Dr. Silvia Jurisson was appointed to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board by President Joseph Biden on September 16, 2024..
Dr. Jurisson is Professor Emerita of Chemistry and Radiology at the University of Missouri. She has been involved in inorganic and radiochemistry research with applications to radioisotope production and separations, radiopharmaceutical chemistry, radio-environmental chemistry, and biological systems, and has trained many graduate, undergraduate, and postdoctoral students over the past 30 years. She has over 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals. She is an Associate Editor of Radiochimica Acta, and a Councilor for the Nuclear Division of the American Chemical Society (ACS). She received the John H. Hubbell Award from Elsevier in 2018, the TERACHEM Award in 2018, and the Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry from the ACS in 2012. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2014, a Fellow of the ACS in 2016, and a Fellow of the Society of Radiopharmaceutical Sciences in 2022.
Early in her career, she had postdoctoral training at the University of New South Wales (1983-1984) with Professor W. Greg Jackson, the Australian National University (1984) with Professor Alan M. Sargeson, and the University of Missouri (1984-1986) with Professor David E. Troutner. She spent five years in the pharmaceutical industry at Squibb/Bristol-Myers-Squibb before beginning her academic career at the University of Missouri in 1991. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Delaware, and her Ph.D. in inorganic and radiopharmaceutical chemistry at the University of Cincinnati.