Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović

Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović (* 1971 in Belgrade ) is a professor and holder of the chair for bioinorganic chemistry and coordination chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

Life

Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović grew up in Belgrade as the daughter of a lawyer and an art historian . She started school early and completed high school in a year shortened, so that she began studying chemistry at the University of Belgrade at the age of 17 . In 1991 she stayed in Chicago for a three-month study visit. After four years, she graduated with honors in 1993 and wrote her master's thesis on metal-controlled biological processes. She received her PhD in 1997 at the age of 29.

In 2001 Ivanović-Burmazović received a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , on the basis of which she held a post-doctoral position with Rudi van Eldik . With her project Ligand substitution and reaction mechanisms of pentagonalbipyramidal complexes. Identification of hepta-coordinate species in solution , she researched metal-containing molecules in solutions .

Ivanović-Burmazović was the first to take over the Chair of Bioinorganic Chemistry at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, which was founded in 2008 . Since June 1, 2020, Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović has held the Chair of Bioinorganic Chemistry and Coordination Chemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . She was editor of the journal BioInorganic Reaction Mechanisms until the journal was discontinued in 2013.

Research focus

Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović works together with a research group primarily on the elucidation of metal-controlled biological processes on the molecular level. It pursues the goal of making their application in the pharmacological sense, as well as the use in bio-inspired catalysis and biotechnology manageable. It is essential to understand their redox properties and the catalytic or active mechanisms. Another goal of her research is to create a basis for pursuing a general concept of redox-active metal complexes as potential pharmaceuticals , so that future design and screening of redox-selective compounds that meet the requirements for biomedical application is made possible.

Patents

• Registered with the European Patent Office in 2011 , together with Milos Filipović: Removal of Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S): Catalytic oxidation of sulphide species

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silvia Klein and Elisabeth Preuß (eds.): We are Erlangen . Edition Spielberg, Erlangen 2010, ISBN 978-3-938903-23-0 , p. 56-58 .
2. ↑ BioInorganic Reaction Mechanisms . De Gruyter, accessed December 26, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Ivanovic-Burmazovic working group. (No longer available online.) University of Erlangen, archived from the original on July 10, 2013 ; Retrieved December 26, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ patents. (No longer available online.) University of Erlangen, archived from the original on May 26, 2013 ; Retrieved December 26, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Ivana Ivanović-Burmazović. researchgate.net, accessed December 26, 2014 .