DFW Section of the ACS Chair-Elect 2021 Mihaela C. Stefan Mihaela C. Stefan received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania. She worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Matyjaszewski’s group at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2003. She also worked as a Research Scientist in Richard D. McCullough's group at Carnegie Mellon University on the synthesis of block copolymers containing semiconducting polythiophenes. She joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2007, and she is currently an Eugene McDermott Professor and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the School of Natural Science &Mathematics. She received the NSF Career Award in 2010, the NS&M Outstanding Teacher Award in 2009 and 2017, the Inclusive Teaching Diversity Award in 2012, the President’s Teaching Excellence Award in 2014, and the Provost’s Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring in 2015. Her research group is developing novel organic semiconductors for organic electronics, biodegradable and biocompatible polymers for drug delivery applications, and rare novel catalysts for polymerization of dienes and cyclic esters.
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At the University of Texas at Dallas, she supervised 32 graduate students and 21 Ph.D. students graduated with a Ph.D. under her supervision. She also mentored ~130 undergraduate students who worked on her research lab on various projects.
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Assistant Professor Gabriele Meloni received a NSF CAREER Award titled "Plasticity, Promiscuity, and Transport Mechanism in Transmembrane Metal Pumps".
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