INTEC (CONICET-UNL)
E-mail: florencia_calaza @ avs.org

FLORENCIA CALAZA earned her Licenciate (B.Sc.) degree in Chemistry from Universidad Nacional de San Luis, Argentina (2003) and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI (2008), the latter under supervision of Prof. Eddy Tysoe. After one term as postodoctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and a second term under a Humboldt Fellowship at the Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin, Germany (under supervision of Hajo Freund), she returned to Argentina in 2015 as a Staff  Scientist for the National Council of Science and Technology (CONICET) working at INTEC, in Santa Fe.

Florencia is focused mostly on research in the field of heterogeneous catalysis with a strong research approach from the surface science field, focusing on mechanisms elucidation of surface reactions at the atomic/molecular level, with strong interest in structure-reactivity relationships, using a variety of analytical techniques (from UHV to high pressures or liquid-solid interfaces). Also, in recent times she became involved in other areas related to physical chemistry phenomena on surfaces and interfaces as photochemistry on nanomaterials or growth/modification of materials with specific interests in Nanotechnology.

From her academic contributions, it is worth mentioning that she guides several students for their Master’s work, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows, besides teaching yearly a course on Experimental Surface Science for graduate students at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL). In 2022 she became Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the Physics Department of UNL.