Dr. Aviva Levina obtained her PhD in 1992 from Riga Technical University, Latvia. Following a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Jacques Muzart at the University of Reims, France (as a French government scholar), she joined Prof. Lay’s group in 1995. Since 2001, she has been a senior research associate at the School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Australia. Her main research interest is the mechanistic studies of the biological activities of transition metal complexes.