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Current Group Members :

Rajendra


Rajendra Prasad Nandi (postdoc)

Project: B-N Lewis Pairs in Supramolecular Materials

Abdullah

Abdullah Alahmadi (graduate student)

Project: Boron-Doped Conjugated Oligomers and Polymers

James

James McQuade (graduate student)

Project: Polymer-Supported Lewis Acids and Lewis Pairs

Jingyao

Jingyao Zuo (graduate student)

Project: Boron-Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Ashutosh

Ashutosh Sahoo (graduate student)

Project: Boron-Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Beijia


Beijia Chen (graduate student)

Project: Lewis Pair Polymer Networks

Xiao

Xiao Luo (graduate student)

Project: Polymer-Supported Luminescent Lewis Pairs

Lakshita

Lakshita Anand (graduate student)

Project: Polymer-Supported Lewis Pairs

Ashvini

Ashvini Patel (undergraduate researcher)

Project: Boron-Doped Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

Reinaldo

Reinaldo Rivera (undergraduate researcher)

Project: Polymer-Supported Luminescent Lewis Pairs

       

Recent Student Awards:

 
2022
James is selected to present at the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium at the 2023 ACS Indianapolis meeting
 
2022
James wins travel award to present his research at the 2022 ACS Chicago National Meeting
Salma and Ashvini win 2022-2023 Anna and Bernard Z. Senkowski undergraduate chemistry scholarship
Jingyao wins poster prize for her presentation at the 2022 Boron Americas conference
Ashvini and Musaf are awarded undergraduate summer research fellowships
Salma is awarded an LSAMP undergraduate research fellowship
 
2021 Keila receives LSAMP undergraduate research fellowship
Monika is selected to present at the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium at the 2020 ACS Philadelphia meeting
Mya wins Poster Prize in "Materials Chemistry" at the William Patterson University Undergraduate Research Symposium
 
2020 Fer is awarded a highly prestigious Newton International Fellowship by the RSC to join Oxford Univeristy as a postdoctoral scholar
Monika wins 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Grand Prize and People's Choice Award
Huina is selected to present at the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium at the 2020 ACS Philadelphia meeting
Mya and Meroline secure LSAMP summer undergraduate research fellowships
Mya and Meroline win Senkowski Award
Maria Gutierrez wins the Honorable Mention Award in the Chemistry Category at the North Jersey Regional Science Fair (NJRSF) competition
 
2019 Berothy wins a Best Poster Prize in "Materials Chemistry" at the William Patterson University Undergraduate Research Symposium
Berothy wins the 2019 Sabat Award for Excellence in Inorganic Chemistry and the 2019 ACS DIC Undergraduate Award in
Inorganic Chemistry
Ahmed and Nana receive LSAMP summer undergraduate research stipends
 
2018 Noor wins a Best Poster Prize at the William Patterson University Undergraduate Research Symposium
Kimberly wins a poster prize at the ACS SEED poster session
Fer wins best Poster Award at the 10th US-Japan Hybrid Materials workshop
Kanglei is selected for one of very few student oral presentations at the 2018 Boron Americas conference
Berothy and John receive LSAMP summer undergraduate research stipends, Tae and Berothy receive Chemistry Department undergraduate research fellowship
 
2017 Shivani wins the Dr. Irving Shulman Medical Award for her poster at the Hudson County Science Fair
Kanglei and Huina are awarded Dissertation Fellowships
 
2016 Nurcan wins a poster award at the Boron Americas conference
Mary-Jane wins a poster prize at the ACS SEED poster session
Cindy wins a SEED scholarship
 
2015 Cindy wins a poster prize at the ACS SEED poster session
 
2014 Mayyadah is honored with the 2014 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Student Award
Mayyadah wins the 2014 Sabat Award for Excellence in Inorganic Chemistry
Fang is awarded a Dissertation Fellowship
Fang is selected to present at the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium at the 2014 ACS Dallas meeting
Mayyadah wins a Best Poster Prize at the William Patterson University Undergraduate Research Symposium
Cecilia is the recipient of an LSAMP scholarship
 
2013 Patrycja receives an undergraduate summer research fellowship
Fei wins the Graduate Dean's Award for the best Ph.D. thesis of the year among students in Arts and Sciences
Clarisse wins the 2013 Sabat Award for Excellence in Inorganic Chemistry
Mayyadah is selected for a highly competitive Dean's Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship
Diana receives a Dana College grant for Undergraduate Research
 
2012 Fei wins an ACS POLY travel award to present his work at the World Polymer Congress in Virginia
Fei receives a Graduate Student Excellence Award
Pangkuan is selected to present at the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research Symposium at the 2012 ACS San Diego meeting
 
2011 Haiyan wins the Dean's Award for the best Ph.D. thesis of the year among students in Arts and Sciences
Frank secures an Alexander-von-Humboldt return fellowship to start his independent research at the University of Ulm
Didier receives a Garden State LSAMP scholarship and a Dana College grant for undergraduate research
Matthew receives a Dana College grant for undergraduate research
 
2010 Jiawei wins an ACS travel award to present his work at the ACS National Meeting in Boston
Frank receives an Alexander-von-Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship
 
2009 Didier wins an ACS Petroleum Research Fund summer fellowship
Ehab wins an award by the New Jersey Institute of Chemists for excellence in undergraduate studies
Haiyan receives a Graduate Student Excellence Award
 
2008 Ami receives a Graduate Student Excellence Award
Haiyan receives an ACS travel award to attend the main group chemistry Dalton Discussions meeting (DD11)
Ehab wins a Sanofi-Aventis fellowship for research in "synthetic organic chemistry"
Mageline wins a Bader ACS Project SEED College Scholarship
 
2007 Mageline wins 3rd prize at the ACS SEED poster session
Yang wins the Dean's Award for the best Ph.D. thesis of the year among students in Arts and Sciences
Yang receives a Graduate Student Excellence Award
 
2006 Ami receives an ACS Travel award to attend the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco
Yang receives the "Best Poster" Award at the Boron in the Americas Meeting (BORAM XI)
Kshitij wins a poster award at the Mid-Atlantic Regional ACS Meeting
 
2005 Irene wins an ACS-PRF Undergraduate Research Fellowship
 
2004 Anand receives a Graduate Student Excellence Award
Mario and Maria win poster awards at the ACS SEED poster session
 
 
Former Members:
 
Postdoctoral Scholars :   Dr. Guanglou Cheng (2000-2001) - Now an Industrial Scientist
  Dr. Krishnan Venkatasubbaiah (2003-2006) - Now an Associate Professor at NISER Bhubaneswar, India
  Dr. Thilagar Pakkarisamy (2007-2009) - Now an Associate Professor at ISC Bangalore, India
  Dr. Frank Pammer (2009-2010) - Now a Habilitand at the University of Ulm, Germany
  Dr. Patrick Shipman (2011-2012) - Now a Scientist at Novoset Inc., New Jersey
  Dr. Xiaodong Yin (2011-2014) - Now an Associate Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology
  Dr. Wenming Wan (2013-2014) - Now an Assistant Professor at China University of Petroleum in Qingdao
  Dr. Gajanan Pawar (2013-2015) - Now a Scientist at Solvay
  Dr. Alain C. Tagne Kuate (2014-2017) - Now a Scientist at Accustandard
  Dr. Yi Ren (2016-2017) - Now an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Tech University
  Dr. Joydeb Goura (2016-2017) - Now a postdoc at the University of Bremen
  Dr. Fer Vidal (2017-2020) - Now a postdoc at Oxford University
  Dr. Mukundam Vanga (2017-2020) - Now a postdoc at University of Texas, Arlington
  Dr. Daisuke Shimoyama (2020-2022) - Now an Assistant Professor at Tokyo Metropolitain University, Japan 
 
Graduate Students :   Juan A. Gamboa (M.Sc. 2003) - Now at Celgene
  Anand Sundararaman (Ph.D. 2006) - Now a Senior Research Scientist at Jindal Films
  Yang Qin (Ph.D. 2006) - Now an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut
  Ramez Boshra (Ph.D. 2008) - Now a Senior Chemist at Firmenich, New Jersey
  Kshitij Parab (Ph.D. 2009) - Now a Research Scientist at Sirrus, Cincinatti
  Ami Doshi (Ph.D. 2010) - Now a Research Scientist at Sirrus, Cincinatti
  Chengzhong Cui (Ph.D. 2010) - Now a Senior Scientist at Solvay, Houston
  Haiyan Li (Ph.D. 2010) - subsequently a postdoc at the University of Washington (with Prof. Sam Jenekhe)
  Pangkuan Chen (Ph.D. 2012) - Now a "Thousand Talent" Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology
  Fei Cheng (Ph.D. 2013) - Now a Scientist at Wilmington Pharmatech, Newark, DE
  Jiawei Chen (Ph.D. 2014) - Now a postdoc at Columbia University (with Prof. Jack Norton)
  So Yi Jeong (M.Sc. 2014) - Now a Lecturer at New Jersey City University 
  Fang Guo (Ph.D. 2015) - Now a Lecturer in the Philippines
  Kanglei Liu (Ph.D. 2019) - Now an Assistant Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology
  Nurcan Baser-Kirazli (Ph.D. 2020) - Now a scientist at Sun Chemical
  Huina Lin (Ph.D. 2020) - Now a postdoc at the University of South Carolina
  Monika Baraniak (Ph.D. 2021) - Now a scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb
   
Undergraduate Researchers:   Moses Chimezie (B.A. 2002), Obianuju Achara (B.A. 2003), Priya Singh (B.A. 2004), Resmi Varughese (B.A. 2004), Vishad Sukul (B.A. 2004), Shabnum Haleem (B.A. 2005), Yesha Patel (B.A. 2005), Shimul Shah (B.A. 2005), Irene Kiburu (B.A. 2006), Onyi Uchime (B.A. 2007), Jay Banipal (B.A. 2007), Andrej Yusupov (B.A. 2007), Ehab Elmalak (B.A. 2009), Jose Medina (B.A. 2010), Didier Murillo (B.A. 2011), Shadwa Salem (B.A. 2011), Matthew Fata (B.A. 2013), Martyna Pawluk (B.A. 2013), Clarisse Jose (B.A. 2013), Diana Fernandez (B.A. 2013), Andres Tabares (B.A. 2014), Ahmad Aburas (B.A. 2014), Cecilia Morales (B.A. 2014), Patrycja Lupinska (B.A. 2014), Mayyadah Yusuf (B.A. 2014), Jakyung Yoon (B.A. 2015), Ali Asany (B.A. 2015), Dhanraj Rathod (2015), Maykel Khilla (B.A. 2016), Rossmary Nakamura (B.A. 2016), Jonathan Yamuca (B.A. 2016), Abanoob Tadrosse (B.A. 2017), Enas Alfaouri (B.A. 2016), John Gomezcoello (2018), Berothy Jilus (2019), Nana Mensah (2019), Ahmed Elmonier (2019), Shivani Patel (2019), Kaylee Maya (2020), Mya Serrano (2020), Meroline Bazile (2020), Keila Villanueva (2021), Ashvini Patel (2022).
   
Exchange Students and Visiting Scientists:   Dimitrios Pagakos (2004, Diplom student at TU Munich, Germany, Diplom 2004) - Now in Industry in Germany
  Julia Heilmann (2006, former Ph.D. student at Universität Frankfurt; Wagner group) - Now in Industry in Germany
  Andreas Lorbach (2009, former Ph.D. student at Universität Frankfurt; Wagner group) - Now a Junior Professor in Konstanz, Germany
  Hiroki Nishiyama (2010, former Ph.D. student at Tokyo Institute of Technology; Tomita group) - Now an Assistant Professor in Japan
  Henry Kuhtz (2011, former Ph.D. student at Universität Bielefeld; Weber group) - Now in Industry in Germany
  Omer Yunus Gumus (2013, Ph.D. student at Gazi University, Turkye; Ibrahim Unal group)
  Puhup Puneet (2014, Ph.D. student at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; Matsumi group)
  Alexandra John (2015, Ph.D. student at the University of Frankfurt; Wagner group)
  Yohhei Adachi (2016, Ph.D. student at Hiroshima University; Ohshita group) - Now an Assistant Professor in Japan
  Michela di Giannantonio (2017, Ph.D. student at the University of Fribourgh in Switzerland, Fromm group)
  Jonas Doerr (2021, Masters student at the University of Frankfurt; Wagner group)
   
High School Interns Through ACS Project SEED and other Programs:   Maria Victor (2003 and 2004), Mario Cruz (2004), Stephanie Garrison (2005 and 2006), Reynaldo Rodriguez (2007), Mageline Noelvil (2007), Glendalee Arvelo (2008), Slangdy Ramilus (2010), Chris Reimann (2011), Sandra Rigby (2011), Alex Rybchuk (2012), Afia Boateng (2012, 2013), Dalvin Josias (2013), Abhijnana Das (2014), Stephen Arhewoh (2014), Cindy Gnawa (2015), Uchechukwu Ookoh (2016), Shivani Patel (2016,2017), May-Jane Ogwagu (2016), Jamila Osborne (2016), Joanna Kim (2017), Lubna Begum (2017), Kimberly Glenn (2018), Sophia Shapiro (2018), Ahmad Kalil (2019), Maria Elena Gutierrez (2019), Steven Arana (2022).
   
 

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