Simona Hunyadi Murph is a Romanian-American

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Savannah River National Laboratory The Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) is a multi-program national laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management. SRNL is located at the Savannah River Site (SRS) near Jackson, South Carolina. It ...

( Aiken,

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), and she is an adjunct professor in the

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

and

astronomy Astronomy () is a natural science that studies astronomical object, celestial objects and phenomena. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and chronology of the Universe, evolution. Objects of interest ...

department at the

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(in

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Biography

Early life

As a young child, Simona was inspired to study

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both by her mother's elaborate Romanian cooking and by scientist

Marie Curie Marie Salomea Skłodowska–Curie ( , , ; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, ; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first ...

's life.

Education

She received her

Bachelor of Science A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

Chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

in 1995 from

Babeș-Bolyai University The Babeș-Bolyai University ( ro, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai , hu, Babeș-Bolyai Tudományegyetem, commonly known as UBB) is a public research university located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. UBB has a long academic tradition, started by Universitas ...

, in

Cluj-Napoca ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = Counties of Romania, County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Subdivisions of Romania, Status , subdivision_name2 ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

. Directly after, she went on for her

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in Chemistry/

Electrochemistry Electrochemistry is the branch of physical chemistry concerned with the relationship between electrical potential difference, as a measurable and quantitative phenomenon, and identifiable chemical change, with the potential difference as an outco ...

at the same university, graduating in 1996. In 2007, Murph obtained her

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degree in Chemistry/

Nanotechnology Nanotechnology, also shortened to nanotech, is the use of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale for industrial purposes. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal o ...

at the University of South Carolina (in Columbia, SC). In 2012, she went further to earn her

Education Specialist The Education Specialist, also referred to as Educational Specialist or Specialist in Education (Ed.S. or S.Ed.), is a specialist degree in education and terminal professional degree in the U.S. that is designed to provide knowledge and theory in t ...

degree in Educational Leadership & Administration at

Augusta University Augusta University (AU) is a public research university and academic medical center in Augusta, Georgia. It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite medical campuses in Savannah, Albany, Rome, and Athens. It employs over ...

(in Augusta, GA).

Career

Simona Murph has worked in a number of capacities at universities. She has also inspired others at Savannah River National Laboratories where she has worked as a senior scientist, fellow scientist, environmental manager, outreach program coordinator, and program manager. One project she founded and manages is the Group for

Innovation Innovation is the practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement in offering goods or services. ISO TC 279 in the standard ISO 56000:2020 defines innovation as "a new or changed entity ...

& Advancements in

Nano-Technology Nanotechnology, also shortened to nanotech, is the use of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale for industrial purposes. The earliest, widespread description of nanotechnology referred to the particular technological goal of ...

Sciences (GIANTS). "This program includes undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers from the University of South Carolina,

Clemson University Clemson University () is a public land-grant research university in Clemson, South Carolina. Founded in 1889, Clemson is the second-largest university in the student population in South Carolina. For the fall 2019 semester, the university enro ...

Georgia Institute of Technology The Georgia Institute of Technology, commonly referred to as Georgia Tech or, in the state of Georgia, as Tech or The Institute, is a public research university and institute of technology in Atlanta, Georgia. Established in 1885, it is part of ...

, and

Awards and honors

Murph has won numerous awards including: *

United States Department of Energy The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government that oversees U.S. national energy policy and manages the research and development of nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the United Stat ...

- “Inspirational Woman in STEM” *Savannah River National Laboratory : NNSA Programs - Women at the Forefront of their Field of Expertise Recognition, 2011 *

- Key Contributor Award: for Nanotechnology Advances in the Field, 2015 *Savannah River National Laboratory - Exceptional Leadership Award, 2016 *SRNL Director's Award for Exceptional Scientific and Engineering Achievement, 2017 *SRNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program - Most Valuable Project Award, 2019

Societies

Minerals, Metals & Materials Society The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is a professional organization for materials scientists and engineers that encompasses the entire range of materials and engineering, from minerals processing and primary metals production to basic r ...

- Board of Directors *Frontiers in Nanoenergy, Technologies, and Materials - Editorial Board

Publications

Simona has over 160 publications. Her most cited work has been cited over 3200 times. Below is a sampling of her most cited works, each one has been cited more than 400 times: *Anisotropic metal nanoparticles: synthesis, assembly, and optical applications - CJ Murphy, TK Sau, AM Gole, CJ Orendorff, J Gao, L Gou, SE Hunyadi, ... ''

The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ''The Journal of Physical Chemistry B'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research on several fields of material chemistry (macromolecules, soft matter, and surfactants) as well as statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and biophysi ...

'', (2005) *Chemical sensing and imaging with metallic nanorods - CJ Murphy, AM Gole, SE Hunyadi, JW Stone, PN Sisco, A Alkilany, ...

Chemical Communications ''ChemComm'' (or ''Chemical Communications''), formerly known as ''Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications'' (1969–1971), ''Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications'' (1972–1995), is a peer-reviewed scientif ...

, (2008) *One-dimensional colloidal gold and silver nanostructures - CJ Murphy, AM Gole, SE Hunyadi, CJ Orendorff Inorganic chemistry, (2006)

Patents

Murph has been awarded multiple patents including a few in the year 2020: *Methods and materials for determination of distribution coefficients for separation materials, US10598599B2 *Radiation Detectors Employing Contemporaneous Detection and Decontamination, US20200082954A1 *Controlled Release of Hydrogen from Composite Nanoparticles, US20180319658A1

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Murph, Simona Hunyadi Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Romanian women engineers Romanian emigrants to the United States Romanian inventors 21st-century American inventors American women inventors American women chemists Romanian physicists American astrophysicists American women physicists Science communication award winners 21st-century American physicists Expatriate academics in the United States 21st-century American women scientists University of Georgia faculty Babeș-Bolyai University alumni Augusta University alumni University of South Carolina alumni American women academics American women engineers