MCFA Woman of the Month

a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship 2005-2007

She studied Chemistry at Moldova State University, Chisinau, in the Republic of Moldova, where she obtained M.S. in 1984. Then Svetlana did post-graduate studies in the Institute of Chemistry, Moldova Academy of Sciences. She received her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 1996 and in the same year she was awarded the First Class Prize of the Praesidium of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, awarded to the best young scientists, in recognition of her research work. After Svetlana obtained numerous travel grants from a variety of sources including the American Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society, the Swiss National Science Foundation, and the DAAD in order to carry out postdoctoral research in laboratories in the USA, UK, Switzerland and Germany. In 2005 Svetlana became Associate Professor in Inorganic Chemistry at Institute of Chemistry, Moldova Academy of Sciences. At the same year she was awarded a Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowship under FP6 and at the present time Svetlana is a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK, collaborating with Prof. Mike Ward.