Marina Petrukhina
Marina Petrukhina is a Russian chemist who is the Carla Rizzo Delray Professor of Chemistry at the University at Albany. Her research investigates organometallic and coordination chemistry in curved molecular systems. She was elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2023.
Early life and education
Petrukhina studied chemistry at Moscow State University. She remained in Moscow for her doctoral research, where she specialized in inorganic chemistry. She then moved to the United States, where she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University.Research and career
Petrukhina works on transition metal clusters, supramolecular and materials chemistry. In 2001, she joined the University at Albany, SUNY, where she was awarded an National Science Foundation CAREER Award.Awards and honors
- 2005 Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Award, State of New York/United University Professions
- 2013 University at Albany, SUNY President's Award for Excellence in Research
- 2023 Elected Fellow of the American Chemical Society
- 2026 American Chemical Society George A. Olah Award in Hydrocarbon or Petroleum Chemistry