Research Associate

Whitt

Blake Whitt joined the Department of Chemistry in August as a Research Associate in Dr. Marilyne Stains' lab. Blake earned his B.A. in Psychology at Arkansas Tech University, a Master's Degree in Behavioral Neuroscience at Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in Science Education at the University of Georgia. His doctoral work examined the efficacy of various professional development programs designed to support university STEM faculty's adoption of evidence-based instructional practices.

Akoolo

Lavoisier Akoolo joined the Pompano Lab as an immunity research scientist in October. He trained and worked as a veterinarian at the University of Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya before going on to Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, where he graduated with a PhD in Veterinary Pathology in 2015. Lavoisier went on to Rutgers New Jersey Medical School for post-doc training in microbial pathogenesis from 2015 to 2020.

Zhouyang

Yin Zhouyang obtained his Bachelor's degree in chemistry from Nanjing University in China. Then he came to U.S.  and received his Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry at Brown University under the guidance of Professor Shouheng Sun. He joined Professor Sen Zhang's group in 2020 as a postdoc associate with a focus on electro-catalysis and biomass conversion. 

Ozulumba

Tochukwu Ozulumba has joined the Department of Chemistry as a Research Associate in the Pompano Lab. Tochi obtained her BSc and MSc degrees in Biochemistry at the University of Nigeria and then completed a PhD in Biomaterials Science at the University of Brighton, United Kingdom. Her PhD project investigated the potential of two-dimensional graphene and titanium carbide MXene nanomaterials to target biological toxins and the incorporation of these materials into composite systems for use in medical devices.

Saleheen

Amirus Saleheen has joined the Department of Chemistry as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Pompano lab in August 2020. Amirus obtained his B.S. in Applied Chemistry & Chemical Engineering at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His Graduate work consisted of developing a novel microfluidic chip to mimic rotary tube culture of rodent brain slices to improve the temporal resolution of downstream perfusate analysis.

Mondol

I am from West Bengal, India. In 2012, I obtained my bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira (under Calcutta University), Belur Math, West Bengal, India. In 2014, I earned my master”s degree in chemistry at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, Uttarpradesh, India. Then, in 2015, I moved to Groningen, Netherlands and joined as a graduate researcher in the Prof. Dr.

Fang

Yuan received her Ph.D. in Applied Chemistry from Nanjing Tech University, China. Her Ph.D. work focused on synthesis and application of rhodamine-based small molecular chemosensors for sensing heavy toxic metal ions. She joined Professor Cliff Stains group as a research associate in 2017, currently, she is working on developing novel near-infrared fluorophore scaffolds as bioimaging reagents for proteins, small molecules, and post-translational modifications.

Coutard

Nathan Coutard graduated in 2015 from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris. His end of masters internship was in Pr. Kylie Vincent’s lab at University of Oxford where he studied the regulatory hydrogenase from R. eutropha using in operando spectro-electrochemistry. He then joined the Artero group at Université Grenoble Alpes for a PhD project that aimed to optimize and integrate bio-inspired catalysts in a functional proton exchange membrane fuel cell. In the Gunnoe group, he now works on light alkane oxidation.

Dumitrescu

Eduard graduated with a Ph.D. from Clarkson University in May 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Silvana Andreescu. His work there was focused on the use of zebrafish embryos as a biological model (1) for toxicological assessment of nanomaterials and chemical additives employed in industrial and consumer applications, and (2) for in vivo electrochemical monitoring of biomarkers related to oxidative stress and neurotransmission. Eduard joined Dr.

Shadmehr

Mehrdad Shadmehr received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. His Ph.D. project was mainly about the design and synthesis of fluorogenic triazabutadiene probes for the labeling of electron-rich aromatic systems. M.S from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he worked on the synthesis of bioactive fluorinated heterocyclic small molecules. B.S from Tehran University. He started his career as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in Professor Cliff Stains research group in 2018.

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