Dr. Lisa Olshansky is an American Chemistry Society Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral fellow. She works with Prof. Andrew Borovik in the Department of Chemistry. Lisa is constructing multinuclear artificial metalloproteins in which a synthetic metallocofactor is inserted into a protein host, which can be further modified through mutagenesis. With this, the effects of secondary sphere interactions on modulating the molecular and electronic structures of multinuclear metal complexes are explored. These artificial active sites mimic important natural metalloenzymes such as that responsible for driving oxygenic photosynthesis.
Lisa received her Ph.D. from MIT, where she focused on understanding the kinetics and dynamics driving long-range proton-coupled electron transfer in ribonucleotide reductase.