Valeria Molinero

Early life and education Molinero was born in Argentina. She earned her undergraduate and doctorate degrees and was a doctoral researcher at the University of Buenos Aires, where she specialized in electrochemistry.

Research and career After her PhD, Molinero moved to the California Institute of Technology and Arizona State University for postdoctoral research, working alongside Austen Angell and William Andrew Goddard III. In 2020, she investigated the smallest limits of ice, showing that in nanodroplets of fewer than 90 molecules of water it is impossible for ice to form.

Awards and honors 2005 International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam Helmholtz Award 2009 Beckman Young Investigator Award 2012 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 2019 University of Utah Distinguished Scholarly and Creative Research Award 2019 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Cozzarelli Prize 2021 Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 2022 Elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences 2022 Honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires 2023 American Physical Society Irving Langmuir Award in Chemical Physics 2023 Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Outstanding Referee Award, European Geosciences Union

Selected publications according to Google scholar her most cited publications are: