Alumni

Postdocs

Chanyoung Maeng

Postdoctoral Scientist
Years in lab: 2023-2024
Research Scientist at the South Korean Agency for Defence Development, Yuseong, Daejeon, South Korea

Pengfei Zhou

Postdoctoral Scientist
Years in lab: 2019-2022
Professor at Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xinxin Shao

Postdoctoral Scientist
Years in lab: 2017-2019
Professor at Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

Sangjune Park

Postdoctoral Scientist
Years in lab: 2017-2019
Research Scientist at the South Korean Agency for Defence Development, Yuseong, Daejeon, South Korea

Angus Logan

Postdoctoral Scientist
Years in lab: 2014-2016
Systems Architecture Engineer at Arm Holdings, Ltd., Cambridge, United Kingdom

Graduate Students

Xiaoxiao Ma

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2025
Dissertation: “The Development of Palladium-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Difunctionalizations of Conjugated Dienes and Enynes”
Years in lab: 2019-2025

Chibueze Onyeagusi

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2022
Dissertation: “The Development of Palladium- and Cobalt-Catalyzed Methods for the Syntheses of α-Trifluoromethyl and Alkyl Amines”
Years in lab: 2017-2022
Senior Scientist, Process Chemistry Group, Merck and Co., Rahway, NJ

Nathan Adamson

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2020
Dissertation: “The Development of Palladium-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Hydrofunctionalizations of Conjugated Dienes and Enynes”
Years in lab: 2015-2020
Senior Scientist, Discovery Chemistry, Genentech, San Francisco, CA

Kangnan Li

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation: “New Strategies and Transformations for the alpha-Functionalization of Amines to Access Chiral Amines”
Years in lab: 2013-2018
Software Engineer at Pinterest, San Francisco, CA

Paige Daniel

Graduate Student, Ph.D. 2018
Dissertation: “Synthesis of Protected Amines from Azaallyl Anion and Azadiene Building Blocks”
Years in lab: 2013-2018
Clinical Pharmacologist at Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Waltham, MA

Myoungmi (Melanie) Lee

Graduate Student, M.S. 2022
Thesis: “Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alkylation of Heteroarene N-oxides with Azadienes”
Years in lab: 2017-2022

Alexandria Weber

Graduate Student, M.S. 2017
Thesis: “The Diastereoselective Synthesis of 1,3-Diamines and Amino Alcohols via 2-Azaallyl Anion Ring-Opening of Aziridines and Epoxides”
Years in lab: 2015-2017
Global Project Manager, Synthesis and Life Science Division at CEM Corporation, Charlotte, NC

Ethan Hull

Graduate Student, M.S. 2017
Thesis: “Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Intermolecular Hydroamination of 1,3-Dienes with Alkyl Amines”
Years in lab: 2015-2017
Senior Associate Scientist at KBI Biopharma, Durham, NC