Former Members

Former Graduate Students

Dr. Peter Gildner
BA: Lafayette College
PhD: University of Delaware, 2014
Current: Johnson Matthey Catalysis Group

Dr. Sara Martin
BS: Lebanon Valley College
PhD: University of Delaware, 2014
Current: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, College of Wooster

Dr. Amber Gietter-Burch
BS: The College of New Jersey
PhD: University of Delaware, 2015
Current: Technical Services Specialist, Noramco

Dr. Jesse McAtee
MS: University of Hawaii, Monoa
PhD: University of Delaware, 2015
Current: Business Development Manager, Dottikon Exclusive Synthesis AG

Steve Rossi
BS: University of the Scienes
MS: University of Delaware, 2013
Current: Science Teacher, Gill St. Bernard’s School

Dr. Kirk Shimkin
BS: St. Lawrence University
PhD: University of Delaware, 2016
John Montgomery Group, University of Michigan

Dr. Scott Shuler
BS: Stevenson University
PhD: University of Delaware, 2017
Current: Product Development Chemist, Novoset LLC

Dr. Andrew Cinderella
BS: Gettysburg College
PhD: University of Delaware, 2017
Current: Process Chemist, Wilmington PharmaTech Co.

Dr. Vijayarajan Devannah
MS: University of Madras
PhD: University of Delaware, 2018
Current: Research Development Chemist, Adesis, Inc.

Dr. William Reid
BS: Salisbury University
PhD: University of Delaware, 2018
Current: Franziska Schoenebeck Group, RWTH Aachen University

Dr. Sina Rezazadeh
Pharm. D: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
PhD: University of Delaware, 2020
Current: Research Development Chemist, Adesis, Inc.

Linh Dinh-Nguyen
BS: University of Texas, Austin
MS: University of Delaware, 2019
Current: Scientist, Agilent Tech.

Dr. Sarah Pawley
BS: Townson University
PhD: University of Delaware, 2020
Current: Research Scientist, Prelude Therapeutics

Dr. Feiyang Xu
BS: Juniata College
PhD: University of Delaware, 2020
Current: Senior Scientist at Wuxi AppTec

Nam Nguyen
BS: Bryn Mawr College
MS: University of Delaware, 2020

Dr. Katerina Korch
MS: California Institute of Technology
PhD: University of Delaware, 2021
Current: Scientist, AbbVie

Dr. Olamide Idowu
PhD: University of Delaware, 2023

Dr. Raphael Kim
PhD: University of Delaware, 2023

Zeming Li
MS: University of Delaware, 2024

Former Post-Doctoral Researchers

Dr. Qun Xu
PhD: Northeastern University
Post-doc: 2010-2012
Current: Scientist, US Pharmacopeia

Dr. Luis Mori-Quiroz
PhD: Northeastern University
Post-doc: 2013-2015
Current: Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of Kansas

Dr. Guoyin Yin
PhD: Northeastern University
Post-doc: 2014-2016
Current: Professor of Chemistry, Wuhan University

Dr. Rajgopal Sharma
PhD: Northeastern University
Post-doc: 2015-2016
Current: Senior Research Investigator, Biocon Bristol-Myers Squibb

Dr. Bojan Vulovic
PhD: University of Belgrade
Post-doc: 2016-2017
Current: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Belgrade

Dr. Michael Wistoff
PhD: University of Delaware
Post-doc: 2017-2019
Current: Process Chemist, Wilmington PharmaTech Co.

Dr. Runduo Gao
PhD: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Post-doc: 2017-2019
Current: Post-Doctoral Researcher at John Hopkins University

Dr. Ziqing Zuo
PhD: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Post-doc: 2017-2020
Current: J-STAR Research

Dr. Subhrajit Rout
PhD: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research
Post-doc: 2020-2022
Current: Post-Doctoral Researcher at Harvard University

Dr. Humair Omer
PhD: University of Pittsburgh
Post-doc: 2020-2022
Current: Assistant Professor

Dr. Chetan Joshi
PhD: SUNY Binghamton
Post-doc: 2024

Former Undergraduate Students

Derek Ahneman
BS: University of Delaware, 2012
PhD: Princeton University
Current: Advanced Analytics Data Scientist, IBM

Naijing Su
BS: University of Delaware, 2013
Current: Graduate Student, University of Illinois, Chicago

Keywan Johnson
BS: University of Delaware, 2013
Current: Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin

Jesse Spillane
BS: University of Delaware, 2015
Current: Associate Investigator, Chemours Co.

Ryan Kozlowski
BS: University of Delaware, 2015
Current: Graduate Student, University of California, Irvine

Roxana Mitrut
BS: University of Delaware, 2015
Current: Graduate Student, John Hopkins University

Caroline Vesper
BS: University of Delaware, 2017
Current: Technical Applications Chemist, Jarchem Industrials, Inc.

Spencer Lawson
BS: University of Delaware, 2019
Current: Scientist, FMC Co.

Olivia Duke
BS: University of Delaware, 2022
Current: Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin, Madion

Jackson Burns
BS: University of Delaware, 2022
Current: Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Derek Rainboth
BS: University of Delaware, 2023
Current: Graduate Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Montana Edwards
BS: University of Delaware, 2024
Current: Graduate Student, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill