Tulay A. Atesin received her Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Rochester under the supervision of Professor William D. Jones working on the mechanisms of strong bond activation reactions. After her postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2007 to 2009 and Northwestern University from 2009 to 2011, she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater from 2011 to 2013. She is currently an assistant professor in the Chemistry Department at The University of Texas-Pan American, working on the synthesis and characterization of ligands, metal complexes and nanoparticles, studying reaction mechanisms using experimental and computational methods. She received a 2008 Young Investigator Award from the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Tulay A. Atesin received her Ph.D. in 2007 from the University of Rochester under the supervision of Professor William D. Jones working on the mechanisms of strong bond activation reactions. After her postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2007 to 2009 and Northwestern University from 2009 to 2011, she taught at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater from 2011 to 2013. She is currently an assistant professor in the Chemistry Department at The University of Texas-Pan American, working on the synthesis and characterization of ligands, metal complexes and nanoparticles, studying reaction mechanisms using experimental and computational methods. She received a 2008 Young Investigator Award from the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry

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