Deanna D'Alessandro

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Deanna Michelle D'Alessandro
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Deanna D'Alessandro (2017)
Alma mater James Cook University
Awardse.g., L'Oreal Australia For Women in Science
Scientific career
Institutions University of Sydney
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis Stereochemical effects on intervalence charge transfer  (2006)

Deanna Michelle D'Alessandro is an Australian chemist who is a Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney. Her research considers fundamental aspects of electron transfer in molecular coordination complexes and in nanoporous materials, and the development of metal–organic frameworks for environmental applications including carbon dioxide capture and conversion.

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Early life and education

D'Alessandro completed her Bachelor of Science degree and PhD at James Cook University. [1] During her graduate studies, she studied the impact of stereochemistry on electron transfer with Emeritus Professor Richard Keene. [2] Her PhD (conferred in 2006) titled “Stereochemical Effects on Intervalence Charge Transfer” has been the subject of a number of international publications and awards including a JCU Medal of Excellence for a Doctoral Research Thesis, the 2006 Cornforth Medal of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, and a 2007 IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists, [3] one of 5 awarded internationally. She subsequently moved to a postdoctoral position at the University of Sydney in 2007, where she worked on artificial photosynthesis for developing molecular electronics devices, presenting this research in schools and to public audiences as part of 'Fresh Science'. [4] D'Alessandro became qualified as a JP(Qld) in 2003.

Research and career

In 2007, D'Alessandro joined Professor Jeff Long's group at the University of California, Berkeley where she was supported by the DOW Chemical Company's American-Australian Association Fellowship [5] and a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Fellowship. Here she began work in metal–organic frameworks for environmental applications including carbon dioxide capture. An important advance was the first successful design and synthesis of air and water stable alkylamine-based MOFs for postcombustion carbon capture which is the subject of an international patent [6] in addition to a number of critical reviews. [7]

D'Alessandro returned to Australia as a University of Sydney Postdoctoral Fellow in 2010. She was made a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Fellow at the University of Sydney in the same year, and in 2011 received an Australian Research Council QEII Fellowship which allowed her to start building her own research group. Her research considers the design and development of novel inorganic materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) for multifunctional electronic, optical and magnetic devices. [8]

She has worked to develop materials that can adsorb and transform carbon dioxide. [9] These MOFs are porous materials with very high surface areas which are also lightweight, low cost and potentially conductive. They behave like a sponge, and can capture and separate gases such as methane, nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon dioxide, amongst others. [10] [11]

Awards and honours

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