Alumni

Luca Nencini
Research intern (PhD student)
Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Torino, Italia
Period: April-July 2016
Project: CO2 hydrogenation to formate

Shubham Deolka
Research intern undergraduate student
IISER-Kolkata, India
Period: May-July 2016

Project: new pincer ligands for small molecule activation
 

Sandra Lucia Aristizábal Guerrero
Research intern undergraduate student
Universidad del Valle, Colombia
1st Period: July-October 2016
2nd Period: April-June 2017
Project: polynucleating ligands for Pt/Cu and multi-Cu complexes
Currently graduate student at KAUST

Hoan Minh Dinh
Research intern undergraduate student
Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam
Period: January-March 2017
Project: macrocyclic Mn complexes
Currently PhD student at OIST

Georgy Filonenko
Postdoctoral Researcher
Period: July 2015 - May 2017
Project: photoluminescent copper(I) complexes, mechanoresponsive polymers
Currently at Delft University of Technology

Tanner Jankins
Research intern undergraduate student
Northeastern University, USA
Period: January-June 2017
Project: new catalytic method for making cyclopropanes
Currently postdoc at ETH Zurich

Robert R. Fayzullin
Visiting Scientist
A. E. Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Kazan, Russia
1st Period: April-June 2017
2nd Period: March-June 2018
Project: molecular and crystal structure determination of metal complexes

Andrey Petrov
Research intern undergraduate student
Kazan Federal University; Arbuzov Institute of Organic and Physical Chemistry, Kazan, Russia
Period: January-March 2018
Project: Exploration of Ru based complexes with organic S-,N-donor ligands for small molecule activation reactivity
Currently postdoc at LIKAT (Rostock)

Abhishek Dubey
Postdoctoral scholar
Period: July 2015-February 2018
Project: Mn-catalyzed hydrogenation of CO2 and carbonyl group; bioinspired ligand design
Currently Assistant Professor at JP University, India

Manuel Angel Gallardo-Villagrán
Research intern
University of Seville, Spain
Period: January-June 2018
Project: To develop a family of Ruthenium complexes stabilized with naphthyridinone-phosphine ligands, to be used as pre-catalysts, or catalysts in dehydrogenation reactions and small molecule activation
Currently PhD student in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and Limoges (France)

Abir Sarbajna
Postdoctoral scholar
Period: August 2017-August 2018
Project: Organometallic chemistry of manganese
Currently Assistant Professor at Vellore Institute of Technology

Luke Kramer
Research intern undergraduate student
Harvard University
Period: June 2018-August 2018
Project: New model systems for mechanoresponsive polymers
Currently at University of Cambridge

Jiratheep Pruchyathamkorn
Research intern undergraduate student
Oxford University
Period: July 2018-September 2018
Project: Ru complexes with N,S-donor ligands for small molecule activation
Currently PhD student at University of Cambridge

Saiyyna Stepanova
Research intern undergraduate student
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Period: July 2018-September 2018
Project: Ru catalysis for new C-C bond formation reactions
Currently PhD student at ETH Zurich

Orestes Rivada Wheelaghan
Postdoctoral scholar/JSPS Research Fellow
Period: May 2015-December 2018
Project: Polymetallic linear chain complexes for small molecule activation and organometallic reactivity/catalysis studies; molecular wires
Currently Ramón y Cajal Fellow, University of Sevilla, Spain

Pradnya Patil
Postdoctoral scholar
Period: February 2016-December 2018
Project: Photoluminescent pyridinophane copper complexes
Currently postdoc (City of Hope, US)

Alèria Garcia Roca
Research intern
ICIQ, Spain
Period: December 2018-April 2019
Project: The synthesis and evaluation of Ru complexes with N,S-donor ligands for activation of small molecules
Currently PhD student at ICIQ

Tatiana Gridneva
Research intern
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Period: May 2019-August 2019
Project: New modes of small molecule activation and catalysis by Ru complexes with macrocyclic N,S-dono ligands. Currently OIST PhD student

James Gallagher
Research intern
University of Cambridge
Period: July 2019-September 2019
Project: Cobalt complexes wih redox innocent PNP pincer ligands: their potential in catalysis and in the activation of small molecules
Currently continues his study at University of Cambridge

Juan David Villada Morales
Research intern
Universidad del Valle, Colombia
Period: July 2019-December 2019
Project: New mechanophore design and enhancement of mechanoresponse
Currently returned to Universidad Del Valle, Colombia  

SM Wahidur Rahaman
Postdoctoral scholar
Period: September 2018-December 2019
Project: Transfer hydrogenation and hydrogenation by Mn complexes
Currently at University of Munster, Germany  

Aleksandr Sorvanov
Research intern
Tomsk State University, Russia
Period: October 2019-February 2020
Project: Mn complexes in C-heteroatom activation and C-C bond formation

Olga Gladkovskaya,
Lab manager
Period: May 2017-May 2020

Sebastien Lapointe
Ph.D. Student
Period: January 2016-August 2020

Currently postdoc at University of Warwick

Yutao He
Postdoctoral scholar
Period: April 2019-November 2020

Project: manganese organometallic chemistry

Currently Research Fellow at Institute for Advanced and Applied Chemical Synthesis, Jinan University

Ayako Hino
Visiting Research Student
Period: September 2021-December 2021

Currently returned to University of Tokyo

Janet Bahri
Postdoctoral scholar
Period: October 2021-June 2022

Project: Photoinduced C-N and C-O coupling catalyzed by Ni

Huy Nguyen Gia
Visiting Research Intern
Period: May 2022-August 2022

Project: zinc organometallic chemistry

Richa
Research Technician
Period: May 2022-February 2023

Project: synthesis of pyridinophane ligands

Shubham Deolka
Ph.D. Student
Period: September 2017-July 2023

Projects: multimetallic complexes; nickel photocatalysis, aerobic chemistry; pincer complexes

Currently postdoc at University of Utah

Hanieh Moradi
Research Intern
Period: August 2022-July 2023

Project: perfluoroalkyl complexes with 1st row transition metals

Valeriya Frolova
Research Intern
Period: November 2022-March 2023

Project: mechanochemistry; mechanoresponsive polymers