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Lisa Olshansky earned her B.S. in Chemistry from UC San Diego in 2009 and completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry from MIT in 2015. She was an NSF Graduate Research Presidential Fellow under the mentorship of Professors Daniel Nocera and JoAnne Stubbe. Later, she worked with Professor Andy Borovik at UC Irvine as an ACS Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2018, Lisa began her independent career as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on mimicking how biological systems utilize structural changes to interconvert forms of energy, such as converting binding energy or protein-protein interactions into chemical energy. She has received numerous awards in recognition of her contributions, including the NAS Kavli Fellow title, the Paul Saltman Young Investigator Award, and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. At Illinois, she initiated a program called C2 aimed at fostering inclusivity and diversity within the School of Chemical Sciences. Lisa's research encompasses bioinspired inorganic chemistry and the development of artificial metalloproteins that can undergo triggered conformational changes for applications in biomedical research and renewable energy.
University of Illinois • Urbana, IL
Conducting research on bioinspired inorganic chemistry and teaching.
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