Last update: 2/15/26.

Undergraduate Students

Top row (L to R): Patrick Pridemore (anticancer- spectroscopy), Louis Bercaw (catalysis – synthesis), Sunny Shen (catalysis- synthesis), Pharris Livingston (anticancer – spectroscopy), Elena Kuehner (anticancer – synthesis).

Graduate Students

Md. Kausar Ahmed (BS, MS, Shahjalal Univ. of Science and Tech. and Bangladesh Univ. of Engineering and Tech.) is working on catalysis with a focus on Co(I) complex synthesis and mechanistic studies.

Brendan Pang (BS, Temple University) is working on ruthenium complex synthesis for catalysis.

David Muthama (BS, MS, Egerton University, Kenya) is working on ruthenium complex synthesis for anticancer applications and for cellular studies.

Students who joined recently: Adedayo Adebayo, Nehemiah Antoine, Daniel Perkins, Daniel Osaigbovo, Emmanuel Aimiuwu, Thomas Monier.

Post-doctoral Fellows

Dr. Babulal Maji received his PhD from IISER Bhopal (India) with Prof. Chowdhury and did postdoctoral research with Prof. Himeda at AIST in Japan.

Dr. Wenzhi Yao has a BS and PhD from the University of Alabama and he is working on catalyst synthesis and catalysis.