Daniela Wilson received her higher education in Iași, completing her BSc degree in Chemistry and Physics with distinction at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University in 2001 and an MSc in Environmental Chemistry with distinction at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in 2003.
She subsequently obtained her PhD in macro-molecular chemistry from Gheorghe Asachi in 2007 under the supervision of Dan Scutaru.
Her doctoral thesis on “research into the relationship between structure and properties in mesogenic systems” was awarded summa cum laude.
[1] Wilson moved to the United States in 2007 as a research fellow at University of Pennsylvania where she joined the group of Professor Virgil Percec.
[1] Her early career focused on studying the effects of shape on the self-assembly of liquid crystalline materials,[2] and methodology in organic synthesis utilising nickel mediated cross-coupling reactions.