Biography:
Elena Ivanova studied Chemistry at the Sofia University (Bulgaria) and graduated as MS in 1999. She then joined the research group of Prof. K. Hadjiivanov at the Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IGIC-BAS). She received her PhD degree in 2004 at the same institution. After one year postdoctoral fellowship supervised by Dr F. Thibault-Starzyk at the Catalysis and Spectrochemistry Laboratory (LCS) (Caen, France), she obtained the position of an Associate Professor at the IGIC-BAS.
Title : Ni2+ and Ni+ counterions in MFI zeolite as single and multiple coordination sites for small molecules