Professor Anastassia Alexandrova has been honored with the 2024 Quantum Bio-Inorganic Chemistry (QBIC) Prize for her groundbreaking research on the role of electrostatics in enzymatic catalysis.
This prestigious award recognizes exceptional contributions to the fields of inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry, particularly through the application of theoretical, quantum chemical, or computational methods. As part of the recognition, Alexandrova will deliver a special QBIC Award lecture at the upcoming QBIC VII conference, which will be held from August 26-29, 2025, in Berlin.
Alexandrova has received several prestigious awards in recent years, including the 2024, 2022, and 2020 DOE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) Award. In 2023, she was honored with the UCLA Gold Shield Faculty Prize for academic excellence and the Brown Investigator Award by the Brown Science Foundation. Additionally, in 2022, she received the Chemical Science Reviewer Highlight Award and the Utah State University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Alumni Achievement Award. She was awarded the Max Planck-Humboldt Medal in 2021, a joint honor from the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. In 2020, she also received the ACS PHYS Early Career Award.
Penny Jennings, UCLA Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, penny@chem.ucla.edu.
