Former Members

Former Graduate Students

Dr. Peter G. Gildner
B.A.: Lafayatte College
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2014
Current: Johnson Matthey Catalysis Group
GildnerSchwangerDr. Sara E. S. Martin
B.S.: Lebanon Valley College
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2014
Current: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, the College of Wooster
Dr. Amber A. S. Gietter-Burch
B.S.: the College of New Jersey
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2015
Current: Technical Services Specialist, Noramco
Gietter-BurchMcAtee2Dr. Jesse R. McAtee
M.S.: University of Hawaii, Manoa
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2015
Current: Business Development Manager, Dottikon Exclusive Synthesis AG
Steve A. Rossi
B.S.: University of the Sciences
M.S.: University of Delaware, 2013
Current: Science Teacher, Gill St. Bernard’s School
Rossi_SteveDr. Kirk W. Shimkin
B.S.: St. Lawrence University
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2016
Current: Post-doc with Dr. John Montgomery, University of Michigan
Dr. Scott A. Shuler
B.S.: Stevenson University
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2017
Current: Product Development Chemist, Novoset LLC
Dr. Andrew P. Cinderella
B.S.: Gettysburg College
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2017
Current: Process Chemist, Wilmington PharmaTech Co.
Dr. Vijayarajan Devannah
M.S.: University of Madras
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2018
Current: Research Development Chemist, Adesis, Inc.
Dr. William Reid
B.S.: Salisbury University
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2018
Current: Post-doc with Dr. Franziska Schoenebeck, RWTH Aachen University
Dr. Sina Rezazadeh
Pharm. D.: Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2020
Current: Research Development Chemist, Adesis, Inc.
Linh Dinh-Nguyen
B.S.: University of Texas, Austin
M.S.: University of Delaware, 2019
Current: Scientist at Agilent Tech.
Dr. Sarah Pawley
B.S.: Towson University
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2020
Current: Research Scientist at Prelude Therapeutics
Dr. Feiyang Xu
B.S.: Juniata College
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2020Current : Senior Scientist II at Wuxi AppTec
Nam Nguyen
B.S.: Bryn Mawr College
M.S.: University of Delaware, 2020
Dr. Katerina Korch
M.S.: California Institute of Technology
Ph.D.: University of Delaware, 2021
Current: Scientist at AbbVie

Former Post Doctoral Researchers

Dr. Qun Xu
Ph.D.: Northeastern University
Post-doc: 2010-2012
Current: Scientist, US Pharmacopeia
Xu_QunDr. Luis M. Mori-Quiroz
Ph.D.: Michigan State University
Post-doc: 2013-2015
Current: Post-doc with Dr. Michael Clift, University of Kansas
Dr. Guoyin Yin
Ph.D.: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Post-doc: 2014-2016
Current: Professor of Chemistry, Wuhan University
Dr. Rajgopal Sharma
Ph.D.: Wayne State University
Post-doc: 2015-2016
Current: Senior Research Investigator, Biocon Bristol-Myers Squibb
Dr. Bojan Vulovic
Ph.D.: University of Belgrade
Post-doc: 2016-2017
Current: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Belgrade
Dr. Michael Wisthoff
Ph.D.: University of Delaware
Post-doc: 2017-2019
Current: Process Chemist, Wilmington PharmaTech Co.
Dr. Runduo Gao
B.S: Anhui Normal University
Ph.D.: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Post-doc: 2017-2019
Current: Post-doc at John-Hopkins
Dr. Ziqing Zuo
zqzuo@udel.edu
B.S: Wuhan University
Ph.D.: Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
Post-doc: 2017-2020
Current: J-STAR Research
Dr. Subhrajit Rout

srout@udel.edu

Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India
Postdoc: Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
Year Joined: 2020
Current: Post-doc at Harvard
Dr. Humair Omer
hbo@udel.edu
Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Year Joined: 2020
Current: Assistant Professor

Former Undergraduate Students

Derek T. Ahneman
B.S.: University of Delaware, 2012
Ph.D.: Princeton University
Current: Advanced Analytics Data Scientist, IBM
Naijing Su
B.S.: University of Delaware, 2013
Current: graduate student, University of Illinois, Chicago
Keywan Johnson
B.S.: University of Delaware, 2013
Current: graduate student, University of Wisconsin
Jesse J. Spillane
B.S.: University of Delaware, 2015
Current: Associate Investigator, the Chemours Co.
Ryan A. Kozlowski
B.S.: University of Delaware, 2015
Current: graduate student, University of California, Irvine.
Roxana E. Mitrut
B.S.: University of Delaware, 2015
Current: graduate student, John Hopkins University
Caroline M. Vesper
B.S.: University of Delaware, 2017
Current: Technical Applications Chemist, Jarchem Industrials, Inc.
Spencer Lawson
B.S.: University of Delaware, 2019
Current: Scientist, FMC Corporation
Olivia M. Duke
B.S.: University of Delaware, 2022
Current: graduate student, University of Wisconson-Madison
Jackson Burns
B.S.: University of Delaware, 2022
graduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology