Lavinia Balan
Institut de Sciences des Matériaux de Mulhouse, CNRS, France
Biography
Lavinia Balan obtained her PhD degree from the University Henry Poincaré in Nancy, France (2005). Her PhD was devoted to the elaboration of an original material for the anode of Li-ion batteries. After a Post-doctorate in Orleans and then in Mulhouse, she joined the Department of Photochemistry (DPG) of Mulhouse in 2006, as a CNRS Senior Researcher. She opened a new field of research in this laboratory, viz. the photoassisted synthesis of metal nanoparticles and metal-polymer nanocomposite materials. Since December 2009, she joined the Institute of Materials Science of Mulhouse (IS2M) CNRS-UMR 7361. She has published more than 100 papers, four book chapters and five patents. She has been serving as an Editorial Board Member for few scientific journals.