Meet Our Laboratory Members 

Postdocs

Dr. Lichuan lIu

April 2024-Present

Mar 2023- Mar 2024, Post-Doctoral Associate, Boston College

2022,  Ph.D. Tsinghua University 

Dr. Jun Luo

July 2024-Present

2022,  Ph.D. Zhejiang University 

Dr. Daijun Feng

Aug 2022-Present

2005 Ph.D. Shanghai Institute of Organic chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Advisor: Zhanting Li 

Graduate Student

Ban Wang

2020-Present

2019 M.S. in Organic Chemistry, Western Kentucky University, Advisor: Yongming Deng 

2017 B.S. Western Kentucky University

Cristina Ascenzi Pettenuzzo

2022-Present

2019 B . Ch . E . B . Universidad Metropolitana – Caracas, Venezuela

Undergraduate Student

Jujhar Singh  

2021 Sep-Present


Lindsey Soruco

2024 March- Present

High School Student

 Interested in our research ? Contact yongdeng@iupui.edu for more information.

 Former Group Members

Postdocs

Dr. Satheesh Vanaparthi, Current: Postdoc at Texas A&M University 


Graduate Students

Jonathan Markham (WKU, 2017-2019)

Undergraduate Students

Gabe Cuffel (IUPUI, Jan 2023May 2024)  

Mark Kibirige (IUPUI, LSAMP Summer Research, May 2023-Aug. 2023)

Mohab Elawad (IUPUI, ACS SEED, May 2023-Aug. 2023 )

Gavin Mccabe (IUPUI, Jan 2021 – June 2022 )  

Logan Clark (IUPUI, Sep. 2021 – Oct. 2022 )

Mitchell Parrish (IUPUI, Jan 2021 – May 2022 current: IU Dental School) 

Jasmine Zhang (IUPUI, June 2021 – Aug 2021, June 2022 – Aug 2022, High School Scholar, current: Emory)

Alexandria Greer  (IUPUI, June 2021 – Aug 2021)                           

Trina Gill (IUPUI, Jan 2021 – April 2021)

Isaac Howard (WKU, Mar. 2018 – May 2020, current: United States Environmental Protection Agency)

Jason Zhang (WKU, Aug. 2019 – May 2020, High School Scholar, current: MIT)

Pope Jackson (WKU, Feb. 2018 – Dec. 2019, current: University of Kentucky College of Medicine )

Bradley Bankhead (WKU, Oct. 2018 – May 2020 ) Felizardo Hermenegildo (WKU, Oct. 2018 – Dec. 2019)

Steve Chen (WKU, Aug. 2019 – May 2020)