Marina A. Petrukhina is Carla Rizzo Delray Professor of Chemistry at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She received BS/MS (Chemistry/ Radiochemistry, summa cum laude) and Ph.D. (Inorganic Chemistry) degrees from Lomonosov Moscow State University and spent several years working in the laboratory of Prof. F. A. Cotton at Texas A&M University. Since joining the chemistry faculty at the University at Albany in 2001, she received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2006, the President’s Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities in 2013, and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2014. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Bordeaux (2004, 2016), Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden (2008), University of Valencia (2016), IMDEA-Nano Institute in Madrid (2023), and University of Oxford (2023). In 2017, she was named the August-Wilhelm Scheer Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of TUM Institute for Advanced Study (Munich, Germany). She has published 240 original articles in refereed scientific journals, including 10 reviews, 2 book chapters, and 6 patents. Her research interests span from synthetic and structural inorganic chemistry of transition metal clusters and main group elements to coordination, organometallic and supramolecular chemistry of novel curved molecular nanographenes. She served as an Editor of the book “Fragments of Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes: Designed Synthesis, Unusual Reactions, and Coordination Chemistry” (John Wiley & Sons, NJ, 2012). She has been a Chair of the Fusion Research Conference “From Carbon-Rich Molecules to Carbon-Based Materials” in 2014, 2018, and 2023. She is a Board Member of the Commission on Crystallography of Materials (International Union of Crystallography) and an Editorial Advisory Board Member of the following journals: Inorganic Synthesis Inc., Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, RSC Materials Chemistry Frontiers, Chemistry – A European Journal and Chemistry Europe.

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