Assistant Professor Ksenia Bravaya recently received the Patricia Mclellan Leavitt Research Fund!

Professor Ksenia Bravaya, Patricia Mclellan Leavitt Research Fund Awardee
Professor Ksenia Bravaya, Patricia Mclellan Leavitt Research Fund Awardee

Assistant Professor Ksenia Bravaya was recently selected by Boston University to receive the an award from the Patricia Mclellan Leavitt Research Fund. This award is designed “to support research of one or more non-tenured junior faculty members, or graduate students, in chemistry or biology at the College of Arts and Sciences. Preference shall be given to female faculty who demonstrate a commitment to encouraging women to study science, or to female graduate students.”

Dr. Bravaya will use these funds to support her research into challenging electronic structure phenomena in biomolecules and systems relevant for materials, which include photoinduced processes, autoionizing electronic states, and magnetic field effects. This award will help her and her team use and develop high-level electronic structure methods targeting processes involving multiple electronic states, chemistry of open-shell species in magnetic fields, and electronically excited and metastable systems.

Congratulations to Professor Bravaya!