Dr. Maren Pink

Department of Chemistry
155c Kolthoff Hall
207 Pleasant Street S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA

Phone : +1 (612) 625-9309
Fax : +1 (612) 626-7541
E-mail: pink@chem.umn.edu, pink@server1.rz.uni-leipzig.de

Since 2000: Crystallographer at IUMSC, Indiana University.
1998 - 2000: Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota
1997 - 1998: Postdoctoral Fellow at Bologna University, Italy, Advisor: Prof. V. Balzani
Jul. 1995 and Feb. 1996: Visiting researcher at the NSLS, Brookhaven National Laboratory, N.Y., USA
1991-1996: Research Assistant at Leipzig University, Germany, while working on doctoral thesis, Advisor: Prof. J. Sieler
Jul. 1991 - Oct. 1991: Traineeship on waste treatment at Iowa State University, Ames IA, USA
1991: "Diplom" in Chemistry, University of Leipzig, Germany

Mechanistic studies of solid state reactions using X-ray diffraction techniques.

Treatment of twin data and twin refinements (merohedral and rotational twins)

Syntheses, solid state structures, photophysical and photochemical properties of complexes and dendrimers based on Ru- and Os-Bpy building blocks.

Environmental Chemistry: ecologically justifiable waste treatment.

1.	N. Daro, J-P. Sutter, M. Pink, O. Kahn, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 2000, 1087-1089.
2.	M. J. Harvey, T. P. Hanusa, M. Pink, Chem. Commun., 2000, 489-490.
3.	Z. Xu, P. W. Read, D. E. Hibbs, M. B. Hursthouse, K. M. Abdul Malik, B. O. Patrick, S. J. Rettig, M. Seid, D. A. Summers, M. Pink, R. C. Thomson, C. Orvig, Inorg. Chem. 2000, 39, 508-516.