Dr. Eun Jin Cho -
Postdoctoral Associate

Started in Group: June 2009
Current Project: Nickel Catalyzed C-N Bond Formation

Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Prof. Daesung Lee - Pt, Au, and Ru-Catalyzed Reactions of Multi-ynes Synthetic Studies on Natural Products

M.Sc. - Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Prof. Eun Lee - Synthetic Studies on SCH351448

B.Sc. - Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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Dr. Jorge Garcia Fortanet -
Postdoctoral Associate

Started in Group: August 2007
Current Project: Metal-Catalyzed C-C Bond Formation

Ph.D. - Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
Prof. J.A. Marco and Dr. J. Murga - Asymmetric Synthesis of Pharmacological Active Natural Products

B.Sc. - Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain
Research Advisor: Prof. M. Carda

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Dr. Chong Han - Postdoctoral Associate

Started in Group: May 2008
Current Project: Continuous Manufacturing

Ph.D. - Boston University, Boston, MA
Prof. John A. Porco - Synthesis of N-Acyl Vinylogous Urea-Containing Natural Products and Development and Applications of Zirconium (IV)-Catalyzed Ester-Amide Exchange

B.Sc. - Nankai University, Tianjin, China
Research Advisor - Prof. Jin-Pei Cheng

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Dr. Jaclyn Henderson - Postdoctoral Fellow

Started in Group: January 2009
Current Project:

Ph.D. - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Prof. Mike Greaney - Benzyne in synthesis; a search for palladium catalysed three component couplings

B.Sc. - University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland

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Dr. Gavin Jones - Postdoctoral Associate

Started in Group: November 2007
Current Project:

Ph.D. - University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Prof. K. N. Houk - Substituent effects on the rates of pericyclic reactions

B.A. (Chemistry) - Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

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Dr. Tom Kinzel - AvH Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Started in Group: July 2008
Current Project: Transmetalation in Suzuki-Miyaura and other Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions

Industrial Research Experience:
Boston Consulting Group, Berlin, Germany (Apr 08 - Jun 08)

Ph.D. - Georg-August-Universitaet, Goettingen, Germany
Prof. L. F. Tietze - Asymmetric allylation of carbonyl compounds: Origin of selectivity and development of new auxiliaries

Diplom - Georg-August-Universitaet, Goettingen, Germany
Prof. L. F. Tietze - Auxiliary-mediated stereoselective allylation of butanone with g-substituted allyl silanes

Academic Research Experience:
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
Prof. W. Hennig (molecular biology) (Feb 02 - Sep 02)

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Dr. Tom Maimone - NIH Postdoctoral Fellow

Started in Group: October 2009
Current Project: Aryl Fluorination

Ph.D. - The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
Prof. Phil Baran - Total Synthesis of hapalindole U, ambiguine H, and vinigrol

B.Sc. (Chemistry) - UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Research Advisor: Prof. Dirk Trauner

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Dr. Debabrata Maiti - Postdoctoral Associate

Started in Group: June 2008
Current Project: Cross Coupling Reactions

Ph.D. - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Prof. Kenneth D. Karlin - Oxidative Reactivity of Reduced Copper Complexes

M.Sc. - IIT-Bombay, Mumbai, India
Prof. G. K. Lahiri

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Dr. Matthias Oberli - SNF Postdoctoral Fellow

Started in Group: January 2010
Current Project: Asymmetric C-C Bond Formation

Ph.D. - ETH Zurich, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Prof. Peter H. Seeberger - Synthesis of Cell Surface Carbohydrate Antigens

Industrial Research Experience:
Givaudan SA, Switzerland (2005)

Diplom - University of Zürich
Prof. Hans-Jürgen Hansen - Flash Vacuum Pyrolysis

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