Silvana Andreescu

Focus

Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, bioelectrochemistry, bionanotechnology

Biography

Silvana Andreescu is a courtesy professor at the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work. She has received a PhD in Chemistry, specializing in biosensors from the University of Perpignan, France, and University of Bucharest, Romania in 2002, and has been a member of the Clarkson faculty since 2005. Between 2003 and 2005 she was a NSF-NATO postdoctoral fellow at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Her research interests are in analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, bioelectrochemistry, bionanotechnology and the development of practical biosensors for clinical and environmental monitoring. She pioneered a variety of sensing platforms that incorporate nanomaterial interfaces to advance the transduction of chemical and biological information into analytical signals for detection and qualification of clinical, food and environmental targets. Recent work involves the use of oxygen rich, redox active nanomaterials for biomolecular sensing, and the development of nanotechnology-enabled sensors and devices that have a built-in detection mechanism and can be easily used for real time measurements in biological systems. She is the recipient of a French Government Graduate Fellowship, a NATO-NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, the NSF-CAREER award, the John W. Graham Faculty Research Award, the Research Excellence Award at Clarkson University. She has published over 180 peer-reviewed publications, co-edited 3 books, was awarded 3 patents and has delivered some 250 presentations throughout the world.