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Postdoctoral Fellows & Visiting Scholars

Dr. Lumin Zhang

B.Sc., Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China, 2013

M.Sc., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Shanghai, China, 2016

Advisor: Prof. Jun Yang & Ran Hong

Ph.D., Heidelberg University, Germany, 2020

Advisor: Prof. Stephen Hashmi

Pavitra Laohapaisan

Ph.D., Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022

Advisor: Prof. Jumreang Tummatorn

Royal Golden Jubilee Scholar Award, Kingdom of Thailand, 2020

Graduate Students

James Herbort B.S., Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 2017 Research: Synthesis of vanillin-based PEEK polymers Advisor: Prof. William Feld ACS Organic Division Undergraduate Award, 2017 OSU Hayes Research Forum, Grand Prize, 2021	Joy Rutherford B.S., Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, 2017 Research: Enantioselective halogenation, and amino acid electroanalysis Advisors: Profs. Swain and Borhan National Institutes of Health (NIH) Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, 2019 OSU Arts & Sciences Fellow, 2017-2019	Raymond Twumasi B.S., St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN, 2017 Research: Synthesis of aromatic azo inhibitors of tyrosine phosphatases Advisor: Prof. Edward McIntee National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow, 2019 OSU Discovery Scholars Fellow, 2017-2018 NOBCChE Advancing Science Award, 2018 Merck Research Award for Underrepresented Chemists of Color, 2021
Ross Dare B.S., Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2018 Research: Green synthesis of sulfonyl ureas Advisor: Prof. Gustavo Moura-Letts	Shania Hayward B.S., Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, 2018 Research: Synthesis of alkylbutyrolactones Advisors: Profs. Joseph Mullins and Nancy Totah ACS Organic Division Undergraduate Award, 2018	Alyson Paneque B.S., Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2018 Research: Photocatalylic cyclizations of heterocycles Advisor: Prof. Gustavo Moura-Letts National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Honoree, 2020
Taylor Bednar B.S., Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2019 Research: Hydrogenolysis of Cysteine Perfluoroaryl Thioethers Advisor: Prof. Jason Gavenonis National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Honoree, 2021	Young Ngo B.S., University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 2019 Research: Electropolymerization of Organic Semiconducting Triblock Copolymers Advisor: Profs. Davita Watkins	Henry Sise B.S., Villanova University Villanova, PA, 2019 Research: Structure elucidation of asymmetric halonium ions Advisor: Prof. Brian Ohta
Jacob Garwood B.S., La Salle University, Phila, PA, 2020 Research: Elucidation of natural products from honey bees Advisor: Profs. William Price and Zeb Kramer OSU Distinguished University Fellow, 2020	Joseph Lokant B.S., University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV, 2020 Research: Ni-catalyzed C-H trifluoromethylation Advisor: Prof. Jessica Hoover ACS Organic Division Undergraduate Award, 2020	Khue Nguyen B.S., University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 2020 Research: Synthesis of emissive NIR dyes in solar cells Advisor: Profs. Jared Delcamp
Bethany DeMuynck B.S., University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 2019 Research: Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics and proteomics Advisor: Prof. Dwight Matthews Experience: Synthesis of DNA-encoded libraries (GSK) OSU Distinguished University Fellow, 2021	Ipshita Roy B.S., University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, 2018 M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, 2020 Research: Enantioselective scaffolding of biocatalytically derived synthons Advisor: Prof. Samik Nanda	Meredith Rudich B.S., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2021 Research: Flow synthesis of O-linked mannosylated glycosides Advisor: Profs. Nicola Pohl

Undergraduate Students

Gary Gong B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2023 OSU Kraska Chemistry Scholar, 2021-2022	Amir Johnson B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2024 OSU MUSE Scholar, 2020-2024	Lauren Scott B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2022 OSU MUSE Scholar, 2020-2022
Liza Ryutov B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2023 American Chemical Society, President of OSU Chapter, 2022 OSU McFarling Chemistry Scholar, 2022	Hayat Mohammed B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2025 OSU MUSE Scholar, 2022-2025

Alumni

Dr. Namitharan Kayambu Postdoc, The Ohio State University, 2014-2015 Current Position, Assistant Professor, SRM University, Chennai, India	Trevor Chopko B.S. with honors, The Ohio State University, 2016 OSU Honors & Scholars Center Undergraduate Research Fellow, 2015-2016 Research Intern, Translational Biomarker Imaging, Merck, PA. Current Position, Research Assistant with Prof Craig Lindsley, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN	Kui Pan B.S. with honors, The Ohio State University, 2016 OSU College of Arts & Sciences Honors Program Undergraduate Research Scholar, 2015-2016 M.Eng. in Materials Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Current Position, Engineer, Lionano Inc., Boston, MA
Dr. Mathieu Bekkaye B.Sc., University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Île-de-France, France, 2009 M.Sc., University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, 2011 Ph.D., Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles, Paris, France, 2014 Advisor: Prof. Géraldine Masson Postdoc, The Ohio State University, 2015-2016 Current Position, Engineer, Chromatotec, Bordeaux, France	Kevin Marchbanks-Owens B.S., Alabama A&M University, 2017 Research Fellow, Summer 2016	Hannah Naguib B.S., University of Notre Dame, 2018 Research Fellow, Summer 2016 Current Position, Graduate Student , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Melissa Bettinger B.S., The Ohio State University, 2017 Current Position, Analyst, JPMorgan, Columbus, OH	Ahmad Dahman B.S., The Ohio State University, 2017 Current Position, Medical Student, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV	Dr. Avassaya Vanitcha B.Sc., Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, 2011 M.Sc., Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 2012 Ph.D., Sorbonne Universités, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 2015 Advisors: Profs. Louis Fensterbank and Virginie Mouriès-Mansuy Current Position, Research Scientist at SCG Chemical, a Dow affiliate, Bangkok, Thailand
Kara Edwards B.S., The Ohio State University, 2018 OSU Bertram Thomas Scholar, 2017 OSU Mayers Undergraduate Research Fellow, Summer 2017 Current Position, Graduate Student, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH	Xin Gu B.S. with honors, The Ohio State University, 2018 OSU Bertram Thomas Scholar, 2016 OSU Kraska Endowed Fellow, 2017 OSU Mayers Undergraduate Research Fellow, Summer 2017 American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Organic Chemistry Undergraduate Award, 2018 Current Position, Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA Advisor: Prof. Alison Wendlandt	Darsheed (Ani) Mustafa B.S. with honors, The Ohio State University, 2018 OSU Gary Booth Undergraduate Scholar, 2016 OSU Mayers Undergraduate Research Fellow, Summer 2016 American Chemical Society (ACS) Undergraduate Research Scholar, 2016-2017 Pelotonia Undergraduate Research Fellow, 2017-2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow, 2018 M.Sc., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA Current Position, Research Chemist, Biogen, Cambridge, MA
Chido Hambira Co-advisor: Prof. James Fuchs, Dept of Medicinal Chemistry & Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy B.S., Berea College, 2012 Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2018 Thesis: Post-synthetic Functionalization of Bioactive Compounds Albeit H. Soloway (OSU) Graduate Fellow, 2015 Jane Chen (OSU) Graduate Fellow, 2016 Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. David Perrin at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Michael Smith Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2019 Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Vancouver, BC, Canada	Dr. Lu Wang Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Shanghai, China, 2013 Advisor: Prof. Yuanhong Liu Postdoc, Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan, 2014 Advisor: Prof. Masakatsu Shibasaki Current Position, Process Chemist at Merck Process, Rahway, NJ	Stacy Fosu B.S., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011 M.S., Illinois State University, 2014 Thesis: Synthesis of novel benziporphyrins Advisor: Prof. Timothy Lash Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2019 Thesis: Functionalization of Arenes, Amines, Alkenes, and Alkynes Mediated by Radical Pathways Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellow, 2016 Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Abbvie, Chicago, IL
Kohki Nakafuku B.S., Duke University, 2014 Thesis: Gold-catalyzed allene isomerizations Advisor: Prof. Ross Widenhoefer Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2019 Thesis: Radical Relay Strategies for C–H Functionalization of Alcohols Journal of Organic Chemistry (JOC) Outstanding Article of the Year, 2020 Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Janssen, San Diego, CA	Ethan Wappes B.S., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2014 Thesis: Electrochemical ring‐expansions Advisor: Prof. Dennis Peters Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2019 Thesis: Radical sp3 C-H Functionalization of Amines and Alcohols Charles E. Waring (OSU) Graduate Fellow, 2014 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Honoree, 2016 ACS Division of Organic Chemistry (DOC) Travel Award, 2017 The Ohio State University Presidential Fellowship, 2018 Current Position, Discovery Process Chemist at Merck, San Francisco, CA	Jeremy Lear B.S., Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 2012 M.S., Wright State University, Dayton, OH 2014 Thesis: Synthesis of new DP-PPVs Advisor: Prof. William Feld Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2019 Thesis: Polarity-Reversal Cascades for the Coupling of Radicals with Unsaturated Systems Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Christopher Hadad at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH Current Position, Process Chemist at Pilot Chemical, Cincinnati, OH
Andrew Chen B.S., Pitzer College, Claremont, CA Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2020 Thesis: Harnessing New Radical Reactivity at the Interface of Synthetic Methodology Development and Computational Modeling Current Position, Process Chemist at Millipore Sigma, Madison, WI	Sean Rafferty B.S., Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA 2015 Thesis: Cu(II)-catalyzed hydroborations Advisor: Prof. Webster Santos Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2020 Thesis: Selective Ketyl Couplings via Atom Transfer Catalysis Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA	Leah Stateman B.S., Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 2015 Thesis: Syntheses of carbaporphyrinoids Advisor: Prof. Timothy Lash Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2020 Thesis: Catalytic Strategies for Remote C-H Functionalization of Alcohols and Amines National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellow, 2016 Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Merck, San Francisco, CA
J. Quentin Buquoi III Lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force B.S., University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2000 M.S., Wright State University, Dayton, OH 2010 Thesis: Poly(arylene ether) polymers Advisor: Prof. Eric Fossum Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2019 Thesis: Multicomponent Radical Reactions Incorporating Heteroatom-Carbon Bonds via Polarity-Reversal Cascades Current Position, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, CO	Allen Prusinowski B.S., Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, 2016 Thesis: Synthesis of curcuminoids Advisor: Prof. Joseph Mullins Ph.D. The Ohio State University, 2021 Thesis: Double Functionalizations of Alcohols via Imidate Radicals ACS Organic Division Undergraduate Award, 2015 OSU University Fellowship, 2016 Current Position, Discovery Chemist at Corteva Agriscience, Indianapolis, IN	Shania Hayward B.S., Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY, 2018 Research: Synthesis of alkylbutyrolactones Advisors: Profs. Joseph Mullins & Nancy Totah ACS Organic Division Undergraduate Award, 2018 M.Sc. The Ohio State University, 2021 Thesis: Photochemical & Electrochemical C-H Functionalizations via Imidate Radicals Current Position, Chemist at Ask Chemicals, Columbus, OH
Dr. Jennifer C. Walters B.Sc., Arcadia University, Glenside, PA, 2013 M.Sc., Arcadia University, Glenside, PA, 2014 Advisor: Prof. Barry Logan Ph.D., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2019 Advisor: Prof. Sarah Wengryniuk Current Position, Lecturer, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH	Dr. Xin Zhang B.Sc., Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 2009 Ph.D., Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, 2014 Advisor: Prof. William Wulff Postdoc, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2017 Advisor: Prof. Robert Knowles Current Position, Process Chemist at Enanta, Boston, MA	Dr. Zuxiao Zhang B.Sc., Shandong University, Jinan, China, 2009 M.Sc., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Shanghai, China, 2012 Advisor: Prof. Guosheng Liu Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 2016 Advisor: Prof. William Dolbier Jr Current Position, Assistant Professor, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang, China
Brian Daniels B.S., The Ohio State University, 2020 OSU Mayers Summer Scholar, 2019 OSU College of Arts & Sciences Research Scholar, 2019-2020 Current Position, Graduate Student with Prof. Vy Dong, University of California, Irvine, CA National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Honoree, 2022	Sean McGivern B.S., The Ohio State University, 2020 Current Position, Chemist, Eli Lilly, Lilly Genetic Medicines, Indianapolis, IN	Meghan Shea B.S., The Ohio State University, 2020 OSU Morrill Scholar, 2016-2020 Dept of Chemistry Undergraduate Research Fellow, Summer 2018 Current Position, Consultant, Accenture Life Sciences, Columbus, OH