The Group
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Igor Alabugin, Professor Ph.D.: Moscow State University, 1995, Postdoc: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996-2000, Faculty: Florida State University, 2000-current Recent Awards ACS A.C. Cope Scholar Award (2021) The 2019 Favorsky Lecturer (St. Petersburg University) (2019) Fullbright Scholar Award - Distinguished Chair (UK) (2018) Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017) FSU Cottrell Professorship (2015) FSU Inaugural Undergraduate Research Mentor Award (2013) Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award (2013) |
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Antony Sekar Antony Sekar received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) in Organic Chemistry from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. In 2022 he joined as a Research Scholar in Igor V. Alabugin's laboratory at Florida State University. His research focuses on the design, synthesis and study the properties of functionalized carbon-rich materials. |
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Adam Campbell Adam completed his B.Sc. in Chemistry at Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, Florida. He is synthesizing compounds for the photochemical release of ketones and aldehydes. |
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Chaowei Hu Chaowei received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He works on alkyne radical reactions for the synthesis of carbon-rich materials. |
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Nikolas R. Dos Santos Nikolas was born and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and moved to the United States in 2010, when he was 16 years old. He earned his B.Sc in chemistry from Wingate University in North Carolina in 2018. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in chemistry. His interests are in the use of strategy design to drive the discovery of new photochemical cyclizations and design of novel PAHs. |
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Leah Kuhn Leah earned her B.Sc in chemistry from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 2019. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in chemistry in the Alabugin group. Her research invovles the use of computational methods to explore organic reactions. |
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Beauty Chabuka Beauty received her combined bachelors/masters degree in Chemistry from Idaho State University. Her research involves the use of computational methods to explore organic reactions. |
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Favour Danladi Makurvet Favour graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Kaduna State University, Nigeria, in 2016. He completed a Master's program in Green and Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, England, in 2020. In 2021, he joined Professor Alabugin's laboratory at Florida State University, where he works on the design, development and application of synthetic strategies to access chemical precursors for the bottom-up synthesis of porous graphenes. |
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Michael Commodore Michael graduated with a bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. In 2021, he joined Professor Igor V. Alabugin's laboratory at Florida State University to pursue a Ph.D. His research focuses on the design, synthesis, and study of the properties of organic magnetic materials (functionalized carbon-rich materials). |
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Devon Nobrega My name is Devon Nobrega and I am pursuing a major in chemical engineering with the intention of graduate school. I work with Michael in the synthesis of diradicals. |
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Daria Tonkoglazova Daria Tonkoglazova received her specialist degree in Chemistry from the Southern Federal University, Russia, in 2019. After that, she began her graduate studies in organic chemistry, supervised by Prof. A. V. Gulevskaya. In 2022 Daria was awarded a Fulbright grant and joined A-group as a visiting graduate student researcher. |
Alumni
PostdocsRahul Kawade Nikolay Tsvetkov Kamalkishore Pati (Grace Pharma) Sayantan Mondal (Assistant Professor, Bankura Zilla Saradamani Mahila Mahavidyapith) Sergey Emets (Avekshan LLC) Runa Pal (TCG Lifesciences) Samuya Roy (Biocon, at Bristol Myers Squibb Research Centre) Nikolay Shevchenko (Sibur) Sergei Kovalenko (Halocarbon Products) Mariappan Manoharan (Bethune-Cookman University) Vitaliy Timokhin (UW-Madison)
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Graduate studentsQuintin Elliott (Ph.D., 22) Febin Kuriakose (Ph.D., 21) Edgar Gonzalez-Rodriguez (Ph.D., 20) Audrey Hughes (Ph.D., 18) Gabriel dos Passos Gomes (Ph.D., 18) Christopher Evoniuk (Ph.D., 18) Trevor Harris (Ph.D., 17) Rana K. Mohamed (Ph.D., 16) Stefan Bresch (Ph.D., 15)Kemal Kaya (Ph.D., 15) Brian Gold (Ph. D., 14) Philip Byers (Ph.D., 13) Paul Peterson (Ph.D., 13) Kerry Gilmore (Ph.D., 12) Wang-Yong Yang (Ph.D., 11) Abdulkader Baroudi (Ph.D., 10) Jason Abrams (Ph. D., 09) Boris Breiner (Ph.D., 06) Tarek Zeidan (Ph.D., 05) Satish Patil (M.S. 05) Scott Peabody (M.S. 04)
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UndergraduatesArian Rastgou Juan Nogues Cindy Martinez Inge Montoya Michelle Ly C.J. Kelsheimer Joseph Guerrera Andrew Castro Jacob Andring David Allenger Christopher Michas William Speranza Peter Coutros Qudsi Baker Obi Ugochukwu Ana Phelan Chase Goldsborough Thaís de Faria Nick Bigerton Ilya Piskun Diana Fritzner Sarah Crawford Maycee Mularkee Tristan Vaughan Allister Bent Iris Denmark Guillermo del Valle Anusha Kavuru Allison Pearce John Paul Kolcun Miriam Swartz Cristina Chiodi Alex Lopez Olivia Bass Daniel Farinas Lugo Tim Guest Corinne Brack Jeremiah Alicea Vekarious Barnes Natalie Bonus Camila Cairo Matthew Gatcombe Forat Lufti Nalisha Minors Dani Phrathep Zach Rengert Jason Kirincich | (Cont.)Anabel Rodriguez Kelly Hensley Kasey Schaettle Sarah Rappach Kathryn Kaleel Juan Rojas Michael Bruno Alexandra Morgan Lessie Skiba Michael Scheer Julian Rashid Danny Gesua Brian Lynch Trevor Harris Kadar Gelinas Madeleine Johnson Travis CreveCoeur Audrey Smith Jameka Dorsey Mary Wojcik Hannah Bartges Rebecca Allen James Thompson Wolfgang Wesson Angela Sayoc Zlatko Sokolikj Catherine St. Laurent Grant Vellanti Sheeva Yazdani Catalina Zapata Ayisha Buckley Blake Davis Catalina Galvis Chris Davis Morgan Malloy Phillip Flack Lindsey Rosen Maggie Kingsley Josyln Rubin Alexandra Elios Samantha Marrone Heidi Moreno Justin Mauldin Nigel Hill Rita Gordon |
(Cont.)Jess Delaune Andrew Rice Vivian Sterling Lacy Stark Karen Ritter Jon Yarbrough Andrew Klein Peter Kaus Casey Fulmer Matthew Buck Patrice Worthy Aaron Pearson Alexander Dorofeev Chris French Christina Storozuk Jennifer Markiewicz Jeff Whalen Olga Barykina Megan Stultz Amy Hinsley Alexander Schevtsov Anatoly Vereschagin Elissey Yagodkin Katrina Coumbos Deborah McGhee (now Deborah Breiner) Melissa Naiman Alexander Chirokov Nikolay Tsvetkov Juliya Sumskaya Brian Puckett Shannon Mills Nathan Roney Matthew Clark Adam Morris Benjamin Arline Rachel Abrams Catherine Callahan Jonathan Lopez Miguel Abdo Morgan Skala Angel Chu |
Contact us:
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4390
E-mail: alabugin at chem.fsu.edu
Office: (850)644-5795
Fax: (850)644-8281
Our work is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Designed and updated by Leah Kuhn.
Copyright 2015 Igor Alabugin / The Alabugin Group, FSU