Mircea Dincă
Princeton University

Biography
Mercea is the Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. He grew up in Romania and moved to the United States for his Bachelor's degree at Princeton University, where he graduated with a BA in Chemistry in 2003.
Graduate studies in Inorganic Chemistry at UC Berkeley were followed by a postdoctoral appointment at MIT. He started his independent career in 2010 at MIT and moved his research group to Princeton in 2025. His research interests lie in the synthesis of new multifunctional materials for applications in electrical and electronic devices, heterogeneous catalysis, and various uses in clean and renewable energy.
In recognition of his group's research he has been awarded the Alan T. Waterman Award from the NSF in 2016, the ACS Award in Pure Chemistry in 2018, and the Blavatnik National Award in Chemistry in 2021, among several others. He has been named to the Thomson-Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Chemists List yearly since 2014.
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