The A group 2024

Left to right: Beauty K. Chabuka, Professor Alabugin, Kimberley Christopher, Dr. Lona Dutta (PhD - Post Doc), Favour Danladi Makurvet,

Nikolas R. Dos Santos, Michael Commodore

Principal Investigator

Igor Alabugin, Professor

Ph.D.:  Moscow State University, 1995,

Postdoc: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996-2000,

Faculty: Florida State University, 2000-current

Full CV

Recent Awards

Southern Chemist Award (2023)

George Gamow Award (2022)

Distinguished Research Professor, FSU (2022)

Florida Award, Florida Section of ACS (2022

Gilead Lectureship (University of Ottawa) (2022)

Markovnikov Medal (2021)

Honorary Professorship (St. Petersburg University)  (2021)

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)

Graduate Students

Nikolas R. Dos Santos

Research Focus: Photochemical cyclization

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 cyclization and design of novel PAHs

Beauty K. Chabuka

Research Focus: Computation - Electron and hole upconversion

Beauty received her combined B.Sc/M.Sc degree in chemistry from Idaho State University. Her research involves the use of computational methods to explore organic reactions.

Michael Commodore

Research Focus: Study of the properties of organic magnetic materials

Michael graduated with a B.Sc 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).

Favour Danladi Makurvet

Research Focus: Synthesis of porous graphene

Favour graduated with a B.Sc 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 graphene

Kimberley Christopher

Research Focus: Computation - applications

Kimberley completed her B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biology from Lakehead University in 2020. Her undergraduate research involved using bioinformatics to investigategenetic linkage and protein-protein interactions as well as synthesizing ligands fordiagnostic imaging. Currently, she uses computational methods to addressfundamental problems in physical organic chemistry with applications in medicinal, material, and energy sciences.

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Postdoctoral

Lona Dutta

Research Focus: Study ofthe properties of functionalized carbon-rich materials.

Lona Dutta received her Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) in Organic Chemistry from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali. In 2024, she joined as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Igor V. Alabugin's laboratory at Florida State University. Her research focuses on the design, synthesis, and study of the properties of functionalized carbon-rich materials.

Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate students from left to right: Back roll: Ian Vallari, Alejandro Orozco, Thomas Suarez, David Mathews, Gage Bayliss

Front roll: (name),Devon Nobrega, Justin Speciale, Christopher Rincon

David Mathews

Major: Biochemistry

Research Interest: Photochemical cyclization

Alejandro Orozco

Major: Biochemistry

Research Interest: Photochemical cyclization

Gage Bayliss

Major: Chemistry

Research Interesting: Computation/ synthesis of porous graphene

Thomas Suarez

Major: Chemistry

Research Interest: Computation

Justin Speciale

Major: Biochemistry

Research Interest: Properties of organic magnetic materials

Ian Vallari

Major: Environmental Chemistry

Research Interest: Photochemical cyclization

Jahbari Bowen

Major: Biochemistry

Research Interest: Synthesis of porous graphene

Christopher Rincon

Major: Biochemistry

Research Interest: Photochemical cyclization

Devon Nobrega

Major: Chemical Engineering

Research Interest: Properties of organic magnetic materials

Joshua Loewenstern

Major: Biochemistry

Research Interest: Synthesis of porous graphene

Alumni

Postdocs

Rahul 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)

Graduate students

Adam Campbell (M.S. 23)

Leah Kuhn (Ph.D., 23)

Chaowei Hu (Ph.D., 23)

Quintin 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

Undergraduate students

Vanessa Spinelli

Arian 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

Thaísde 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

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

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