Postdoctoral Appointee

Leipzig University

Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy

INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

WORKING GROUP KOHLMANN

Technikum Analytikum (TA), 2. OG Raum 322

Linnestrasse 3, 04103 Leipzig, Germany

Phone: ( (+49)-(0)341/97-36203

Email: mihai-ionut.sturza@uni-leipzig.de 

Brief Biography

2022 – to date: Postdoctoral Researcher at  Leipzig University, Fakultät für Chemie und Mineralogie, Institut für Anorganische Chemie, AK Kohlmann Leipzig, Germany

2015 – 2021: Postdoctoral Researcher in Synthesis and Crystal Growth Research Team, Intermetallic Magnetic Materials Group, IFF, IFW, Dresden, Germany

2011 – 2014: Postdoctoral Appointee in Solid State Chemistry, Argonne National Laboratory, Material Science Division, Emerging Materials Group, Argonne, IL, USA

2008 – 2011: PhD. in Solid State Chemistry, Science and Technology University of Lille1, UCCS UMR8181 Laboratory, France

2004 – 2006: Master’s Degree in Environmental Chemistry, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Faculty of Chemistry, Romania

2000 – 2004: B.Sc Degree in General chemistry primarily focused on radiochemistry, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Faculty of Chemistry, Romania.

Events/Talks

• INTERMAG 2021 (virtual conference) April 26-30, 2021, ” La₆Pd_2+xSb₁₅(x = 0.28): A Rare-earth Palladium Intermetallic Compound with Extended Pnictogen Ribbons” M. I. Sturza, M. L. Amigó, J. I. Facio, F.Caglieris, S. Wurmehl, B. Büchner
• DPG Annual Meeting (DPG-Frühjahrstagung) 2019, Regensburg, March 31 – April 5, 2019 “Electron spin resonance studies on the frustrated tripod-Kagome compound Mg₂Gd₃Sb₃O₁₄” C. Welm, J. Zeisner, M. I. Sturza, G. Bastien, A.U.B. Wolter, B. Büchner, V. Kataev
• 6^th International Conference and Exhibition on Materials Science and Chemistry  May 17-18, 2018 Rome, Italy “Novel low-dimensional mixed-valent transition metal chalcogenides discovered by exploratory synthesis” (Best Poster Awards) M. I. Sturza, A. J. E. Rettie, D. Bugaris, F. Han, D. Y. Chung, S. Askwartham, S. Wurmehl,
  M. Kanatzidis, B. Büchner
• American Conference on Neutron Scattering, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, June 1-5, 2014 “The Structural and Magnetic Properties of Cs_xFe_2-ySe₂ as Determined by X-Ray and Neutron Scattering of Powder and Single Crystal Samples” M. Taddei, M.Sturza, S. Avci, O. Chmaissem, S. Rosenkranz, R. Osborn, M.G. Kanatzidis, D. Y. Chung.
• APS March Meeting 2014, Denver, CO, USA, Mar. 3-7 2014 “Superconductivity in the pnictide intermetallic compound Ca₁₁Bi_10-x” M.Sturza, F. Han, C. D. Malliakas, H. Claus, D.Y. Chung, M. G. Kanatzidis
• 246th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, Indianapolis, IN, USA, Sep. 8-12 2013 “NaBa₂Cu₃S₅: A doped p-type semiconductor.” M.Sturza, F. Han, D. Shoemaker, C. D. Malliakas, D. Y. Chung, H. Jin, A. J. Freeman, M. G Kanatzidis.

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