Simona Hunyadi Murph is a Romanian-American scientist, engineer, inventor at Savannah River National Laboratory (Aiken, South Carolina),[1] and she is an adjunct professor in the physics and astronomy department[2] at the University of Georgia (in Athens, Georgia, United States).
[3] As a young child, Simona was inspired to study chemistry both by her mother's elaborate Romanian cooking and by scientist Marie Curie's life.
[4] She received her Bachelor of Science in Chemistry & Physics in 1995 from Babeș-Bolyai University, in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
In 2007, Murph obtained her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemistry/Nanotechnology at the University of South Carolina (in Columbia, SC).
[1] One project she founded and manages is the Group for Innovation & Advancements in Nano-Technology Sciences (GIANTS).