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Veronika Szalai (Fed)
Research Chemist/Project Leader
Veronika A. Szalai joined NIST in 2010 and is currently a Research Chemist/Project Leader in the Biophysical and Biomedical Measurement Group, where her work focuses on advanced electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy and instrumentation development for biometrology. She received an A.B. in Chemistry from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Yale University, where her thesis work centered on biophysical chemistry measurements of water oxidation chemistry in photosynthesis. After completing post-doctoral work on DNA electrochemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Veronika advanced to the rank of tenured associate professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. During that time, she and her group elucidated the biophysical chemistry of copper and the amyloid peptide of Alzheimer's disease and developed methods to create guanine quadruplex-based DNA nanostructures.
Selected Programs/Projects
- Microresonators for inductive-detection electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy of volume-limited samples
- Advanced electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy for structural characterization of bionanomaterials for bioscience and biotechnology
- Metrologies for Nanobiomaterials in Artificial Photosynthesis
Selected Publications
- Recent advances in microresonators and supporting instrumentation for electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy, N. Abhyankar, A.K. Agrawal, J. P. Campbell, T. Maly, P. R. Shrestha, V.A. Szalai Review of Scientific Instruments 93, 101101 (2022)
- Scalable Microresonators for Room-Temperature Detection of Electron Spin Resonance from Dilute, Sub-nanoliter Volume Solids, N. S. Abhyankar, A. K. Agrawal, P. R. Shrestha, R. A. Maier, R.D. McMichael, J. P. Campbell, V.A. Szalai Science Advances, 6 eabb0620 (2020)
- Integration of a Versatile Bridge Concept in a 34 GHz Pulsed/CW EPR Spectrometer, A. Band, M. Donohue, B. Epel, S. Madhu, V. Szalai Journal of Magnetic Resonance, 288 28-36 (2018)
- Molecular Precision at Micrometer Length Scales: Hierarchical Assembly of DNA–Protein Nanostructures, D. Schiffels, V. A. Szalai, and J. A. Liddle ACS Nano 11 6623-6629 (2017)
- Deconvoluting the influences of 3D structure on the performance of photoelectrodes for solar-driven water splitting, Esposito, D.V., Lee, Y., Yoon, H., Haney, P.M., Labrador, N.Y., Moffat, T.P., Talin, A.A., Szalai, V.A., Sustainable Energy & Fuels 1 154-173 (2017)
- Distance Measurements between Paramagnetic Ligands Bound to Parallel Stranded Guanine Quadruplexes, Donohue, M.P. & Szalai,V.A. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18 15447-15455 (2016)
- Tunable Electrical Conductivity in Metal-Organic Framework Thin-Film Devices Talin, A. A.; Centrone, A.; Ford, A. C.; Foster, M. E.; Stavila, V.; Haney, P.; Kinney, R. A.; Szalai, V.; El Gabaly, F.; Yoon, H. P.; Léonard, F.; Allendorf, M. D. Science, 343, 66-69 (2014)
Awards
2019 NIST Bronze Award