Group 2021

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Yanrong Li
Yanrong Li
Ph.D. Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 2018 (Guigen Li)
Research Interests: Materials science, fundamental reactivty
Hometown: Tai'an, China yanrong.li@bc.edu
     

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Ricky Alvarado
Ricky Alvarado
B.S. 2016 Worcester Polytechnical Institute (Shawn Burdette)
Research Interests: Coordination chemistry, Catalysis
Hometown: La Quinta, CA mario.alvarado@bc.edu
Kevin Byrne
Kevin Byrne
B.S. 2016, UMass Amherst (S. Thai Thayumanavan)
Research Interests: Biomedical research
Hometown: Newbury, MA byrne.kevin@bc.edu
Jiangpeng Liu
Jiangpeng Liu
B.S. 2019, Xiamen University (Haiping Xia)
Research Interests: Synthetic methods
Hometown: Xiamen, China jiangpeng.liu@bc.edu
Maxwell Eaton
Max Eaton
B.S. 2020, University of British Columbia (Fryzuk and Gates)
Research Interests: Synthetic methods
Hometown: Wrentham, MA maxwell.eaton@bc.edu
Jennifer LaPoff
Jennifer LaPoff
B.S. 2021, Manhatten College (James McCullagh)
Research Interests: Synthetic methods
Hometown: Ridgewood, NJ jennifer.lapoff@bc.edu
Tomoya Ozaki
Tomoya Ozaki
B.S. 2021, Kyoto University (Hideki Yorimitsu)
Research Interests: Synthetic methods
Hometown: Hyogo, Japan tomoya.ozaki@bc.edu
Changhang Dai
Changhang Dai
B.S. 2019, Nankai University (You Huang)
M.S. 2021 University of Utah, UT (Jon Rainier)
Research Interests: Catalysis
Hometown: Changsha, China changhang.dai@bc.edu
Emma Huang
Kaiyun Huang
B.S. 2020, University of Manchester (Nathan Owston)
M.Res. 2021, Imperial College London (James Bull and Anna Barnard)
Research Interests: Catalysis
Hometown: Shaoxing, China kaiyun.huang@bc.edu
Hannah Robichaud
Hannah Robichaud
B.S. 2022, St. Anselm College (Matthew Hurley)
Research Interests: Synthetic methods
Hometown: Hermon, ME hannah.robichaud@bc.edu
Skylar Diamandis
Skylar Diamandis
B.S. 2023, Middlebury College (Jeffrey Byers)
Research Interests: Synthetic methods
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT peter.diamandis@bc.edu
Nicholas Pugliano
Nick Pugliano
B.S. 2020, Swarthmore College
Research Interests: Synthetic methods
Hometown: Bethpage, NY nicholas.pugliano@bc.edu
 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Devon Robinson
Devon Robinson (2024)
devon.robinson@bc.edu
Daniel Ahuatl
Daniel Ahuatl (2024)
daniel.ahuatl@bc.edu
Jackson Yates
Jackson Yates (2025)
jackson.yates@bc.edu
Kelly Conan
Kelly Conan (2025)
kelly.conan@bc.edu
Christian Kelley
Christian Kelley (2026)
christian.kelley@bc.edu
Nina Rybansky
Nina Rybansky (2026)
nina.rybansky@bc.edu
   

At THE UNIVERSITY OF PAU
Yuping Dai
Yuping Dai
yuping.dai@univ-pau.fr
Danylo Hatych
Danylo Hatych
Hometown: Lyuboml', Ukraine danylo.hatych@univ-pau.fr
Walid Lamine
Walid Lamine
walid.lamine@univ-pau.fr
Chen Zhang
Chen Zhang
chen.zhang@univ-pau.fr

ALUMNI
Adam Marwitz
Ph.D. 2010 University of Oregon
Scientist at W.R. Grace and Co., Albany, OR
Eric Abbey
Ph.D. 2011 University of Oregon
Associate Professor at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
Adam Glass
Ph.D. 2011 University of Oregon
Instructional Faculty at University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Ashley Lamm
Ph.D. 2012 University of Oregon
Associate Professor at Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
Patrick Campbell
Ph.D. 2012 University of Oregon
Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA
Alec Brown
Ph.D. 2015 Boston College
Assistant Professor at St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
Andrew Baggett
Ph.D. 2016 Boston College
Assistant Professor at Linfield College, McMinnville, OR
Hyelee Lee
Ph.D. 2017 Boston College
Principal Scientist at Accent Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Jacob Ishibashi
Ph.D. 2017 Boston College
Research Scientist at Fluent BioSciences Inc., Watertown, MA
Zachary Giustra
Ph.D. 2018 Boston College
Research Scientist at Kebotix Inc., Cambridge, MA
Cameron McConnell
Ph.D. 2019 Boston College
Application Scientist at Scilligence Inc., Cambridge, MA
Katherine Boknevitz
Ph.D. 2020 Boston College
Research Scientist at Sterling Pharma Solutions, Germantown, WI
Yuanzhe Zhang
Ph.D. 2021 Boston College
Research Scientist at Frontier Medicines, San Francisco, CA
Yao Liu
Ph.D. 2022 Boston College
Research Scientist at PTC Therapeutics, Bridgewater, NJ
Xinyu Yang
Ph.D. 2022 Boston College
Research Scientist at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA
Ziyong Wang
Ph.D. 2023 Boston College
Postdoc at MIT with Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald, Cambridge, MA
Nicole Nava
M.Sc. 2017 Boston College
Senior Research Associate at Gilead Sciences, Inc., Seattle, WA
Jonathan Deegan
M.Sc. 2019 Boston College
Teacher at Avenues: The World School, New York City, NY
Jeremy Armand
M.Sc. 2019 Boston College
Research Associate at Invaio Sciences, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Sierra Bentley
M.Sc. 2020 Boston College
Research Scientist II at Albany Molecular Research, Inc., Albany, NY
Kshitij Parab
UO Postdoc 2009-2010
Research Scientist at Omya Inc., Blue Ash, OH
Wei Luo
UO Postdoc 2010-2012
Full Professor at Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Gang Chen
UO Postdoc 2012-2013
BC Postdoc 2013-2015
Principal Scientist at WuXi AppTec, Shanghai, China
Xuguang Liu
UO Postdoc 2012-2013
BC Postdoc 2013-2015
Associate Professor of Chemistry at Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, China
Senmiao Xu
UO Postdoc 2010-2013
BC Postdoc 2013-2015
Full Professor of Chemistry at Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Suzhou, China
Richard Burford
BC Postdoc 2014-2015
Research Scientist at Miru Smart Technologies, Vancouver, Canada
Zhiqiang Liu
BC Postdoc 2014-2015
Associate Professor of Chemistry at Shandong University, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Jinan, China
Peng Zhao
BC Postdoc 2013-2016
Research Scientist at Eternity Bioscience Inc., Cranbury, NJ
Kiran Unikela
BC Postdoc 2016-2018
Senior Scientific Manager at Aragen Life SCiences, Hyderabad, India