Ana de Bettencourt-Dias in Chemforum

Ana de Bettencourt-Dias from the University of Nevada, Reno, USA will be the next Chemforum speaker, on Monday the 6^th of May, at 12:00 in VA2. 

Ana de Bettencourt-Dias graduated in Technological Chemistry from the University of Lisbon in 1993, and did her ‘Dr. rer. nat.’ (PhD equivalent) in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Cologne in 1997 with Prof. Thomas Kruck. She joined the group of Prof. Alan Balch at UC Davis in 1998 as a Gulbenkian postdoctoral fellow, and in 2001 she joined the faculty at Syracuse University and started her work on luminescent lanthanide ion complexes. She moved to the University of Nevada, Reno, as associate professor in 2007 and was promoted to professor in 2013.

Her research centers on problems related to energy efficiency, therapy, and diagnostics using tools of inorganic, organic and materials chemistry. She and her group are especially interested in light-emitting compounds and coordination chemistry of the f block of the periodic table.

She served on the editorial advisory board for Inorganic Chemistry from 2013 to 2015, has been on the editorial advisory board for Comments on Inorganic Chemistry since 2016, is a managing member of the editorial board of the Journal of Rare Earths since 2014, and has been on the editorial board of Inorganics since 2022. She was program chair of the 2011 and conference chair of the 2014 Rare Earth Research Conference, is program co-chair of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry for the national meetings of the American Chemical Society and was the 2019 Chair of the Division. She served as the Associate Vice President for Research at UNR from 2015 to 2019. She returned to being a full-time faculty in July 2019, and is now the Susan Magee & Gary Clemons Professor of Chemistry. She received the 2006 Science & Technology Award of the Technology Alliance of Central New York, is a 2021 Fellow of the American Chemical Society, and a 2022 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was named UNR Foundation Professor in 2022 and received the UNR Outstanding Researcher of the Year in 2023.