What to know about Masha:
comes from: Russia
career/education: 
2007-2009 researcher , University of Lille, France
2010 Master degree, diploma with honors, High Chemical College of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
2010-2013 PhD student, University of Vienna, Austria
2013 researcher, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Awards:
First prize of Falling Walls Lab Competition 2012 “Breaking the walls of anticancer therapy” Vienna, Austria
Second prize of D. I. Mendeleev´s Competition of Research Projects for Undergraduate Students 2008
First prize of Young Scientists Work Competition of A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds RAS, 2008
Russian Academy of Sciences fellowship 2007, 2008, 2009
Hobbies: singing, playing piano, dancing, teaching
Languages: Russian, English, German, French
What she thinks of herself:
I always smile.
What her labmates think of her:
Miss Smarty
Masha is a girl from russia who loves chemistry
and singing! She taught me many things
Very patient
Masha is very friendly and genius, a very good chemist who loves dancing and singing. Cheerful personality!
Nice smile
Best teacher
Loving, caring, dedicated to work
Publications:
Maria V. Babak, Samuel M. Meier, Alexander Roller, Anton A. Legin, Michael A. Jakupec, Bernhard K. Keppler, Christian G. Hartinger. Am(m)ines Make the Difference: Organometallic Ru(ammine) Complexes and Their Chemistry in Anticancer Drug Development. Chemistry – A European Journal, in press, 2013
Dmitry S. Perekalin, Maria V. Babak, Eduard E. Karslyan, Yulia V. Nelyubina and Alexander R. Kudinov. Synthesis and Reactivity of Iron and Ruthenium complexes [(H5-Indenyl)M(H6-Indene)]+ (M = Fe, Ru). Inorganica Chimica Acta, 392, 73-76, 2012
Dmitry S. Perekalin, Maria V. Babak, Valentin V. Novikov, Pavel V. Petrovskii, Konstantin A. Lyssenko and Alexander R. Kudinov. (Mesitylene)ruthenium L-complexes with benzo-15-crown-5 and dibenzo-18-crown-6, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 695(8), 1200-1204, 2010
Dmitry S. Perekalin, Maria V. Babak, Valentin V. Novikov, Pavel V. Petrovskii, Konstantin A. Lyssenko, Maddalena Corsini, Pierro Zanello and Alexander R. Kudinov. A new approach to the photochemically controlled crown ethers: (tetramethylcyclobutadiene)cobalt complexes with benzo-15-crown-5 and dibenzo-18-crown-6, Organometallics, 27, 15, 3654-3658, 2007
