Svetlana Mintova

Svetlana Mintova is Director of Research, 1^st class in CNRS, Laboratory of Catalysis and Spectroscopy, Normandy University, France, Invited Professor in China University of Petroleum, Qingdao, China and Research Director of the Sino-French International Laboratory, LIA “Zeolites”.

Mintova received her PhD in physical chemistry in the Technological University of Sofia, Bulgaria. She did Post-Doctoral study in Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, and then she spent 2 years as Visiting Scholar in Purdue University, USA. She was appointed as C2 (docent) at the Department of Chemistry, University of Munich (LMU), Germany.

Mintova is the receiver of the Baron Axel Cronstedt award from the Federation of European Zeolite Associations (FEZA) 2014, the Donald Breck award from the International Zeolite Association (IZA) 2016, the “Le Prix La Recherche Chimie” 2016, the Shandong international science and technology cooperation award 2019, and the Qingdao award in recognition for social and research contributions 2019.

She is the Associate Editor of Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, RSC and Member

of Editorial Board of Materials: Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology.

Mintova is the Council member of the IZA, FEZA and GFZ, and the Chair of the “Synthesis Commission” of the IZA.

Her scientific interests include preparation of porous materials, nanosized zeolites, films, coatings, composites and related applications.

Mintova is in the top 2 % of the most-cited scientists in the world according to Stanford University standardized citation metrics for all scientific disciplines and the top 1% for 2019 (https://lnkd.in/gHaDgiF).