Profile
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OrganizationYale University, New Haven, CT
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Biography
Ilona Kretzschmar received her Diploma (1996) and PhD (1999) degrees in Chemistry from the Technical University of Berlin. During her graduate studies with Professor H. Schwarz, she studied reactions of metal cations with organic molecules in the gas phase employing Fourier-transform ion-cyclotron resonance (FTICR) and Guided-Ion Beam (GIB) mass spectrometry. From 2000 to 2002, she was a Feodor-Lynen postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, working on hydrocarbon radical-rearrangement reactions on clean and modified metal surfaces. She joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University in 2002 where she is currently a postdoctoral research associate working with Professor M. A. Reed. Her present areas of research focus on: nano/micro fabrication, self-assembly, and molecular electronics.