Postdoctoral Researchers


 

Anna Libman, Ph.D., Postdoc

Anna received her Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel under the supervision of Prof. Doron Pappo. She joined the Kürti group in the winter of 2023. During her Ph.D, Anna worked on copper-catalyzed oxidative macrocyclization of linear peptides and is currently working on a new methodology to prepare new azetidine derivatives.

Arghya Ghosh, Ph.D., Postdoc

Arghya received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore under the tutelage of Akkattu Biju in 2021. He joined the Kürti group after his graduation in the spring of 2022. Arghya worked on NHC catalysis during his Ph.D. studies and is currently working on new amination method development.

Daniel Joaquin, Ph.D., Postdoc

Daniel received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Brigham Young University under the supervision of Dr. Steven Castle. He joined the Kürti group after his graduation in the summer of 2022. Daniel is currently working on new alkene difunctionalization method development.

 

Graduate Students


 

Agustin Rodriguez

Agustin received his B.Sc. in Nanotechnology and Chemical Sciences Engineering from Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico in 2019. He joined the Kürti group in the Fall of 2020 and is currently working on a medicinal chemistry project and amino lactones synthesis method development.

Charlotte Randolph

Charlotte received her B.Sc. in Chemistry from University of Utah in 2022. She joined the Kürti group in the Fall of 2022 and is currently working on new pericyclic rearrangement reactions.

Danny Graeff

Danny received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Baylor University in 2022. He joined the Kürti group in the Fall of 2022 and is currently working on new dichloroketene reactions.

Young Do Kwon

Young Do received his B.Sc. in Applied Chemical Engineering from KOREATECH, Korea in 2014. Later received his M.Sc. in Medical Sciences from Jeonbuk National University, Korea in 2016 under the supervision of Dr. Hee-Kwon Kim. He joined the Kürti group in the Fall of 2020 and is currently working on alkene difunctionalization method development.

Zachary Grimm

Zachary received his B.Sc. in Chemistry from Southwestern University in 2020. He joined the Kürti group in the Fall of 2020 and is currently working on new pericyclic rearrangement reactions.

 

Undergraduate Students


 

Simon Yellen

Simon is a senior working on mechanism studies and N-N bond forming reactions.