Postdoctoral Researchers
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 obtained his PhD in the summer of 2025. Young do is currently working on alkene difunctionalization method development.
Graduate Students
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.
Yiannakis Lysandrou
Yiannakis received his B.S. in Chemistry from Marshall University in 2021. He later joined David Sarlah’s lab at UIUC to work on natural product total synthesis and followed him to Rice University. Yiannakis has since joined the Kürti lab where he now works on heterocycle method development.