Group Members

Current Group Members

Courtney Sever

5th Year Ph.D. Candidate

Inorganic Division

Project: Tethered Metallacyclobutane

Fun Fact: I was on TV with Serena Williams

Nicholas Campbell

3rd Year Graduate Student

Organic Division

Project: iClick

Fun Fact: I have performed classical music at Carnegie Hall

Gina Pedro

3rd Year Graduate Student

Inorganic Division

Project: Cyclic Polymers

Fun Fact: I was once randomly selected to be an extra in a Jax music video

Vishal Chakravorty

2nd Year Graduate Student

Organic Division

Project: Tethered Alkylidyne

Fun Fact: I like to cook!

Jack Schlamkowitz

2nd Year Graduate Student

Inorganic Division

Project: Pincer Ligands

Fun Fact: I used to be a competitive skier and can do a very nice Borat impression!

Golam Rahman

2nd Year Graduate Student

Inorganic Division

Project: Helical Polymers

Fun Fact: I can moonwalk!

Current Post-Doctoral Researcher

Dr. Umesh Don

Defended 12/15/2023

Fun Fact: My favorite sport is cricket!

Current Undergraduate Students

Javier Hurst

4th Year Undergraduate Student

Mentor: Rinku

Fun Fact: I like to go scuba diving

Michelle Byrus

4th Year Undergraduate Student

Mentor: Courtney

Fun Fact: I’m from Brooklyn, NY

Guankang Yang

3rd Year Undergraduate Student

Mentor: Nick

Fun Fact: I can’t smell

Previous Group Members

Graduate Students

  1. Jürgen Koller (former member, 2006) currently: CEO of Sequestro, Inc.
  2. Adam R. Carlson (Masters, 2007) currently:
  3. Andrew J. Peloquin (Masters, 2008) currently: United States Air Force
  4. Roxy J. Swails (Ph.D. 2009) currently: Employed by Assent 
  5. Matthew S. Jeletic (Ph.D. 2010) currently: Employed by Dow
  6. Michelle Ciemnicki (Masters, 2011) – currently: Adjunct Professor at Schoolcraft College
  7. Muhammad J. Tariq (former member, 2011) – currently: Professor at University of Peshawar, Pakistan
  8. Soumya Sarkar (Ph.D. 2011) – currently: Employed by Evonik
  9. Amrita Mullick (former member, 2011) – currently:
  10. Kevin McGowan (Ph.D. 2013) – currently: Employed by Chemify Limited
  11. Matthew O’Reilly (Ph.D. 2013) – currently: Employed by Transform Materials
  12. Nicholas Huff (Masters, 2013) – currently: Employed by Sunstar Engineering Americas. Inc.
  13. Jakub Pedziwiatr (former member, 2014) – currently: Employed by Moelis & Company
  14. Andrew Powers (Ph.D. 2015) – currently: Employed by KPMG US
  15. Hong Li (former member, 2015)
  16. Matias Pascualini (Ph.D., 2015) – currently: Employed by Intel Corporation
  17. Sudarsan Venkatramani (Ph.D. 2016) – currently: Employed by Saint-Gobain Research India
  18. Xi Yang (Ph.D. 2016) – currently: Employed by Eli Lilly and Company
  19. Soufiane Nadif (Ph.D. 2017) – currently: Employed by Intel Corporation
  20. Stella Gonsales (Ph.D. 2017) – currently: Assistant Professor at University of Chemistry and Technology, Prague
  21. Chris Roland (Ph.D. 2017) – currently: Employed by Evonik
  22. Christopher Beto (Ph.D. 2018) – currently:
  23. Weija Niu (Ph.D. 2018) – currently:
  24. Zhaocheng Wang (Masters, 2018) – currently:
  25. Anson Cartwright (former member, 2018) – currently:
  26. Meng Jiang (Masters, 2019) – currently: Employed at Wuxi CF Pharmtech, Inc
  27. Tianyu Zhang (Masters, 2019) – currently: Graduate student at University of Pittsburgh
  28. Zhihui Miao (Ph.D. 2021) – currently: Employed by 3M
  29. Drew Beauchamp (Ph.D. 2021) – currently: United States Air Force
  30. Vineet K. Jakhar (Ph.D. 2022) currently: Employed by Ascensus Specialities
  31. Ushnish Mandal (Ph.D. 2022) – currently: Employed by Ascensus Specialties LLC
  32. Deene Wise (Masters 2023) currently: Employed by Los Alamos National Laboratory
  33. Jhonti Chakraborty (Ph.D. 2023) currently: Post-doctoral research under Dr. Richard Schrock
  34. Rinku Yadav (Ph.D. 2023) – currently: Employed by Oboro Labs
  35. Alec Esper (Ph. D. 2023)
  36. Yu-Hsuan Shen (Ph. D. 2024) – currently:
  37. Parker Boeck (Ph.D. 2024) – currently: Employed by Amaratek

Undergraduate Students

  1. Corey M. Thompson (2006)
  2. Melissa Clough Mastry (2007) – Ph.D. at Texas A&M University 2012 – Employed at BASF
  3. Joseph M. Falkowski (2009) – Ph.D. at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill 2013 – Employed at ExxonMobile
  4. Amy Selwach (2009)
  5. Jeffrey A. Culver (2010)
  6. Chelsea Huff (2010) – Ph.D. at University of Michigan 2014 – Employed at GSK
  7. Claire Heifler (2010)
  8. Jorma Shores (2012)
  9. Sean Meehan (2012) – Ph.D. Student at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine
  10. Trevor Del Castillo (2012) – Ph.D. at CalTech 2018 – Employed as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University
  11. Mary Garner (2014) – Ph.D. at U.C. Berkeley 2019 – Employed at Dow
  12. Jared Waters (2018) Ph.D. Student at University of South Florida
  13. Shaun Gallagher (2018) – Ph.D. student at University of Washington
  14. Jessica Heller (2020) – Ph.D. Student at University of Minnesota
  15. Emma Salanti (2023) – Ph.D. Student at Boston University
  16. Alec Adam (2024) – Ph.D. Student at Boston University

Post-Doctoral Scholars

  1. Dr. Junhua Luo (2005) – currently: Professor, State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  2. Dr. Subramaniam Kuppuswamy (2010) – currently: R&D Manager at IRIS Tech
  3. Dr. Saikat Dutta (2013) – currently: Professor of Chemistry, Electrochemical Energy & Sensor Research Laboratory, AICCRS, Amity University, Noida (Delhi NCR) India
  4. Dr. Cuijuan Wang (2015)
  5. Dr. Sung-Min Hyun (2023) – currently: Postdoc at Merck
  6. Dr. Rinku Yadav (2024) – currently: Employed by Oboro Labs
  7. Dr. Alec Esper (2024)
  8. Dr. Umesh Don (2025) –