Postdoctoral Fellows ⋅ Graduate Students ⋅ Undergraduate Students ⋅ Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
 Ph.D., Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, 2022
Advisor: Prof. Jumreang Tummatorn
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 B.Sc., Guangxi Normal University, China, 2017
Advisor: Prof. Dongliang Mo
Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Shanghai, China, 2022
Advisor: Prof. Guozhu Zhang
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 Ph.D., Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), Spain, 2023
Advisor: Prof. Ruben Martin
M.Sc., Nankai University, China, 2018
Advisor: Prof. Pingping Tang
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 Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India, 2020
Advisor: Prof. Debabrata Maiti
Postdoc, University of Freiburg, Germany, 2023
Advisor: Prof. Bernhard Briet
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 B.Sc. & M.Sc., Jiangsu Normal University, China, 2019
Advisor: Prof. Feng Shi
Ph.D., Nanjing University, China, 2023
Advisor: Prof. Shaolin Zhu
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 B.Sc., College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, 2029
Advisor: Prof. Neal Tonks
Ph.D., Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 2024
Advisor: Prof. Simon Blakey
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 Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Shanghai, China, 2017
Advisor: Prof. Yuanhong Liu
Postdoc, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany, 2021
Advisor: Prof. Manuel Alcarazo
Postdoc, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2023
Advisor: Prof. Jérôme Waser
Current Position, Assistant Professor, Soochow University, China
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Graduate Students
 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)
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 B.S., University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, 2018
M.S., Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India, 2020
Research: Enantioselective scaffolding of biocatalytically derived synthons
Advisor: Prof. Samik Nanda |
 B.S., Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2021
Research: Flow synthesis of O-linked mannosylated glycosides
Advisor: Prof. Nicola Pohl |
 B.S., Zewail City of Science & Technology, Cairo, Egypt, 2022
Research: Synthesis of anticancer chromones
Advisor: Prof. Reem Arafa |
 B.S., Jeonbuk National University, South Korea, 2016
M.S., Kobe University, Kobe, Japan, 2019
Research: Radical additions to furoxans
Advisor: Prof. Ryosuke Matsubara |
 B.S., Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, 2022
Research: Synthesis of conjugated natural carbohydrates for drug delivery
Advisor: Prof. Mo Hunsen |
 B.S., Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2020
M.S., Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2021
Research: Zr-catalyzed aziridininations
Advisor: Prof. Gustavo Moura-Letts |
 B.S., Central South University, Hunan, China, 2022
Research: Palladium photocatalysis
Advisor: Prof. Hua Yang |
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 B.S., Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, 2023
Research: Synthesis of NHC catalysts
Advisor: Prof. Ryan Van Hovelyn |
 B.S., Kent State University, Kent, OH, 2023
Research: Synthesis of aryl selenides
Advisor: Prof. Farid Fouad |
 B.S., University of Delhi, 2022
M.S., Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, 2023
Research: Synthesis of strychnine
Advisor: Prof. X |
 B.S., Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, 2024
Research: HAT Photoredox Vicinal Functionalization of Electron-Deficient Olefins
Advisor: Prof. Daniel Kim |
 B.S., University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 2024
Research: Synthesis of N-Heterocycles via Alkene Difunctionalization
Advisor: Prof. Wei Li |
 B.S., University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 2024
Research: Iron-Catalyzed C-H Alkynylations
Advisor: Prof. Yiming Wang |
 B.S., California State University, San Bernardino, CA, 2024
Research: Small molecule synthesis to study protease falcilysin
Advisor: Prof. Jeremy Mallari |
 B.S., College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 2025
Research: Stereoselective syntheses of oxygenated natural products
Advisor: Prof. Kevin Quinn |
Undergraduate Students
 B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2025
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2026 |
 B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2025
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2026
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2026 |
B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2026 |
Alumni
 Postdoc, The Ohio State University, 2014-2015
Current Position, Assistant Professor, SRM University, Chennai, India |
 B.S. with honors, The Ohio State University, 2016
Current Position, Research Assistant with Prof Craig Lindsley, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN |
 B.S. with honors, The Ohio State University, 2016
M.Eng. in Materials Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Current Position, Engineer, Lionano Inc., Boston, MA |
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 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 |
 B.S., Alabama A&M University, 2017
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 B.S., University of Notre Dame, 2018
Current Position, Graduate Student , University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, 2017
Current Position, Analyst, JPMorgan, Columbus, OH |
 B.S., The Ohio State University, 2017
Current Position, Medical Student, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV |
 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
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, 2018
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 B.S. with honors, The Ohio State University, 2018
Current Position, Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA
Advisor: Prof. Alison Wendlandt |
 B.S. with honors, The Ohio State University, 2018
M.Sc., University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA
Current Position, Research Chemist, Biogen, Cambridge, MA |
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 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
Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. David Perrin at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
 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 |
 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
Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Abbvie, Chicago, IL |
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 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
Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Janssen, San Diego, CA |
 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
Current Position, Discovery Process Chemist at Merck, San Francisco, CA |
 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 |
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 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 |
 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 |
 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
Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Merck, San Francisco, CA |
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 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 |
 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
Current Position, Discovery Chemist at Corteva Agriscience, Indianapolis, IN
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 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 |
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 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
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 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 |
 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
Previous Position, Assistant Professor, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang, China
Current Position, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, 2020
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, 2020
Current Position, Chemist, Eli Lilly, Lilly Genetic Medicines, Indianapolis, IN |
 B.S., The Ohio State University, 2020
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 B.S., Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 2017
Research: Synthesis of vanillin-based PEEK polymers
Advisor: Prof. William Feld
Current Position, Process Chemist at Merck, Rahway, NJ |
 B.S., Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, 2017
Research: Enantioselective halogenation, and amino acid electroanalysis
Advisors: Profs. Swain and Borhan
Current Position, Cosmetic Chemist at Croda, Princeton, NJ |
B.S., St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN, 2017
Research: Synthesis of aromatic azo inhibitors of tyrosine phosphatases
Advisor: Prof. Edward McIntee
Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Pfizer, San Diego, CA |
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 B.S., Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2018
Research: Green synthesis of sulfonyl ureas
Advisor: Prof. Gustavo Moura-Letts
Current Position, Process Chemist at GSK, Philadelphia, PA |
 B.S., Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, 2018
Research: Photocatalylic cyclizations of heterocycles
Advisor: Prof. Gustavo Moura-Letts
Current Position, Lecturer at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
 B.S., Indiana Wesleyan University, IN, 2017
M.S., Duke University, Durham, NC, 2021
Research: Photoredox Ni-catalyzed reactions
Advisor: Prof. Jennifer Roizen
Current Position, Lecturer at Wright State University, Dayton, OH |
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, 2023
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, 2023
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, 2022
Current Position, Medicinal Chemist at Pfizer, Groton, CT |
 B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2023
Current Position, Medicinal Chemist Intern at Cytokinetics, San Franciso, CA |
 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
Current Position, Assistant Professor at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Shanghai, China |
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 B.S., The Ohio State University, Expected 2024
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 B.S., Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 2019
Research: Hydrogenolysis of Cysteine Perfluoroaryl Thioethers
Advisor: Prof. Jason Gavenonis
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 B.S., University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 2019
Research: Electropolymerization of Organic Semiconducting Triblock Copolymers
Advisor: Prof. Davita Watkins |
 B.S., Villanova University Villanova, PA, 2019
Research: Structure elucidation of asymmetric halonium ions
Advisor: Prof. Brian Ohta |
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 B.S., La Salle University, Phila, PA, 2020
Research: Elucidation of natural products from honey bees
Advisor: Profs. William Price and Zeb Kramer
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 B.S., University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV, 2020
Research: Ni-catalyzed C-H trifluoromethylation
Advisor: Prof. Jessica Hoover
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 B.S., University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 2020
Research: Synthesis of emissive NIR dyes in solar cells
Advisor: Prof. Jared Delcamp |