Silvia Braslavsky

Silvia Elsa Braslavsky (born April 5, 1942 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine chemist.[1] She is the daughter of educationist Berta Perelstein de Braslavsky and biochemist Lázaro Braslavsky, and the sister of Cecilia Braslavsky, educationist and erstwhile director of the International Bureau of Education of UNESCO. She has two daughters, sociologist Paula-Irene Villa Braslavksy and Carolina Klockow.

Braslavsky has worked extensively in the domain of photobiology and she is a specialist in experimental photooptoacoustics. She was senior research scientist and Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry (now renamed Bioinorganic Chemistry) until her retirement in 2007.

Scientific career

Braslavsky read chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires but left Argentina after the "night of the long batons". While being a research assistant in Santiago de Chile she defended her PhD at the University of Buenos Aires. Following temporary positions at Penn State University (1969-1972), the National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina (1972-1975), again Penn State (1975) and the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada (1975), she moved to the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry in Mülheim, Germany (1976), where she stayed until her retirement in 2007.

Functions

Braslavsky holds numerous official positions in the scientific field of chemistry. Since 2000 she is the chair of the IUPAC subcommittee on photochemistry. Since 2006 she is a corresponding member of CONICET and is a member of the international scientific advisory committee of INQUIMAE (Institute for Chemistry of Materials, Environment and Energy). Currently, she is chair and main organiser of the 16th International Conference on Photobiology, to be held in Cordoba, Argentina in 2014.[2] Since 2010 she is a member of the representative panel of the RCAA (Red de Científicos Argentinos en Alemania, i.e. the Network of Argentine Scientists in Germany).

Honours and awards
  • in 1998 she was the first women to be awarded the Research Award of the American Society for Photobiology.[3]
  • In 2004 she was awarded the Elhuyar-Goldschmidt price of the Spanish and German chemical society.[4]
  • In 2008 she was the first woman to be awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from the Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain.[5]
  • In 2011 she was awarded the “Raíces” Prize by the Minister of Science (MINCYT) in Argentina in recognition of her engagement for the scientific cooperation between Argentina and Germany.[6]

Partial bibliography
  • "Time-Resolved Photothermal and Photoacoustic Methods Applied to Photoinduced Processes in Solution", S.E. Braslavsky, G.E. Heibel, Chem. Rev. 92, 1381-1410 (1992). doi: 10.1021/cr00014a007
  • "Effect of Solvent on the Radiative Decay of Singlet Molecular Oxygen a(1Δg)", R.D. Scurlock, S. Nonell, S.E. Braslavsky, P.R. Ogilby, J. Phys. Chem. 99, 3521-3526 (1995). doi: 10.1021/j100011a019
  • '"Glossary of Terms Used in Photochemistry'", 3rd Version (IUPAC Recommendations 2006), S.E.Braslavsky, Pure Appl. Chem. 79, 293-461 (2007). doi:10.1351/pac200779030293
  • '"Glossary of Terms Used in Photocatalysis and Radiation Catalysis'" (IUPAC recommendations 2011) S.E. Braslavsky, A.M. Braun, A.E. Cassano, A.V. Emeline, M.I. Litter, L. Palmisano, V.N. Parmon, N. Serpone, Pure Appl. Chem. 83, 931-1014 (2011). doi:10.1351/PAC-REC-09-09-36

References
  1. "Max Planck Society CV". Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  2. "Website of Conference". Archived from the original on 22 July 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  3. "ASP list of previous award winners" (PDF). Retrieved 29 December 2012.
  4. "Press notice of the MPG". Archived from the original on 11 May 2011. Retrieved 17 December 2012.
  5. "Press notice of the Universitat Ramon Llull". Retrieved 16 December 2012.
  6. "Press notice of MINCYT". Retrieved 16 December 2012.
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