Natalia Dubrovinskaia

Natalia Dubrovinskaia (born 18 February 1961) is a Swedish geologist of Russian origin.

Education
In 1983, Natalia Dubrovinskaia earned a Master of Science degree in geochemistry from Moscow State University and she received her PhD in crystallography and crystal physics at the same institution 6 years later. Working as a senior researcher fellow until 2007, she finished the Habilitation of    crystallography and Umhabilitation the following year at University of Bayreuth, Germany. In 2011, she had worked as a staff scientist at the University of Heidelberg.

Career
Dubrovinskaia was a research fellow at the Ministry of Geology and a post-doctoral researcher at Uppsala University.

In 2005, Dubrovinskaia led a team of researchers from the University of Bayreuth who were reported to have produced aggregated diamond nanorods from fullerene under high temperatures and pressures. Two years earlier, large samples of nanodiamond were produced in a cheaper way (from graphite) and discovered to be harder than diamond by Japanese researchers. Dubrovinskaia worked at the Heidelberg University in Germany as a Privatdozent and senior scientist from 2007 to 2011.

Since then, Natalia Dubrovinskaia returns to University of Bayreuth and employed as Professor of Materials Physics and Technology at Extreme Conditions.

Natalia Dubrovinskaia is currently the Editor-in-chief for the International Journal of Materials and Chemistry

Natalia Dubrovinskaia is currently the Editor-in-chief for the International Journal of Materials and Chemistry

Personal life
Dubrovinskaia is married to Leonid Dubrovinsky, a geoscientist at University of Bayreuth. Together both her and her husband have been working as a scientific couple for the past four decades.

Research
Throughout the career of Professor Dubrovinskaia, she has published over 222 papers cover a variety of topics but mostly focus on Crystallography, Diamond anvil cell, Analytical chemistry, Diffraction and Diamond. Her extensive research in the field of biology encompasses various subjects, such as X-ray crystallography, Bulk modulus, and Boron. Additionally, her investigation using Diamond anvil cell focuses on areas like Mineralogy, specifically related to Mantle and Stishovite, as well as Thermodynamics, which has connections to fields like Core. Her works in Analytical chemistry encompasses Ab initio quantum chemistry methods and Ambient pressure, while her Diffraction study integrates various areas including Elasticity, Phase transition, Single crystal, Synchrotron, and Isostructural. Her investigation delves into the correlation between Diamond and topics such as Chemical engineering, which intersect with challenges in Metal-related issues. She has also done research into a new method of synthesising rare earth-metal compounds. In this research her main area of focus was on exploring the intriguing reactivity of alkali halides, like common table salt NaCl, when subjected to high pressure in the presence of rare-earth metals such as Yttrium and Dysprosium.

Publications
Natalia Dubrovinskaia has been an author or affiliate of these publications: