Simona Hunyadi Murph

Simona Hunyadi Murph is a Romanian-American scientist, engineer, inventor at Savannah River National Laboratory (Aiken, South Carolina), at the University of Georgia (in Athens, Georgia, United States).

Biography Early life As a young child, Simona was inspired to study chemistry both by her mother's elaborate Romanian cooking and by scientist Marie Curie's life.

Education She received her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry & Physics in 1995 from Babeș-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Directly after, she went on for her Master of Science in Chemistry/Electrochemistry at the same university, graduating in 1996.

In 2007, Murph obtained her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemistry/Nanotechnology at the University of South Carolina (in Columbia, SC). In 2012, she went further to earn her Education Specialist degree in Educational Leadership & Administration at Augusta University (in Augusta, GA). One project she founded and manages is the Group for Innovation & Advancements in Nano-Technology Sciences (GIANTS). "This program includes undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers from the University of South Carolina, University of Georgia, Clemson University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Augusta University." SRNL Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program - Most Valuable Project Award, 2019

Societies Minerals, Metals & Materials Society - Board of Directors Frontiers in Nanoenergy, Technologies, and Materials - Editorial Board

Anisotropic metal nanoparticles: synthesis, assembly, and optical applications - CJ Murphy, TK Sau, AM Gole, CJ Orendorff, J Gao, L Gou, SE Hunyadi... The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, (2005)

Chemical sensing and imaging with metallic nanorods - CJ Murphy, AM Gole, SE Hunyadi, JW Stone, PN Sisco, A Alkilany... Chemical Communications, (2008)

One-dimensional colloidal gold and silver nanostructures - CJ Murphy, AM Gole, SE Hunyadi, CJ Orendorff Inorganic chemistry, (2006)

Patents Murph has been awarded multiple patents including a few in the year 2020:

Methods and materials for determination of distribution coefficients for separation materials, US10598599B2 Radiation Detectors Employing Contemporaneous Detection and Decontamination, US20200082954A1 Controlled Release of Hydrogen from Composite Nanoparticles, US20180319658A1