Alenka Luzar (1954 – March 5, 2019)[1][2] was a Slovenian-American physical chemist[3] known for her research on the dynamics of hydrogen bonds in water.[1][2][4]
Education and career edit
Luzar is originally from Ljubljana, and as a teenager was a member of the Slovenian junior national ski team at the Junior Olympic games associated with the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble.[4] She was educated at the University of Ljubljana, completing her Ph.D. there in 1983.[2][3]
She was a faculty member at the university from 1983 until 1992, while at the same time performing postdoctoral research at the University of Puerto Rico, Stony Brook University, and the University of California, Berkeley,[3] where she worked with David Chandler.[5] She continued as a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley from 1992 to 1997, and took a faculty position at the University of California, San Francisco in 1998. She moved to Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004.[3]
Service edit
Luzar was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Molecular Liquids from 2016 until her death. She chaired the 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Water and Aqueous solutions.[1][6]
Recognition edit
Luzar became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2008, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2010, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2017.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d In Memoriam, Professor Alenka Luzar, Virginia Commonwealth University, 5 March 2019, retrieved 2020-06-18
- ^ a b c Wang, Linda (12 July 2019), "Obituary: Alenka Luzar", Chemical & Engineering News, 97 (28)
- ^ a b c d "Alenka Luzar: Biographical Sketch", Luzar Research Group, Virginia Commonwealth University, retrieved 2020-06-18
- ^ a b A Q&A with Alenka Luzar on what's so special about water, Virginia Commonwealth University, 30 September 2014, retrieved 2020-06-18
- ^ "Alumni", Chandler Research Group, University of California, Berkeley, retrieved 2020-06-18
- ^ Alenka Luzar was appointed by Elsevier as Editor-in-Chief, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1 November 2016, retrieved 2020-06-18