Staff

Name Zins Emilie-Laure
Position Postdoctoral Fellow

Emilie-Laure Zins

Emilie-Laure Zins, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow


Gas-Phase Chemistry
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry ASCR, v.v.i.
Flemingovo nám. 2, CZ-166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Phone: (+420) 220 183 117

Education
2009 Ph.D. in theoretical, analytical and physical chemistry, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
2006 Post-graduate diploma of fundamental chemistry, Specialization: theoretical and physical chemistry, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
2005 Master of fundamental chemistry, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
2004 Chemistry degree, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
2001 - 2003 Second year university diploma (D.E.U.G.) of science, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
2001 High school diploma scientific.
 
Appoitments
2008-2009 Teaching - general chemistry (78 hours, Ecole de Condé, France).
2008 Teaching - general chemistry (60 hours, Institut National du Patrimoine, France).
2006-2008 Teaching - general chemistry, analytical chemistry and physical chemistry (100urs, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France).
2006 5 months study of the formation of complexes between nucleic bases and cations, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France.
2005 3 months proposition of a method to determine the presence of judas bitumen in archeologic objects using mass spectrometry in combination with gas phase chromatography, Institut National du Patrimoine (INP).
2004 6 weeks study of prehistorical pigments Laboratoires de Recherche des Musées de France.
2002 5 weeks of analysing of prehistorical pigments, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de Paris (ESPCI).
 
Research interest

During my stay in the UOCHB, I will study the catalytic effect of oxovanadium complexes on the reactivity of alcohols, using ESI/MS experiments. I will compare the results obtained in the gas phase with those previously obtained in the liquid phase. The aim of this study is to put on light the reaction pathways involving during these reactions. I will also study the gas phase reactivity of some species of interstellar interest, and more precisely the reactivity of dications formed by electric ionisation from aromatic molecules. Such reactions could take place in the ionosphere of Titan, and the mass spectra obtained during this study will be compared to those taken by the Cassini-Huygens probe. The aim of this study is to propose a kinetic model for the reactions of formations of different ions from methane.