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Diana grew up in Romania. She became interested in chemistry during her undergraduate studies at University of Richmond, where she worked with Prof. Bill Myers and Prof. Dean Harman (University of Virginia) to examine the reactivity of a tungsten dearomatization agent towards activating pyrroles. After receiving her BS in chemistry in 2012, she moved to Harvard University for her graduate studies with Prof. Ted Betley, exploring the electronic structure and reactivity of high-spin dipyrrinato iron complexes involved in C-H bond amination. Diana received her Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry in 2017 and then joined Prof. Chris Chang's lab as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation to investigate the role of copper as a signaling agent in biology.
She is interested in fundamentally understanding the correlation of electronic structure and reactivity of transition metal complexes. At Virginia Tech, her group combines synthetic inorganic, spectroscopic, and bioinorganic tools to tune and explore the reactivity of first-row transition metals. |
Virginia Tech
Department of Chemistry
Blacksburg, VA 24060
Department of Chemistry
Blacksburg, VA 24060