Natalia Dubrovinskaia (born 18 February 1961) is a Swedish geologist of Russian origin.
Education
In 1983, Natalia Dubrovinskaia earned a Master of Science degree in geochemistry from Moscow State University and she received her PhD in crystallography and crystal physics at the same institution 6 years later. Working as a senior researcher fellow until 2007, she finished the Habilitation of crystallography and Umhabilitation the following year at University of Bayreuth, Germany.[1][2] In 2011, she had worked as a staff scientist at the University of Heidelberg.
In 2005, Dubrovinskaia led a team of researchers from the University of Bayreuth who were reported to have produced aggregated diamond nanorods from fullerene under high temperatures and pressures.[3][4][5] Two years earlier, large samples of nanodiamond were produced in a cheaper way (from graphite) and discovered to be harder than diamond by Japanese researchers.[6] Dubrovinskaia worked at the Heidelberg University in Germany as a Privatdozent and senior scientist from 2007 to 2011.
Since then, Natalia Dubrovinskaia returns to University of Bayreuth and employed as Professor of Materials Physics and Technology at Extreme Conditions.[1][2]
Natalia Dubrovinskaia is currently the Editor-in-chief for the International Journal of Materials and Chemistry[7]
Natalia Dubrovinskaia is currently the Editor-in-chief for the International Journal of Materials and Chemistry[7]
Personal life
Dubrovinskaia is married to Leonid Dubrovinsky, a geoscientist at University of Bayreuth.[8] Together both her and her husband have been working as a scientific couple for the past four decades.
Research
Throughout the career of Professor Dubrovinskaia, she has published over 222 papers cover a variety of topics but mostly focus on Crystallography, Diamond anvil cell, Analytical chemistry, Diffraction and Diamond.[9] Her extensive research in the field of biology encompasses various subjects, such as X-ray crystallography, Bulk modulus, and Boron. Additionally, her investigation using Diamond anvil cell focuses on areas like Mineralogy, specifically related to Mantle and Stishovite, as well as Thermodynamics, which has connections to fields like Core. Her works in Analytical chemistry encompasses Ab initio quantum chemistry methods and Ambient pressure, while her Diffraction study integrates various areas including Elasticity, Phase transition, Single crystal, Synchrotron, and Isostructural. Her investigation delves into the correlation between Diamond and topics such as Chemical engineering, which intersect with challenges in Metal-related issues. She has also done research into a new method of synthesising rare earth-metal compounds. In this research her main area of focus was on exploring the intriguing reactivity of alkali halides, like common table salt NaCl, when subjected to high pressure in the presence of rare-earth metals such as Yttrium and Dysprosium.[10]
Experimental and Theoretical Identification of a New High-Pressure TiO2 Polymorph[13]
2004
May 17
Titanium metal at high pressure: Synchrotron experiments and ab initio calculations[14]
2004
September 2
Cubic TiO2 as a potential light absorber in solar-energy conversion[15]
2004
December 1
High-pressure and high-temperature synthesis of the cubic TiO2 polymorph[16]
2005
March 24
Structural characterization of the hard fullerite phase obtained at 13GPa and 830K[17]
2005
December 8
Beating the Miscibility Barrier between Iron Group Elements and Magnesium by High-Pressure Alloying[18]
2007
January 25
Noblest of All Metals Is Structurally Unstable at High Pressure[19]
2007
October 19
Pure Iron Compressed and Heated to Extreme Conditions[20]
2009
May 7
Superhard Semiconducting Optically Transparent High Pressure Phase of Boron[21]
2010
November 18
Pressure-induced isostructural phase transformation in γ-B28[22]
2011
April 21
Impact of lattice vibrations on equation of state of the hardest boron phase[23]
2011
May 25
Electron-Deficient and Polycenter Bonds in the High-Pressure γ−B28 Phase of Boron[24]
2011
October 17
Missing-atom structure of diamond Σ5 (001) twist grain boundary[25]
2013
July 29
Experimental evidence of orbital order in α-B12 and γ-B28 polymorphs of elemental boron[26]
2013
October 7
Discovery of a Superhard Iron Tetraboride Superconductor[27]
2013
November 19
High-pressure behavior of structural, optical, and electronic transport properties of the golden Th2S3-type Ti2O3[28]
2014
January 15
Role of Disorder in the Thermodynamics and Atomic Dynamics of Glasses[29]
2014
February 24
Peierls distortion, magnetism, and high hardness of manganese tetraboride[30]
2016
May 26
Pressure-induced crossing of the core levels in 5d metals[31]
2017
May 16
Nonicosahedral boron allotrope synthesized at high pressure and high temperature[32]
2018
June 8
Breakdown of Magnetic Order in the Pressurized Kitaev Iridate β−Li2IrO3[33]
2019
July 17
Pressure-Induced Hydrogen-Hydrogen Interaction in Metallic FeH Revealed by NMR[34]
2019
September 23
Improving resolution of solid state NMR in dense molecular hydrogen[35]
2019
October 23
No evidence of isostructural electronic transitions in compressed hydrogen[36]
2020
N/A
Materials synthesis and crystallography at extreme pressure-temperature conditions revealing remarkable materials properties[37]
2020
May 28
High-Pressure Polymeric Nitrogen Allotrope with the Black Phosphorus Structure[38]
2020
October 8
Proton mobility in metallic copper hydride from high-pressure nuclear magnetic resonance[39]
2020
October 15
Novel sulfur hydrides synthesized at extreme conditions[40]
2021
March 12
Revealing the Complex Nature of Bonding in the Binary High-Pressure Compound FeO2[41]
2021
April 26
High-Pressure Synthesis of Dirac Materials: Layered van der Waals Bonded BeN4 Polymorph[42]
2021
September 22
Novel High-Pressure Yttrium Carbide γ−Y4C5 Containing [C2] and Nonlinear [C3] Units with Unusually Large Formal Charges[43]
2022
February 14
High-pressure Na3(N2)4, Ca3(N2)4, Sr3(N2)4, and Ba(N2)3 featuring nitrogen dimers with noninteger charges and anion-driven metallicity[44]
2022
October 1
Domain Auto Finder (DAFi) program: the analysis of single-crystal X-ray diffraction data from polycrystalline samples[45]
2022
November 18
Tin weathering experiment set by nature for 300 years: natural crystals of the anthropogenic mineral hydroromarchite from Creussen, Bavaria, Germany[46]
2023
January 9
High-pressure hP3 yttrium allotrope with CaHg2-type structure as a prototype of the hP3 rare-earth hydride series[47]
Recognized with an innovation award from the USSR's Ministry of Geology
2005
Coordinated the ESF Exploratory Workshop on Novel Superhard Materials
2006
Contributed as Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the High Pressure Research International Journal
Since 2006
Reviewing actively for prestigious organizations such as the Swedish Research Council (VR), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Danish Council for Independent Research (DCIR), the European Science Foundation (ESF), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Research Council of Lithuania, the Danish Council for Independent Research (DCIR), the State National Science Award Commission (SNSAC of PRC), and the French National Research Agency (ANR)
Since 2006
Served as a Member of the American Physical Society (APS), German Physical Society (DPG), German Crystallographic Society (DGK), and the European Crystallographic Association (ECA)
2011
Acted as Guest Editor for a Special Issue of the International Journal Materials
2012-14
Held the position of Chief Editor of the International Journal of Materials and Chemistry
2013-16
Contributed as a Peer Review Panel Member for the Diamond Light Source in the UK
2014
Presented as Speaker for the Organizing Committee for the International Year of Crystallography at the University of Bayreuth
2014
Participated actively at the 52nd European High Pressure Research Group International Meeting as a member of the International Advisory Committee
2016
Organized and chaired the 54th EHPRG International Meeting of High Pressure Science and Technology in Bayreuth, Germany
2016
Contributed as Guest Editor for the High Pressure Research International Journal's special issue titled "Advances in High Pressure Science and Technology"
2016-18
Served as a Member of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facilities' Beam Time Allocation Panel C05
Since 2016
Contributed as a Member of the Scientific Reports Editorial Board at Nature Publishing Group, specializing in Chemical Physics
2017
Participated as a Member in the evaluation panel for the Swedish Research Council's 2017 call in the natural and engineering sciences in Sweden
2018
Played a role as a Participant in the assessment review board for the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth (IKZ) in Berlin, Germany
2018
Invited as the Convener for the subtheme "Unconventional Syntheses of Inorganic Solids" at the 7th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Liverpool, UK
2019
Contributed as a Fellow Visiting Professor at the Laboratory of Geosciences Environment, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
2019
Honored to be a member of the International Union of Crystallography's (IUCr) Ewald Prize 2020 Selection Committee