Former Research Group
Members
Graduate Students
|
Student |
Degree and Year |
Subsequent Positions |
|
Adrian Looney |
MA (1989); PhD (1993) ÒI: Zinc and Aluminum Alkyl Derivatives
Supported by Oxygen and Nitrogen Ligation. II: The Development of a Structural and Functional Model for
the Enzyme Carbonic Anhydrase. A
Protonated Tris(pyrazolyl)hydroborato Ligand as Anion Host.Ó |
Patent Counsel for
Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York [adrian.g.looney@pfizer.com]. |
|
Runyu Han |
MA (1989); PhD (1993) ÒI: Alkyl and Hydride Derivatives of
Beryllium, Magnesium and Zinc. II:
Structural and Functional Models for Carbonic Anhydrase.Ó |
Information Scientist,
Information Management Department, Pfizer Inc., Ann Arbor Laboratories, Ann
Arbor, Michigan [Runyuhan@cs.com]. |
|
Keum Yoon |
MA (1990); PhD (1994) ÒI: Investigation of Bond‑Stretch Isomerism. II: Syntheses, Structures, and Reactivity of
Tris(pyrazolyl)hydroborato Derivatives.Ó |
Attorney, Shearman &
Sterling, New York, New York [kyoon@shearman.com]. |
|
MA (1990); PhD (1994) ÒSynthetic and
Mechanistic Studies of Trimethylphosphine Complexes of Tungsten.Ó |
Postdoctoral Research
Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Professor, University of North
Carolina at Charlotte [DRabinov@uncc.edu].
|
|
|
William Howard |
MA (1994); PhD (1995) ÒSynthetic and Reactivity
Studies of Permethylzirconocene Complexes with Terminal Chalcogenido
Ligands.Ó |
Postdoctoral Research
Associate (with Bergman), University of California, Berkeley. Associate Professor, University of Alaska,
Fairbanks, Alaska [ffwah@uaf.edu].
|
|
Jun Ho Shin |
MA (1991); PhD (1996) ÒSyntheses, Structures
and Reactivity of Permethyltantalocene and tert‑Butyl Molybdenocene Derivatives.Ó |
Teaching Associate,
Columbia University. Associate
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Queensborough Community College, Bayside,
New York
[JShin@qcc.cuny.edu]. |
|
Matthew Kuchta |
MA (1996); PhD (1997) ÒMultiple Bonding to the
Heavy p–Block Elements:
Syntheses, Structures and Reactivity of Terminal Chalcogenido
Complexes of Gallium, Indium and Tin.Ó |
NATO Postdoctoral
Research Associate (with Geoff Cloke), Sussex University. Senior Research Chemist, Exxon-Mobil
Chemical Company, Houston, Texas.
Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (with Nils
Metzler-Nolte), Ruhr UniversitŠt-Bochum, Germany [lg1969@yahoo.com].
|
|
Jennifer Kisko |
MA (1997); PhD (1998) ÒMultiple Bonding of
Titanium and Vanadium to the Heavier Chalcogens and Synthesis of
Four-Coordinate Phenyltris(3-t-butylpyrazolyl)borato Iron Methyl and Carbonyl
Species.Ó |
Postdoctoral Research
Associate (with Jackie Barton), California Institute of Technology. Research
Scientist, deCode Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland. Patent Agent, Gilead Sciences, Foster City, California. |
|
MA (1997); PhD (1998) ÒStructural Analogs of
Zinc Enzymes and Related Studies of Poly(pyrazolyl)hydroborato
Complexes.Ó
|
Postdoctoral Research
Associate (with Morris Bullock), Brookhaven National Laboratory, New
York. Postdoctoral Research
Associate (with Gui Bazan), University of California, Santa Barbara. Associate Professor, Department of
Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay [pghosh@chem.iitb.ac.in]
|
|
|
MA (1995); PhD (1999) ÒSynthesis, Structure and
Reactivity of [Me2Si] Bridged Permethylzirconocene and Permethyltitanocene
Complexes.Ó |
Assistant Professor,
Kyungpook National University [hyosunlee@mail.knu.ac.kr]
|
|
|
Clare Kimblin |
MA (1995); PhD (1999) ÒBis and Tris-Imidazole
and Thioimidazole Complexes as Zinc Enzyme Models.Ó |
Postdoctoral Associate
(with Alison Butler), University of California, Santa Barbara,
California. Senior Scientist in
the USDOE Special Technologies Laboratory operated by National Security
Technologies, LLC (NSTec) [clarekimblin@yahoo.com].
|
|
Tony Hascall |
MA (1995); PhD (1999) ÒI: Oxidative Addition Reactions of
Trimethylphosphine Complexes of Molybdenum and Tungsten. II: Metal Complexes of Bulkyl Calixarene Ligands.Ó |
Postdoctoral Associate (with Dermot OÕHare), Oxford University. Instructor, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, California; Northern Arizona University [antony.hascall@nau.edu] |
|
Catherine Bergquist (nŽe
Jones) |
MA (1998); PhD (2001) ÒI: Zinc Aqua and Alkoxide
Complexes: Models of Zinc
Enzymes. II: Estimation of the
Br¿nsted Acidity of Aquatris(perfluorophenyl)borane.Ó |
Project Supervisor,
Synthetic Polymer Research, National Starch and Chemical Company,
Bridgewater, New Jersey. La Leche League, Volunteer. [catherine.bergquist@nstarch.com].
|
|
MA (1998); PhD (2002) ÒThe Ansa Effect in
permethylmolybdenocene and Permethyltungstenocene Chemistry.Ó |
Postdoctoral Research
Associate (with Ken Raymond), University of California, Berkeley,
California. Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Daejeon, Korea [dchurchill@kaist.ac.kr]. |
|
|
Cary Zachmanoglou |
MA (2000) |
|
|
Amanda Vaught |
MA (2001) |
Associate, Darby and
Darby, P.C., New York [avaught@darbylaw.com]. |
|
Melissa Morlok |
MA (2004) |
Science Teacher, Milkan
Community High School, Los Angeles, California. [MMorlok@milkenschool.org]. |
|
Guang Zhu |
MA (2004); PhD (2006) ÒTransformations Relevant
to Hydrodenitrogenation as Modeled by Reactions of Trimethylphosphine
Molybdenum CompoundsÓ |
Staff Scientist, Symyx Technologies, Inc., Sunnyvale, California [gZhu@symyx.com]. Senior Staff Scientist, Rennovia, Inc., Menlo Park, California [gzhu@rennovia.com]
|
|
Jonathan Melnick |
MA (2004); PhD (2007) ÒComplexes of Group 12
Metals in a Sulfur-Rich Coordination Environment Employing the
Tris(2-mercapto-t-butylimidazolyl)hydroborato Ligand.Ó |
Postdoctoral Research
Associate (with Dan Nocera), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
[jmelnick@mit.edu]. |
|
Bryte Kelly |
MA (2005); PhD (2007) ÒApplications of Bis and
Tris(aryloxy)amine Ligands to Main Group and Transition Metal Chemistry.Ó
|
Scientific Advisor,
Morgan and Finnegan, New York [bkelly@morganfinnegan.com, bryte.kelly@gmail.com]. |
MA (2005); PhD (2008)
ÒCalixarene and Trimethylphosphine Complexes of Mo, W and Ni: Towards Small-Molecule Models for Heterogeneous HDS Catalysts.Ó
|
Postdoctoral Research Associate (with Stephen J. Lippard), Massachusetts Institute of Technology [dbuccell@mit.edu]. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, New York University [dbuccella@nyu.edu] |
|
MA (2005); PhD (2008)
ÒPart I: Bonding Properties and Reactivity of the Metal-Boron Bond in Metal Borane Compounds. Part II: Homogeneous Hydrodesulfurization of Benzothiophene by Tantalum and Niobium Complexes.Ó
|
Postdoctoral Research
Associate (with Hong Soon Hyeok), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, [pkeliang@gmail.com]
|
|
Joseph C. Ulichny
|
MA (2008)
|
Associate in Discipline, Columbia University, [jcu2102@columbia.edu] |
MA (2006); PhD (2009)
Ò(I) Preparation and Coordination Chemistry of Selenium-Rich Bi- and Tripodal Boron-Centered Ligands and Precursors. (II) Preparation and Computational Analysis of s and p Lewis Acid Adducts of Transition Metals Supported by Nitrogen, Sulfur and Selenium-Rich Boron-Centered Ligands.Ó
|
Copywriter, Harrison & Star, [victoria.landry@gmail.com] Convent of the Sacred Heart, Greenwich, CT. [victoria.landry@gmail.com] |
|
MA (2007); PhD (2010) "The Chemistry of Gallium, Indium, and Mercury Supported by a Sulfur-Rich Coordination Environment."
|
Graduate Student, Stanford Law School |
|
Gregory G. Theophall
|
MA (2011)
|
|
MA (2009); PhD (2012) "Chemistry of highly reactive group 5 and 6 transition metal compounds: Modeling aspects of the industrial hydrotreating process and synthesis of the first transition metal complexes that feature a [CCC] X3-donor pincer ligand."
|
Postdoctoral Research Associate (with John E. Bercaw and Harry B. Gray), California Institute of Technology [asattler@caltech.edu]. |
|
MA (2009); PhD (2012) "(I) Zinc complexes as synthetic analogues for carbonic anhydrase and as catalysts for H2 production and CO2 functionalization. (II) Application of lithium silylamides in the synthesis of transition metal isocyanide compounds from their carbonyl derivatives. (III) Structural and spectroscopic studies of thimerosal and its derivatives."
|
Postdoctoral Research Associate (with Harry B. Gray), California Institute of Technology [wsattler@caltech.edu]. |
Postdoctoral Research Associates
|
Name |
Dates |
Subsequent Positions |
|
Ian B. Gorrell |
1989-90 |
Department of Chemistry,
Leeds University [iang@chemistry.leeds.ac.uk]. |
|
Akila Saleh |
1991-92 |
Professor, College of
Education, Chemistry Department, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
[abyad400@soficom.com.eg], [salehakila55@hotmail.com].
|
|
Emanuela Libertini |
1992-93 |
Professor, Department of
Chemistry, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
[libertini.emanuela@unimo.it]. |
|
Vincent Murphy |
1994-95 |
Exxon Chemical Company, Baytown, Texas. Technology Entrepreneur (formerly Director of Homogeneous Catalysis), Symyx Technologies, Inc. Santa Clara, California. Vice President of Research and Development, Rennovia, Inc., California [vmurphy@rennovia.com] |
|
Tauqir Fillebeen |
1994-1997 |
Instructor, Department of
Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado; retired
[tauqir.fillebeen@colostate.edu; tauqirfillebeen@hotmail.com].
|
|
Conor Dowling |
1994-95 |
Senior Research Chemist,
Elf Atochem, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Market Manager, Specialty Amines, Thiochemicals Division,
Arkema, Inc., Philadelphia.
Global Market Manager, Specialty Amines, Taminco, Allentown,
Pennsylvania [conor.dowling@taminco.com]. |
|
Jeff Bonanno |
1995-96 |
Assistant Professor,
Rockefeller University, New York, New York. Associate, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College
of Medicine, Bronx, New York [jbonanno@aecom.yu.edu]. |
|
1996 - 2002 |
Teaching Associate,
Columbia University. Associate
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Queensborough Community College, Bayside,
New York
[JShin@qcc.cuny.edu]. |
|
|
Brian M. Bridgewater |
1998-2001 |
Senior Research
Scientist, Rohm and Haas Company, Springhouse, Pennsylvania
[BBridgewater@RohmHaas.com]. |
|
Arefa Docrat |
2000-01 |
Writer, [arefa2@hotmail.com].
|
|
2000-03 |
Associate Professor,
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York [jotanski@vassar.edu]. |
|
|
Thomas G. Carrell |
2002 |
Technical Support
Specialist, Shimadzu, Piscataway, New Jersey [tgcarrell@shimadzu.com; carrell@alumni.princeton.edu]. |
|
Kevin Janak |
2001-04 |
Research Scientist,
Reheis Inc., Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. Research and Application Specialist, Lonza, New Jersey [ksjanak@optonline.net].
|
|
2005-2007 |
Assistant Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
[jsfig@ucsd.edu]. |
Undergraduate Students
|
Name |
Dates |
Subsequent Positions |
|
Nick Bavaro |
1988 |
New York Medical College,
Valhalla, New York; Rivertown Orthopaedics, Westchester Office, Ardsley, New
York. |
|
Max Bachrach |
1989 (REU) |
|
|
Quoc Dang |
1989 (REU) |
|
|
Mike Willis |
1989 (REU) |
|
|
Ethan Jackson |
1989 |
Anesthesiologist,
University of California, San Francisco. |
|
Ross Zelman |
1990 (REU) |
Graduate Student,
University of Pennsylvania. |
|
Mark Cornebise |
1990 (REU) |
Associate Scientist,
Biomedicinal Chemistry Department, Biogen, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
[Mark_Cornebise@biogen.com] |
|
Dena Miller |
1991 |
|
|
1991 (REU) |
Graduate Student (with
Wulff), University of Chicago.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina [mlwaters@email.unc.edu]. |
|
|
1991 (REU) |
Graduate Student (with
Bergman and Andersen), University of California, Berkeley. Associate Professor, Department of
Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
[mcneill@chem.umn.edu]. |
|
|
George Miller |
1992 |
|
|
Fred Mikulek |
1992 (REU) |
|
|
Beth Simon |
1992 |
|
|
Lewis Kaufman |
1992 |
|
|
Marc Pavese |
1992 |
Quantitative Risk Leader, Genworth Financial, Stamford, Connecticut [marc.pavese@genworth.com; marcpavese@yahoo.com]. |
|
1993–97 |
Graduate student (with
Grubbs), California Institute of Technology. Postdoctoral Research Associate (with Stucky), University
of California, Santa Barbara.
Sensors and Materials Laboratory at HRL Laboratories
[ttsalguero@hrl.com]. Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, GA [salguero@uga.edu]
|
|
|
Mike Sardo |
1993 |
|
|
Hayley Xuereb |
1993 (REU) |
Graduate Student (with
Kahne), Princeton University. |
|
Jennifer Kokolski |
1993 (REU) |
|
|
William Savage |
1994 |
|
|
Shannon Halkyard |
1994 |
Stuart Hall High School,
San Francisco, California [halkyard@sacredsf.org]. |
|
Johnny Chen |
1995 |
|
|
1995 (REU) |
Graduate student (with Chan), California Institute of Technology. Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, San Francisco. Assistant Professor, Proteomics Core, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado [kirk.hansen@uchsc.edu]. |
|
|
Dana Weinberger |
1995 (REU) |
Graduate Student (with
Mirkin), Northwestern University.
Postdoctoral Associate at Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla,
California. CBR International
Corporation. |
|
Cetywa Powell |
1996 |
Filmmaker
[crp7@hotmail.com]. |
|
Joe Cordaro |
1998 (REU) |
Graduate Student (with
Bergman), University of California, Berkeley. Senior Member of the Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories,
California [jgcorda@sandia.gov]. |
|
Hannah Storrie (Barnard) |
1998-99 |
Graduate Student (with
Stupp), Northwestern University.
Postdoctoral Fellow(with Mooney), Harvard School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences [hstorrie@deas.harvard.edu]. |
|
Brian Ackerman |
1999-2001 |
|
Mark Rubinshtein
|
1999-2001
|
Graduate Student,
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, Columbia
University. Graduate Student
(with Yang), Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
California, San Diego.
|
Lawrence Koutcher
|
2000-01
|
Cornell Medical School,
New York, New York [lak2008@med.cornell.edu]
|
Shannon Biros
|
2000 (REU)
|
Graduate Student (with
Reebek), Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California.
|
Adriel Villeges-Estrada (Vassar) |
2001 |
Graduate Student (with Mobashery), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana. |
Josh Wittenberg |
2001 (REU) |
Graduate Student (with Alvisatos), University of California, Berkeley [jsw44@uclink.berkeley.edu]. |
Jeffrey Carlson
|
2002 (REU)
|
|
Jennifer Guerard
|
2003 (REU)
|
Graduate Student (with Chin), School of Earth Science, Ohio State University |
Mary Beth Anzovino
|
2004 (REU)
|
Graduate Student (with
Yoon), Department of Chemistry, University of Madison, Wisconsin
[anzovino@wisc.edu].
|
Felicia Konopka (Barnard)
|
2004-07
|
Graduate Student, Syracuse University, New York. |
Ian Tonks
|
2005-06
|
Graduate Student (with
Bercaw), California Institute of Technology [iantonks@caltech.edu].
|
Edward Weintrob
|
2005-06
|
Graduate Student (with
Bercaw), California Institute of Technology [tw288@caltech.edu].
|
Abraham Shultz
|
2005-06
|
Graduate Student (with
Nguyen and Hupp), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois [a-shultz@northwestern.edu].
|
Joseph Ulichny
|
2005 (REU)
|
Graduate Student (with
Parkin), Columbia University. |
Fergal Coleman
|
2006 (REU)
|
Graduate Student, National University of Ireland, Galway. |
Stephanie M. Quan
|
2006-07
|
Science Teacher, Harvard-Westlake School, Los Angeles, CA |
Amanda Doody
|
2007 (REU)
|
Graduate Student (Fall 08), Vanderbilt University. |
Philip S. May |
2008 (REU)
|
Undergraduate Student, Emory University.
|
Diana Bryk |
2009 |
Columbia University.
|
Ariel Schaap |
2009 |
Columbia University.
|
Kristine Jang |
2009 (REU) |
Undergraduate Student, Texas A&M University.
|
Benjamin Kriegel |
2010 (REU) |
Undergraduate Student, New College of Florida, Sarasota, Florida. |
Kaylyn Shen |
2011 |
Columbia University.
|
Sabbatical and other Visitors
|
Name |
Dates |
Afilliation |
|
Ditta Korbeogo |
1996 & 1997 |
Summer Research Program
for Secondary School Science Teachers |
|
Peter Desrosiers |
1997 |
University of the Virgin
Islands, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands |
|
Juliet Hahn |
1998-99 |
St. JohnÕs University,
Jamica, New York |
|
Sheila Morehouse |
1998 |
Manhattanville College,
Purchase, New York |
|
1999 |
Venezuelan Institute for
Scientific Research (IVIC), Caracas, Venezuela |
|
|
Jennifer Girard |
2000 & 2001 |
Partners in Science
Program and Environmental Molecular Science Institute Research Experience for
Teachers (Edward R. Murrow High School, Brookyn)
|
|
Duncan Quarless |
2000-01 |
SUNY College of Old
Westbury, Old Westbury, New York |
|
Roald Hoffmann |
2001 |
Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York |
|
2002-03 |
Kitasato University,
Kitasato, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, Japan |
|
|
Luciano Marchi˜ |
2003 |
University of Parma,
Italy |
|
Chandrika Kulatilleke |
2006 |
Baruch College, CUNY, New
York, New York |
Reena Rahni |
2006-07 |
Hunter College |
Edward Lieb |
2008 |
Masters School (Dobbs Ferry) |
Shweta Verma |
2008-09 |
|
Illon Osei |
2008-09 |
Bronx High School for Medical Science (via Harlem Children Society) |
|
|||
