{"id":2,"date":"2019-11-13T18:41:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-05-23T21:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:45:40","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong><em>Research Assistant Professor<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333399\"><strong><em>Department of Chemistry &amp; Biochemistry, <\/em><em>Old Dominion University<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong>Physical Sciences Bldg II, Room 1104D (COSMIC Laboratory), 4402 Elkhorn Ave, Norfolk, VA, 23529.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-luminous-vivid-orange-color has-text-color\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Postmail address: Chemistry Bldg., Old Dominion University. 4501 Elkhorn Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23529.<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/silvina-pagola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"122\" height=\"122\" src=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17032\/2022\/08\/In.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-268\" style=\"width:61px;height:61px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\"><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong><em>E-mail:<\/em> spagola@odu.edu\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br><span style=\"color: #333333\"><strong><em>TEL:<\/em> (757)-254-7165\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><a rel=\"me noopener noreferrer\" style=\"vertical-align:top\" href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2083-7599\" target=\"orcid.widget\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/orcid_16x16.png\" style=\"width:1em;margin-right:.5em\" alt=\"ORCID iD icon\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2083-7599<\/a><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/research-interests\/\" target=\"_blank\">RESEARCH INTERESTS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Mechanochemistry and Crystal Engineering.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kinetics and mechanisms of mechanochemical reactions in ball mills. <em>In situ<\/em> and<em> ex situ <\/em>kinetics monitoring by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffraction. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Synthesis and study of the properties of pharmaceutical drug-drug cocrystals and salts. Organic ferroelectric cocrystals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Direct-space methods for crystal structure determination from X-ray powder diffraction.&nbsp;Rietveld analysis.&nbsp;Single crystal X-ray diffraction. Microcrystal electron diffraction (microED). Instructional materials for users of free-distribution powder diffraction software.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\"><strong>Biographical Sketch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born and raised in the city of C\u00f3rdoba, Argentina. I earned a Licentiate in Chemistry degree in 1992 with coursework oriented to Physical Chemistry, at the National University of C\u00f3rdoba. In 1997, I defended my doctoral thesis in Solid-State Chemistry at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, National University of C\u00f3rdoba. I synthesized ternary transition metal oxides and studied their properties using various techniques, including X-ray powder diffraction, neutron powder diffraction, Rietveld analysis, Raman spectroscopy, FT-IR reflectivity, and electrical resistivity measurements as a function of temperature. After my doctoral thesis, I worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (1998-2000) at the SUNY X3B1 X-ray powder diffraction beamline at the NSLS-I, Brookhaven National Laboratory-SUNY at Stony Brook, Department of Physics and Astronomy, wherein I learned about direct-space methods to solve crystal structures from synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction, by then a rather new field. I returned to C\u00f3rdoba for around two years as a researcher and teacher, later I worked at the pharmaceutical company Apotex Inc (Toronto, Canada) as a specialist in X-ray powder diffraction, and in 2007 I returned to the USA as a postdoctoral researcher at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA. I stayed there as a Research Scientist II in the Department of Applied Science, while I initiated research work in mechanochemistry for the synthesis of charge transfer complexes of tetrathiafulvalene and their solid-state characterization, including crystal structure determination from powders. Since 2018, I have been a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Old Dominion University. My current research work with undergraduate and graduate students focuses on: (1) The investigation of the kinetics of mechanochemical reactions in ball mills with the objective of determining their activation energies and mechanisms, using <em>in situ<\/em> Raman spectroscopy, X-ray powder diffraction and various other solid-state characterization techniques. (2) The synthesis and solid-state characterization of organic cocrystals and salts including pharmaceutical drug combinations. For additional details, see <a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/research-interests\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Chemistry &amp; Biochemistry, Old Dominion University Physical Sciences Bldg II, Room 1104D (COSMIC Laboratory), 4402 Elkhorn Ave, Norfolk, VA, 23529. Postmail address: Chemistry Bldg., Old Dominion University. 4501 Elkhorn Avenue, Norfolk, VA, 23529. E-mail: spagola@odu.edu\u00a0TEL: (757)-254-7165\u00a0 https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2083-7599 RESEARCH INTERESTS Biographical Sketch I was born and raised in the city of C\u00f3rdoba, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13317,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/spagola\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}