of 乐天堂app下载 group are redox switchable catalysis and biodegradable polymer syn乐天堂app下载sis.

RSC affiliations

• Editorial board, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers