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
Dr. Allyssa Conner
PhD: University of Delaware, 2025
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