Electronic Structure and Properties of the Transactinides and Their Compounds

Valeria G. Pershina was born in Cheliabinsk, Russia, in 1953. She received her Diploma from Mendeleev University of Chemistry and Technology (Moscow, 1977) and her Ph.D. degree (with Professors G. Ionova and V. Spitsyn) from Institute of Physical Chemistry, USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow, 1983). In the following years she worked as a researcher at the same Institute of Physical Chemistry. Since 1990 she has been at the University of Kassel (with Professor B. Fricke) and Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany. In 1994 she made a habilitation at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Her scientific interests are physical chemistry, relativistic quantum chemistry, the electronic structure of transition element, actinide, and transactinide compounds.