Dr. Lyudmila M. Bronstein is a senior scientist at the Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington. Prior to this, she was a leading scientist at the Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds. She holds an M.S. (1974) degree with honors from Kalinin Polytechnic Institute, Russia, and a Ph.D. (1979) from the Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds, Moscow, Russia. Her research program focuses on developing new materials with important applications in the fields of energy, catalysis, and life sciences. Her research group has been working on making solid polymer electrolytes and electrodes for Li-ion batteries with enhanced performance, efficient and selective catalytic systems based on nanostructured polymers, and multifunctional magnetic nanoparticles as bioprobes.