Current Group Members

Jhonti Chakraborty
6th Year Graduate Student
Inorganic Division
Project: Pincer/ iClick
Fun Fact: I like to write music in my free time
Rinku Yadav
6th Year Graduate Student
Inorganic Division
Project: cyclic polymers, activation of small molecules with tungsten alkylidyne
Fun Fact: I can play chess blindfolded


Alec Esper
5th Year Graduate Student
Organic Division
Project: Mechanism of Cyclic Polymer Catalysis
Fun Fact: I went to my first Gators game at four weeks old
Yu-Hsuan Shen
5th Year Graduate Student
Inorganic Division
Project: iClick/ Cyclic Polymers/ Pincer Ligand
Fun Fact: TBD


Deene Wise
4th Year Graduate Student
Inorganic Division
Project: Pincer Ligand
Fun Fact: TBD
Courtney Sever
3rd Year Graduate Student
Inorganic Division
Project: Tethered Metallacyclobutane
Fun Fact: I am the oldest of four girl


Parker Boeck
3rd Year Graduate Student
Organic Division
Project: Elucidating Catenation during REMP
Fun Fact: TBD
Nicholas Campbell
1st Year Graduate Student
Organic Division
Project: iClick
Fun Fact: I have spent approximately 2,000 hours combined playing both Destiny 1 and 2 since 2012


Thomas Odey Magu
1st Year Graduate Student
Inorganic Division
Project: TBD
Fun Fact: I have an interest in environmental preservation and developing new catalysts which will support the advancement of several UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG (#3, #4, #6, #7, #13 & #17)
Gina Diodati
1st Year Graduate Student
Inorganic Division
Project: TBD
Fun Fact: I was once randomly selected to be an extra in a Jax music video

Current Post-Doctoral Scholars

Sung-Min Hyun
Performed Doctoral Research at Texas A&M under David C. Powers
Current Undergraduate Students

Emma Salati
4th Year Undergraduate Student
Mentor: Jhonti

Javier Hurst
2nd Year Undergraduate Student
Mentor: Rinku
Previous Group Members
Graduate Students
- Jürgen Koller (former member, 2006) currently: Employed by Wacker Chemical Corporation
- Adam R. Carlson (Masters, 2007) currently: works at Zachry Constructions
- Andrew J. Peloquin (Masters, 2008) currently: Chemist, US Air force
- Roxy J. Lowry (PhD, 2009) currently: Assistant Professor, Shorter University, Georgia
- Matthew S. Jeletic (PhD, 2010) currently: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Michelle Jurcak (Masters, 2011) currently: QC chemist, Alabama
- Muhammad J. Tariq (former member, 2011) currently: Professor in University of Peshawar, Pakistan
- Soumya Sarkar (PhD, 2011) currently: Post-Doctoral Scholar at Cornell University under direction of Dr. Geoff Coates
- Amrita Mullick (former member, 2011) currently: Process Engineer at AMAT Inc
- Kevin McGowan (PhD, 2013) currently: Pursuing MBA at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
- Matthew O’Reilly (PhD, 2013) currently: Post-Doctoral Scholar at the University of Virginia under the direction of Dr. T. Brent Gunnoe
- Nicholas Huff (Masters, 2013)
- Jakub Pedziwiatr (former member, 2014)
- Andrew Powers (PhD, 2015) currently: Pursuing MBA at University of Florida, Hough Graduate School
- Hong Li (former member, 2015)
- Matias Pascualini (PhD, 2015) currently: Employed by Intel as Sr. Packaging Process R&D Engineer.
- Sudarsan Venkatramani (PhD,2016) currently: Postdoc at MIT.
- Xi Yang (Ph.D.,2016) currently: Master program at UF.
- Soufiane Nadif (Ph.D. 2017) currently: Employed by the Intel
- Stella Gonsales (Ph.D. 2017) currently: Postdoc at Boston College
- Chris Roland (Ph.D. 2017)
- Christopher Beto (Ph.D. 2018)
- Weija Niu (Ph.D. 2018) Employed by Jordilabs
- Zhaocheng Wang (former member, 2018)
- Anson Cartwright (former member, 2018)
- Meng Jiang (former member, 2019)
- Tianyu Zhang (former member, 2019)
- Zhihui Miao (Ph.D. 2021)
- Drew Beauchamp (Ph.D. 2021)
- Vineet K. Jakhar (Ph.D. 2022) currently: Employed by Ascensus Specialities
- Ushnish Mandal (Ph.D. 2022)
Undergraduate Students
- Corey M. Thompson (2006) currently a graduate student at Florida State University
- Melissa Clough (2007) currently a graduate student at University at Texas A&M.
- Joseph M. Falkowski (2009) currently a graduate student at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Amy Selwach (2009) currently a undergraduate at University of Florida
- Jeffrey a. Culver (2010) currently a graduate student at Georgia Institute of Technology
- Chelsea Huff (2010) currently a graduate student at University of Michigan
- Claire Heifler (2010) Job at Honeywell
- Jorma Shores (2012) Graduated University of Florida, applying to Medical School
- Sean Meehan (2012) Junior at the University of Florida
- Trevor Del Castillo (2012) Ph.D. student at CalTech in the lab of Prof. Jonas Peters
- Mary Garner (2014) Ph.D. student at U.C. Berkeley
- Jared Waters (2018) Ph.D. student at University of South Florida
- Shaun Gallagher (2018) Ph.D. student at University of Washington
- Jessica Heller (2020) Ph.D. student at University of Minnesota
Post-Doctoral Scholars
- 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
- Dr. Subramaniam Kuppuswamy (2010) currently: Postdoctoral scholar, University of Brandeis
- Dr. Saikat Dutta (2013)
- Dr. Cuijuan Wang (2015)