Mircea Dincă

Mircea Dincă
Dincă on receiving the 2016 Alan T. Waterman Award.
Born
Alma materPrinceton University (B.A.) (2003)
University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D) (2008)
AwardsACS Award in Pure Chemistry (2016)
Alan T. Waterman Award (2016)
Dream Chemistry Award (2015)
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (2014)
Cottrell Scholar Award (2014)
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2014)
3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award (2013)
DOE Young Investigator Award (2011)
Scientific career
FieldsMetal-organic frameworks
Thesis Hydrogen Storage in Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks with Exposed Metal Sites  (2008)
Doctoral advisorJeffrey R. Long
Other academic advisorsJeffrey Schwartz, Daniel G. Nocera
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Mircea Dincă (born 1980) is a Romanian-American inorganic chemist. He is the Andrew Stewart 1886 Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. At Princeton, Dincă leads a research group that focuses on the synthesis of functional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which possess conductive, catalytic, and other material-favorable properties.