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Past Graduate Student
Education and Professional Experience
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh (2004-present) with Prof. Peter Wipf
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry; 1999-2003 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
Thesis Advisor: Professor Harry C. Dorn
Thesis Title: "Exohedral Functionalization and Applications of the Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Metallofullerenes"
B.S., Chemistry; 1995-1999 Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Research Advisor: Professor Ted J. Weismann
Research Topic: Doping of the YBCO Superconducting Ceramics with Group III-A Elements
Magna Cum Laude with Mathematics minor
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Awards and Honors
ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship sponsored by Aventis Pharmaceuticals(2002-2003)
Graduate Research Award, Virginia Tech Chemistry Department (April 2002)
American Chemical Society member (Duquesne Univ. and Virginia Tech)
Phi Lambda Upsilon Honorary Chemical Society (Virginia Tech)
Outstanding Student in Chemistry (1999, Duquesne University)
Publications
Duchamp, J. C.; Demortier, A.; Fletcher, K. R.; Dorn, D.; Iezzi, E. B.; Glass, T.; Dorn, H. C. An Isomer of the Endohedral Metallofullerene Sc3N@C80 with D5h Symmetry. Chem. Phys. Lett., 375, 655-659 (2003).
Iezzi, E. B.; Duchamp, J. C.; Fletcher, K. R.; Glass, T. E.; Dorn, H. C. Lutetium based trimetallic nitride endohedral metallofullerenes: New contrast agents. Nano Lett., 2, 1187-1190 (2002).
Iezzi, E. B.; Cromer, F.; Stevenson, P.; Dorn, H. C. Synthesis of the First Water-Soluble Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Metallofullerols. Synth. Met., 128, 289-291 (2002).
Lee, H.-M.; Olmstead, M. M.; Iezzi, E.; Duchamp, J. C.; Dorn, H. C.; Balch, A. L. Crystallographic Characterization and Structural Analysis of the First Organic Functionalization Product of the Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C80. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 3494-3495 (2002).
Iezzi, E. B.; Duchamp, J. C.; Harich, K.; Glass, T.; Lee, H. M.; Olmstead, M. M.; Balch, A. L.; Dorn, H. C. A Symmetric Derivative of the Trimetallic Nitride Endohedral Metallofullerene, Sc3N@C80. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 524-525 (2002).
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