Former Members

This is a partial list of former group members, listing those for whom current employment information is known. We are very proud of our group alumni who have gone in so many interesting directions to continue their passion for science!

Graduate Students

Name Current Employment
Nate Eckert Head of R&D, Shepherd Chemical Co., Cincinnati, OH
Javier Vela Professor, Iowa State U., Ames, IA
Keying Ding Associate Professor, Middle Tennessee State U., Murfreesboro, TN
Sally Rocks Associate Professor, Utah Valley U., Orem, UT
Matt McLaughlin Section Manager, GlobalFoundries
Ryan Cowley Research Chemist, ThermoFisher, Sunnyvale, CA
Karen Chiang Science Teacher, Uncommon Schools, Rochester, NY
Tom Dugan Sr. Research Chemist, Evonik Corp, Trexlertown, PA
Meghan Rodriguez Senior Research Scientist, Bausch + Lomb, Rochester, NY
Zhiji Han Professor, Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, China
Sarina Bellows Portfolio Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Rochester, NY
Chi Chen Director of Research, Air Company, New York, NY
Megan Reesbeck Teacher, Horace Mann School, New York, NY
Nick Arnet Associate Professor, Nevada State College, Henderson, NV
Sean McWilliams Ab Initio, Boston, MA
Dan DeRosha Business Development Manager, Agilis, New York, NY
Dongyoung Kim Postdoctoral, POSTECH (Hwang)
Daniel Kim Postdoctoral, University of Illinois Chicago (Mankad)
Gannon Connor Associate Director, Corporate Development, Atomwise, Boston, MA
Jeremy Weber Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin, Boston, MA
Sam Bhutto Postdoctoral, UC Davis (Berben)
Allie Nagelski Postdoctoral, Los Alamos National Lab
Conner Wilson Postdoctoral, Amgen
Reagan Hooper Postdoctoral, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA (Cordones-Hahn/Gaffney)
Savannah Mason Research Chemist, MASS Analytical

Postdoctoral

Name Current Employment
Jeremy Smith Professor of Chemistry, Indiana Univ.
Savariraj Kingsley Scientist, Glencore, Edmonton, Canada
Jerome Elhaik Journalist, Évreux, France
Azwana Sadique Assistant Professor, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY
Bryan Stubbert Senior Consultant, NexantECA, Houston, TX
Ben Dible Director, IP Search and Intelligence, Merck, Boston, MA
Guru Raj Assistant Professor, Rani Chennamma University, India
Bill McNamara Associate Professor, William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Katarzyna Grubel Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Simon Bonyhady Senior Scientist, Huber Corp, Atlanta, GA
Richard Lewis Regulatory Expert, Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, Washington, DC
Cory MacLeod Senior Scientist, Biovectra, Charlottetown, PEI
Ilija Čorić Assistant Professor, Univ. Zürich
Danny Broere Assistant Professor, Utrecht Univ.
Amy Speelman Chemist, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA
Kaz Skubi Assistant Professor, Carleton College
Erik Phipps Scientist, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
Dan Wilson Research Fellow, University College London
Chris Gendy Nova Chemical, Calgary, Alberta
Alex Genoux  Postdoctoral Fellow, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Majed Fataftah Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign