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ALUMNI AND THEIR CURRENT POSITIONS:

Research Associates & Fellows (Postdocs)

Ryan Baxter, Ph.D. (2010 – 2014) – Assistant Professor, UC Merced; Lab website

Jorge Bures Amat, Ph.D. (08/2010 – 12/2012) – Professor, The University of Manchester, UK; Lab website

Yining Ji Chen, Ph.D. (09/2011 – 08/2014) – Principal Scientist at Merck

Ryan Daley, Ph.D. (06/2021 – 08/2022) – Synthetic Chemist at Corteva Agriscience

Andrea Daru, Ph.D. (10/2020 – 12/2022) – Post Doc., University of Chicago

Timo Gehring, Ph.D. (08/2010 – 12/2010) – Professor, University of Applied Sciences, Saarbrücken, Germany

Antoine de Gombert, Ph.D. (10/2021 – 02/2023) – Process Chemist at Sanofi

Wei Hao, Ph.D. (01/2018 – 07/2021)

Jason Hein, Ph.D. (2009 – 2011) – Associate Professor, University of British Columbia; Lab website

Alexander Jones, Ph.D. (01/2018 – 04/2020) – Scientist at Janssen Pharma, Belgium

Luca Legnani, Ph.D.

Oana Luca, Ph.D. (04/2015 – 12/2017) – Assistant Professor, University of Colorado; Lab website

Helena Lundberg, Ph.D. (03/2017 – 01/2019) – Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm County, Sweden

James Murray, Ph.D. (01/2017 – 01/2019) – Process Development at Amgen, Thousand Oaks

Alex O'Brien, Ph.D. (08/2012 – 10/2014) – Associate Director – Vaccines CMC at Merck

Doug Otte, Ph.D. (01/2017 – 11/2017) – Associate Principal Scientist at Merck

Markus Roggen, Ph.D. (01/2013 – 03/2014)

David Sale, Ph.D. (06/2010 – 06/2011) – Group Leader – Physical Organic Chemistry at Syngenta

Golam Sarwar, M.D. (2013 – 2015)

Olivia Schmidt, Ph.D. (09/2018 – 06/2020) – Project Chemist at Bachem

Eric Tse, Ph.D. (05/2010 – 12/2010) – Principal Product Owner - Search, Generative AI for Healthcare and Life Science at GSK

Alexander Wagner, Ph.D. (2016 – 2018) – Director of Global Product Stewardship at Edwards Lifesciences

Prerna Yadav, Ph.D. (01/2022 – 02/2023) – Project Associate at iRISE

Graduate Students

Neil Hawbaker, Ph.D. (08/2012 – 11/2018) – Principal Consultant at Scale-up Systems

David Hill, Ph.D. (08/2015 – 04/2020) – Senior Scientist at Eyconis

Rei (Matsuura) Li, Ph.D. (08/2016 – 06/2022) – Patent Technical Advisor at Cooley

Matthew Mower, Ph.D. (06/2012 – 05/2018) – Senior Scientist (Process Chemist) at Janssen

Jinhan Yu, Ph.D. (08/2021 - 05/2025)

Visiting Student (External)

Chirag Apte (University of Toronto) – Research Scientist at X-Chem

Job Struijs (University of Oxford)

Ryosuke Takise (Nagoya University)

Johannes Wiest (University of Basel)

Guillem Valero Gonzalez (University of Barcelona)

Summer & Research Interns

Bianca Christensen (06/2013 – 09/2013) – Contract & Development Manufacturing Manager at Amgen

Rizelle Capanzana

Lewis Fowler-Gerace

Kamakshi Ramanarayanan

Shanelle Shillingford – Consultant at Boston Consulting Group (BCG)

Kasandra Shipley

Lingshan Wen (10/2018 – 08/2022) – Process Engineer, W. L. Gore & Associates

Eric Wittgrove – Associate Patent Attorney at Knobbe Martens

If you are an alumna or alumnus of this lab and do not see your name listed above, please let us know.

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