Former Ozerov Group Members

 

 

Laura Gerber

 

Laura Gerber (Brandeis Class of 2007) joined the Ozerov group in September of 2005.  She is a native of Milwaukee, Wisc.  Prior to joining the Ozerov group she spent a summer at the Environmental Molecular Science Institute, University of Notre Dame, as an REU student.  In the Spring of 2006 she interned at the Silent Spring Institute.  She was consistently on the Dean’s list every semester at Brandeis.  Laura was selected for the Brandeis REU program for the summer of 2006, for which she had to turn down other awards.  In the Ozerov group, she worked on the chemistry of PNP complexes of tantalum, with the focus on metal-element multiple bonds.  In the spring of 2007, Laura was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to spend a year at Universitetet i Bergen in Norway working with Prof. Reiner Anwander.  Laura graduated in May of 2007 with a BA/MS in chemistry, magna cum laude with highest honors.  She also received the Snider prize from the Department of Chemistry.  Following a year as a Fulbright scholar, Laura briefly returned to the Ozerov group in the summer of 2008 before starting her Ph.D. studies in chemistry at MIT.

Laura’s publication in the Ozerov group:  

(22)  Gerber,^U L. C. H.; Watson, L. A.; Parkin, S.; Weng, W.; Foxman, B. M.; Ozerov, O. V. "A Bis(methylidene) Complex of Tantalum Supported by a PNP Ligand", Organometallics 2007, 26, 4866.