Silvia Braslavsky
Silvia Elsa Braslavsky (born April 5, 1942 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine chemist. She is the daughter of educationist and biochemist Lázaro Braslavsky, and the sister of Cecilia Braslavsky, educationist and erstwhile director of the International Bureau of Education of UNESCO. She has two daughters, sociologist and Carolina Klockow. Braslavsky has worked extensively in the domain of photobiology and she is a specialist in experimental photooptoacoustics. She was senior research scientist and Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry (now renamed "Bioinorganic Chemistry") until her retirement in 2007. Scientific career. Braslavsky read chemistry at the  University of Buenos Aires but left Argentina after the "night of the long batons". While being a research assistant in Santiago de Chile she defended her PhD at the University of Buenos Aires. Following temporary positions at Penn State University (1969-1972), the National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina (1972-1975), again Penn State (1975) and the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada (1975), she moved to the Max Planck Institute for Radiation Chemistry in Mülheim, Germany (1976), where she stayed until her retirement in 2007. Functions. Braslavsky holds numerous official positions in the scientific field of chemistry. Since 2000  she is the chair of the IUPAC subcommittee on photochemistry. Since 2006 she is a corresponding member of CONICET and is a member of the international scientific advisory committee of INQUIMAE (Institute for Chemistry of Materials, Environment and Energy). Currently, she is chair and main organiser of the 16th International Conference on Photobiology, to be held in Cordoba, Argentina in 2014. Since 2010 she is a member of the representative panel of the RCAA ("Red de Científicos Argentinos en Alemania", i.e. the Network of Argentine Scientists in Germany).