Cornelia Bohne PhD, PChem, FCIC

Cornelia Bohne was born in São Paulo, Brazil, and studied chemistry at the Instituto de Quimica of the Universidade de São Paulo. She pursued her graduate studies at the same University under the supervision of Professor Giuseppe Cilento, where she studied the mechanism for the enzymatic generation of triplet excited states and the energy transfer from excited states to acceptors bound to biomolecules. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1987. As a post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Bohne worked with Professor Tito Scaiano at the National Research Council of Canada and the University of Ottawa. During this period she studied the photochemistry of compounds in homogenous solutions and in microheterogeneous systems, such as reversed micelles, cyclodextrins, and cells.

In 1992 Dr. Bohne accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria. She obtained tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1997 and to Full Professor in 2000. In 1998/99 Dr. Bohne was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Fritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck Gesellschaft in Berlin, working with Professor Josef Holzwarth. Dr. Bohne's research interests are in supramolecular dynamics. Supramolecular architectures are organized by intermolecular forces between components and can achieve functions that are not possible for the individual building blocks.