Dr. Ana Esther Mijovilovich

Staff. Responsible for X-ray Absorption (XAS) and X-ray Emission (XES) benchtop spectrometers.

Areas of expertise

X-ray spectroscopy and imaging, DFT

Contact

+49 2461/61-84660

E-Mail

Address

An der Deustchen Welle 7a. Jülich.52428.Germany

Institute for a sustainable Hydrogen Economy (IHE)

Building 30.08 / Room 3009

About me

I graduated as Doctor of Physics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1997 and went for a career in USA, Canada and Europe using Synchrotron X-ray nano/micro tomography and spectroscopies, and DFT to study small molecules. Last 7.5 years I was independent senior scientist at the Czech Academy of Sciences, doing Synchrotron X-ray studies and responsible for benchtop microXRF. At IHE-1 I am responsible for benchtop XAS/XES with a latest generation machine. Current interests are in X-rays, spectroscopy and machine learning applied to energy related fields of application.

Vita

Ana E. Mijovilovich

Born in Argentina.

Research scientist (Staff) at IHE-1. EMail: a.mijovilovich@fz-juelich.de

WOS ResearcherID C-4156-2011

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7889-3211

Education

2008.Negotiating and influencing skills for senior managers programme. London

Business School. UK.

2003, 2004: Grant writing training. CRLT. Univ. of Michigan, USA.

1997.Doctor in Physics. Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Argentina.

1990.Physics diploma. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Argentina.

Awards and memberships

Member of Czech Society of Experimental Plant Biology (CSEPB) 2022-2024.

European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) alumni.

Member of the Canadian chapter of Graduate Women International (GWI) 2010.

1992. Atomic Energy Agency of Argentina doctoral award: national competition.

1991. Certificate best female grades of the IFUW (International Federation of

University Women, now Graduate Women International GWI).

1990. Award CONICET- Balseiro: Solid State Physics: Superconductivity course.

1989. Advanced Students Scholarship. Award Univ. of Mar del Plata (diploma thesis).

1984. Banco Nacional de Desarrollo (National Bank for Development, Argentina), Mar del Plata, internship award, declined.

Relevant activities-last 5 years: Metal imaging and chemistry in plants with

synchrotron micro-/nano-tomography and micro-XANES. Developed MATLAB

quantitation of benchtop micro-XRF images. Synchrotron XRF fitting. Focus on

methods development. Wavelet analysis of lake sediment XRF profiles for

paleoclimate event dating (Younger dryas). Quantum chemistry (DFT). Elemental

analyses with benchtop microXRF (plants, sediments, etc).

Future focus: Machine learning for analysis of synchrotron and benchtop spectra.

COST (member): PLANTMETALS-19116 (2021-2024).

Conferences and talks (2007-2022): 7 orals; 1 keynote and 1 oral declined.

Reviewer: for the American Chemical Society (ACS): Inorganic Chemistry, Energy &

Fuels; for The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC): Dalton Transactions; for The Royal

Society: Royal Society Open Science; for the Society of Experimental Biology

(SEB): Journal of Experimental Botany; for Elsevier: Journal of Geochemical

Exploration, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Food Chemistry.

Publications

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