Group News

Ryan's paper

January 2026

Congratulations to Ryan, whose paper appeared in Accounts of Chemical Research. It is a great summary and analysis of our group work on compounds in which alkali metal cations have important impacts on structure and reactivity. Well done!!

Welcome to new members!

December 2025

We have many new members that we are excited to welcome! Graduate students Olga Zubarieva, Ryan Pinard, and Chandler Woo have chosen to join us for their doctoral research, and we’re looking forward to great accomplishments from all of them! We are also happy to welcome postdoc Aishanee Sur, who did amazing Ph.D. research with David Powers at Texas A&M and who has great ideas on many of our synthetic directions. These enthusiastic chemists will form the next generation of outstanding Holland Group exploits!

Congratulations to Juan

September 2025

Congratulations to Juan Serviano on defending his Ph.D. thesis. Juan did a great job advancing our MHAT chemistry with salen-cobalt catalysts, as well as involvement in numerous interesting collaborative efforts. Juan is going on to a position at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, where his excellent work will certainly continue to push forward the frontiers of science!

Linda's symposium

July 2025

Linda Zuckerman organized an excellent symposium on surface analysis, which was attended by dozens of members of the Yale chemistry department. Congratulations to Linda and well done!

Congrats to Dana on Science Fair presentation

July 2025

Congrats to undergraduate Dana Feldman, who was a finalist in the Models and Molecules Virtual Undergraduate Science Fair hosted by Schrödinger Education. Dana is a very innovative scientist, who has been working on PCET mediators in our group, did summer work on electrocatalytic CO2 reduction in the group of Ulf-Peter Apfel in Bochum, Germany in the summer of 2024, and electrocatalysis in the group of Cyrille Constentin in Grenoble, France in the summer of 2025. Wow!

Congraduations to Alec

July 2025

Congratulations to Alec Hegg on the successful completion of his Ph.D. dissertation. Alec has made major strides in our understanding of rhenium and molybdenum systems for N2 splitting, and on the influences of isocyanide supporting ligands for enhancing the properties of rhenium systems. He will be continuing his academic path with a postdoctoral appointment with Jon Kephart at Cornell. We look forward to more great achievements going into the future!

congrats to Linda on poster award

June 2025

Congratulations to Linda Zuckerman, who won a poster prize for “Synergy Between Experimental Techniques” at the Mechanisms of Reactions (MECAREACT) conference in Paris, France. This award came to recognize her use of a wide variety of techniques in her research, which encompasses synthesis, surface spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and methods development. Great job, Linda!

Lindsey wins Heyl Fellowship

May 2025

Congratulations to Lindsey Baker, who won a Heyl Fellowship to support her research at Yale. This fellowship was generously established by a Yale alumnus to support amazing budding researchers like Lindsey, and winning this is an important accomplishment. Great job!

Alec and IRM GRS

March 2025

Congratulations to Alec Hegg, who was elected co-chair of the next Gordon Research Seminar on Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms, which will be held in 2027. Excellent leadership, Alec!

Welcome to Lindsey and Kendal

December 2024

We’re very happy to welcome two new graduate students to the Holland Group! Kendal Southwell comes to us from Trinity College, where he did research with Jason Shearer. Lindsey Baker comes to us from Kalamazoo College, where she did research with Dwight Williams as well as Tim Brewster at the University of Memphis. We’re looking forward to fun times with both of them in the coming years!

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