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Dr. Nelaine Mora-Diez
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
Ph.D. Chemistry Dalhousie University, Department of
Chemistry, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (1997-2001). Supervisor: Prof. Russell J. Boyd
Thesis: “Computational
Studies on Topics of Environmental Interest: From Kinetics to Excited States” B.Sc. Chemistry (First-Class Honors)
University of Havana, Faculty of Chemistry,
Havana City, Cuba (1991-1996). A five-year degree (Licenciatura) with a
research thesis in the last year. Supervisor:
Prof. Luis A. Montero Cabrera Thesis:
“Computational Modeling
of Solvent Effects on the Excited States of Organic Molecules”
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia (since 2014). Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia (2010-2014). Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia (2003-2010). Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia (2006-2015). NSERC Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow, Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, Ontario (2002-2003). Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (1997-2001).
Research Assistant and Instructor, Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Havana, Havana City, Cuba (1996-1997).
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Faculty of
Chemistry, University of Havana, Havana City, Cuba (1992-1996). RESEARCH
VISITS Universidad de Extremadura (UNEX), Facultad de Química, Badajoz, Spain (2013, 2014, 2016-2019, 2022,
2023, 2024). Université de Lorraine, Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Théoriques,
Nancy, France (2022). Université de Nantes, Laboratory CEISAM, Nantes, France (2021). Universitat de les Illes Balears, Facultad de Química, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2018, 2019). Dalhousie University,
Department of Chemistry, Halifax (2014). Euskal
Herriko Univertsitatea,
Facultad de Química, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain (2010, 2011). Università della Svizzera Italiana, Institute
of Computational Science, Lugano, Switzerland (2010). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Departamento de Química-Física Aplicada, Madrid, Spain (2006-2009). Instituto de Estructura de la Materia, C.S.I.C., Madrid, Spain (2002).
Euskal Herriko Univertsitatea, Facultad de
Química, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
(2000). Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM-Iztapalapa), Departamento de Química, Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico (2000). RESEARCH FUNDING EXTERNAL
NSERC Discovery
Grants: 2022-2027, 5 years 2017-2022, 5 years 2009-2014 (extended
to 2016), 5 years 2007-2009, 2 years 2004-2007, 3 years NSERC Research Tools and Instruments Grant (2007). NSERC USRA
(Undergraduate student Research Award) funding (currently $7,500 used as
salary for an undergraduate student): winter 2005 (1), winter 2006 (1),
summer 2006 (1), winter 2008 (1), summer 2008 (1), summer 2012 (1), winter
2014 (1), summer 2014 (2), summer 2021 (2), summer 2022 (1). ELAP (Emerging Leaders of the Americas Program) funding for a visiting graduate student from Latin America and the Caribbean ($7,200; Jan-Apr 2016). INTERNAL
TRU RTRF (Research
Training Recognition Fund; faculty holding multi-year Tri-Council grants are
eligible to apply; $7,900 used for a
three-credit course release): winter 2017, fall 2017, winter 2020, fall 2021,
winter 2023, winter 2024. TRU UREAP
(Undergraduate Research Experience Award Program) funding (currently $6,000
used as salary for an undergraduate student with an additional funding of
$1,000 to attend a conference): summer 2004 (2), fall/winter 2006 (1), winter
2010 (1), summer 2012 (1), summer 2013 (1), summer 2019 (1), summer 2022 (2). TRU Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship ($3,000 used as salary for
an undergraduate student): winter 2017 (1), fall/winter 2022 (2), fall/winter
2024 (1), fall/winter 2025 (1). TRUSU funding for an
undergraduate student ($1,000) to attend a conference: summer 2022 (2 + 2),
summer 2023 (2 + 2), summer 2024 (1). TRU Travel Grants: $1,466 (2005), $2,200 (2006); funding discontinued after 2006. TRU Scholarly Activity Grant ($2,500, 2004); funding discontinued after 2006.
RECOGNITIONS Awardee
of the Mourou/Strickland
Mobility Program (France–Canada, 2020): it funded part of my
research visit to the Université de Nantes in 2021. Anderson
Award for Excellence in Chemical Research and Education (Memorial University,
Department of Chemistry) (2019) Visiting
Professorship, Universitat
de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (2019). Sabbatical
Fellowship, Basque Foundation for Science (Ikerbasque), Spain (2010-2011). Excellence in
Scholarship Award, Thompson Rivers University Scholarly Merit, 2009. Research fellowship granted by the Secretaría de Estado de Universidades
e Investigación of the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (MEC) of Spain
(2008-09). NSERC Visiting Fellowship in Canadian Government Laboratories (2002-2003).
Chemical Computing Group's Excellence Award granted by the Computers in Chemistry (COMP) Division of the American Chemical Society (2001).
Best graduating student of the
Gold Award of the
Member of the Cuban team of the 23rd
International
Chemistry Olympiad in
Gold Medal in the National Chemistry
Competition, LANGUAGES English, French and Spanish.
INVITED TALKS University of St.
Andrews, Department of Chemistry, Scotland, United Kingdom, June 2024. Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de Chiapas, Facultad de Ciencias Química, Tapachula, Chiapas,
México, February 2024. Université de Québec à Montréal, Département de Chimie, Montréal, June
2023. Universitat de Girona, Institut de Química Computacional i Catàlisi,
Girona, Spain, June 2023. Universidad Autónoma “Benito Juarez” de Oaxaca, Facultad de Ciencias
Química, Oaxaca, México, February 2023. Université de Lorraine, Laboratoire de Physique et
Chimie Théoriques, Nancy, France, May 2022. York University, Department of Chemistry,
Toronto, Ontario, February 2022. Université de Nantes, Laboratory CEISAM
(Chemistry and interdisciplinary: synthesis, analysis, modeling), Nantes,
France, December 2021. Wilfrid Laurier
University, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Waterloo, November
2021. The University of British
Columbia-Okanagan Campus, Department of Chemistry, Kelowna, February 2021. Carleton University,
Department of Chemistry, Ottawa, Ontario, June 2020. University
of Windsor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Windsor, Ontario,
August 2019 Anderson
Award Lecture Series, Memorial University, Department of Chemistry, St.
John’s, Newfoundland, August 2019 (two presentations). Université de Nantes, Laboratory CEISAM (Interdisciplinary Chemistry: Synthesis, Analysis, Modeling), Nantes, France, June 2019. Universidad de Guadalajara,
Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías (CUCEI), Departamento
de Química, Guadalajara, México, December 2018. Universidad de La Habana, Facultad de Química, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba,
December 2016. Universidad Autónoma
de Yucatán, Facultad de Química, Mérida, México, December 2016. University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Department of Chemistry, Kelowna, November 2016. University of
Copenhagen, Department of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Division, Copenhagen,
Denmark, June 2016. Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology
(INSTEC), Havana City, Cuba, May 2015. Dalhousie University,
Department of Chemistry, Halifax, June 2014. University of Jordan,
Department of Chemistry, Amman, Jordan, April 2014. Tel Aviv University,
Department of Organic Chemistry, Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2014. University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Department of Chemistry, Kelowna, September 2011. University of Guelph, Department of Chemistry, Guelph, June 2011. Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Faculty of Chemistry,
Theoretical Chemistry Group, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, December 2010. Universidad de Extremadura, Department of Organic
Chemistry, Badajoz, Spain, October 2010. Università di Lugano (USI), Department of Chemistry
and Applied Biosciences (ETH Zurich), Lugano, Switzerland, June 2010. University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry,
Cambridge, U.K., April 2009. Imperial College London, Department of Chemistry,
London, U.K., April 2009. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
(CSIC), Institute of Mathematics and Fundamental Physics (IMAFF), Madrid,
Spain, March 2009. Université Cadi Ayyad, Faculté des Sciences
Semlalia, Department of
Chemistry, Marrakesh, Morocco, December 2008. Universidad de
Santiago de Compostela, Department of Physical Chemistry, Santiago de
Compostela, Spain, December 2008. Université de Genève,
Department of Physical Chemistry, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2008. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, September 2007. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Department of Applied Physical Chemistry, Madrid, Spain, May 2007. Universidad de Burgos, Department of Physical Chemistry, Burgos, Spain, May 2007. University of Toronto
(St. George and Scarborough campuses), Department of Chemistry, Università di Pisa, Department of Chemistry, Pisa, Italy, June 2006. Università di Siena, Department of Chemistry, Siena, Italy, June 2006. Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Physical Chemistry, Barcelona, Spain, June 2006. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Department of Applied Physical Chemistry, Madrid, Spain, June 2006. University of Alberta, Department of Chemistry, Edmonton, May 2006. University of Victoria, Department of Chemistry, Victoria, April 2006. University of Sasktachewan, Department of Chemistry, Saskatoon, May 2005. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, February 2005. Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, April 2003. Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada, Ottawa, August 2001. Department of Chemistry, Quantum Chemistry Group, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2000. |