About

PhD in Industrial Engineering from Università degli Studi di Firenze, with expertise in magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications. Experienced in nanoparticle synthesis, characterization, and micromagnetic modeling through internships at ICMM (Madrid), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK), and Erasmus+ projects across Europe. Proven academic excellence with a Master’s in Optics and Optometry and a strong background in advanced magnetic materials.

Skills

  • Powder X-Ray diffractometer: XRD Bruker New D8 AD
    10
  • Transmission Electron Microscopy
    8
  • Mössbauer spectroscopy
    10
  • Quantum Design MPMS SQUID and PPMS magnetometers
    8
  • UV-VIS spectroscopy
    10
  • Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS)
    8
  • Programing: C++ and HTML
  • Database : MySQL
  • Mathematica
  • Maple
  • origin
  • Romanian native
  • Russian (native)
  • German (B1)
  • English (B2)
  • Italian (B1)

Recommendations

Maksim Arsentev

12/24/2024
6

"I recommend her as good chemist and mature specialist."

Experience

Elena Balica

Education
  • Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM - CSIC)

Elena Balica

Education
  • November, 2022 - November, 2022
  • Fulltime
  • Research Topic: "SAXS measurements in core-shell nanostructures"

Elena Balica

Education
  • PhD Thesis: "Design of magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles for the therapy of adiposopathy by low-frequency alternative
  • current magnetic field"
  • Supervisors: Claudio Sangregorio - Researcher and Andrea Caneschi - Professor

Elena Balica

Education
  • Carried out inorganic syntheses (crystallizations) under controlled atmosphere (with inert gas) by varying different parameters;
  • Used different laboratory techniques for characterizing the so-synthesis samples then she took part in the magnetic measurements of her products and mainly observed the expected behavior (spin transition with a hysteresis);
  • Performed and analyzed temperature-variable optical measurements in order to obtain additional informations on the spin state switching process exhibited by peculiar molecular materials.

Elena Balica

Education
  • Thesis: "The study of photomagnetic effects"
  • Supervisors: Alexandru Stancu - Professor and Ionuț-Cristian Topală - Professor

Elena Balica

Education
  • Understanding the physical fundamentals of concepts, phenomena and working principles of magnetism, micromagnetism, nanostructures, spintronics.
  • Using specific tools, equipment and techniques for micromagnetic simulations ( mumax3 , OOMMF).
  • Constructing micromagnetic models for specific geometries and materials

Elena Balica

Education
  • Synthesis of magnetic nanoparticles with core - shell structure by wet chemistry method (thermal decomposition of metal organic precursors).
  • Morphological charactherization of nanostructured materials by Transmission Electron Microscopy.
  • Structural characterization of nanopowders by X-Ray Diffraction (data acquisition and analysis).
  • Characterization of the magnetic properties by standard magnetometric technique (SQUID and VSM magnetometer): measurements and data interpretation.
  • Measurements of the hyperthermic efficiency (SAR evaluation) of a suspension of magnetic nanoparticles by calorimetric technique.

Elena Balica

Education
  • ERASMUS + Traineeship: Electric Characterization of Conducting Polymers; Museum of Science and Technology at   University of Patras
  • Acquisition presentation & interpretation of experimental data.
  • Ability to search in the bibliographic databases.
  • Appreciation of the useful material. Knowledge of methods for measurements of resistivity and variation of
  • resistivity with temperature and aging time.
  • Ability to design and perform an educational program in a Science Museum.

Elena Balica

Education
  • Thesis: "Study of core-shell magnetic nanostructures. Properties and applications"
  • Supervisors: Alexandru Stancu - Professor and Iordana Astefanoaie - Associate Professor

Related persons

Maksim Arsentev

12/24/2024
6

"I recommend her as good chemist and mature specialist."