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11 Facts About Serena DeBeer

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Serena DeBeer was born on 1973 and is an American chemist.

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Serena DeBeer is currently a W3-Professor and the director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion in Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany, where she heads the Department of Inorganic Spectroscopy.

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Serena DeBeer studied at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, where she completed her bachelor program in chemistry, with minor in mathematics in 1995.

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Serena DeBeer received her doctorate from Stanford University in 2002, working under the guidance of Edward I Solomon and Keith O Hodgson.

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Serena DeBeer then moved to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, where she worked first as a beamline scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, and later as staff scientist.

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Since 2024, Serena DeBeer has held an honorary faculty position at University Duisburg-Essen.

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Serena DeBeer is an expert in the application of advanced X-ray spectroscopy to understand catalytic transformations.

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Spectroscopic studies in the Serena DeBeer group have provided new insights into the structure of this diiron complex.

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Recent work of Serena DeBeer's group has focused on developing the full information content of various X-ray spectroscopic methods and their application to biological catalysts.

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Serena DeBeer's group expanded the information that can be obtained from XMCD of covalent systems.

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The Serena DeBeer group is leading the development of the PINK beamline at the Energy Materials In-situ Laboratory at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin.