Stella Gonsales Stella Gonsales, Ph.D., earned her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, where she was part of Dr. Adam S. Veige’s laboratory in the Department of Chemistry. She obtained her BSc and MSc degrees from University of Campinas. Her main research interests involve development of catalysts for metathesis and polymerization reactions. Technologies Efficient Synthesis of Highly Pure Cyclic Polyacetylene, a Versatile Conductive Polymer