Farha Group Alumni

The Farha Group is proud to have grad student, postdoc, visiting researcher, undergraduate, and high school alumni around the world. Many of our alumni serve as leaders in their respective fields including academia, private industry, national and international research and development centers, and more.

Grad Students   |   Postdocs   |   Visiting Scholars   |   Undergrads   |   High School Students

Grad Students

Olga Karagiaridi – 2015 – Lecturer in Chemistry, Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)

Huong Giang Nguyen – 2015 – Postdoc, NIST – National Institute of Standards and Technology, (Gaithersburg, MD)

Monica So – 2015 – Assistant Professor, California State University Chico (Chico, CA)

Marianne Lalonde – 2014 – Consultant, ZS Associates (Evanston, IL)

Vennesa Williams Jansma – 2013 – Associate Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company (Midland, MI)

Brad Hauser – 2012 – Scientist, Donaldson Company Inc. (Bloomington, MN)

Postdocs

Tianfu Liu – 2015-2016 – Research Assistant Professor, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Fuzhou, China)

Su-Young Moon – 2014-2016 – Senior Researcher, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (Daejeon, South Korea)

Yangyang Liu – 2014-2016 – Assistant Professor, California State University Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)

M. Hassan Beyzavi – 2013-2015 – Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR)

Ben Klahr – 2013-2015 – Research Analyst, CNA Corporation (Washington D. C.)

Rachel Klet – 2013-2015 – Postdoctoral Appointee, Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL)

Hae Jung Park – 2013-2015 – Research Professor, Pusan National University (Busan, South Korea)

Dong Wook Kim – 2012-2015 – Assistant Professor, Myongji University (Seoul, South Korea)

Pravas Deria – 2012-2015 – Assistant Professor, Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Carbondale, IL)

Kainan Zhang – 2012-2014 – Senior Chemist, Dow Chemical Shanghai (Shanghai, China)

Wojciech Bury – 2012-2014 – Lecturer, University of Wroclaw (Wroclaw, Poland)

Michael J. Katz – 2009-2014 – Assistant Professor, Memorial University of Newfoundland (St. John’s, NL, Canada)

Ho-Jin Son – 2009-2014 – Associate Professor, Korea University (Sejong, South Korea)

Mitch Weston – 2010-2013 – Lead Synthetic Chemist, NuMat Technologies (Skokie, IL)

Gokhan Barin – 2012-2013 – Miller Research Fellow, University of California Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)

Oleksii Gutov – 2012-2013 – Project Researcher, Enamine Ltd. (Ukraine)

Nak Cheon Jeong – 2009-2012 – Associate Professor, DGIST: Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (Daegu, South Korea)

Tulay Atesin – 2009-2011 – Assistant Professor, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (Edinburg, TX)

Debashis Adhikari – 2011 – Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali (Mohali, Punjab, India)

Visitors

Yongwei Chen – Professor, Qingdao University of Science and Technology (China)

Chenghui Zhang – Professor, University of Jinan (China)

Hui Cui – 2023 – Postdoctoral Researcher, Argonne National Lab

Luana Andrade – 2023 – Postdoctoral Researcher, UFABC (Brazil)

Isil Akpinar – 2023 – Postdoctoral Researcher (Stoddart)

Bhajan Lal – 2022 – Associate Professor, Shah Abdul Latif University (Pakistan)

Patrizio Campitelli – 2022 – Graduate Student, University of Camerino (Italy)

Herich HLB Lima – 2022 – Graduate Student, Federal University of ABC (Brazil)

Yufang Wu – 2021 – Graduate Student, South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, China)

Xinyao Liu – 2021 – Graduate Student, Jilin University (Changchun, China)

Lifeng Yang – 2020 – Graduate Student, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China)

Ran Cao – 2020 – Graduate Student, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing, China)

Yongwei Chen – 2020 – Graduate Student, South China University of Technology (SCUT, Guangzhou, China)

Jing Xiao – 2020 – Professor, South China University of Technology (SCUT, Guangzhou, China)

Nak Cheon (NC) Jeong – 2020 – Associate Professor, Daegu Gyeongbok Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST, Daegu, Korea)

Shinya Moribe – 2020 – Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc (Japan)

Xingjie Wang – 2019 – graduate student, South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, China)

Kaikai Ma – 2019 – graduate student, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong)

Satoshi Kato – 2019 – Asahi Kasei (Tokyo, Japan)

Fenfen Wang – 2019

Jiafei Lyu – 2019 – graduate student, Tianjin University (Tianjin, China)

Rodrigo Gil San Millán – 2018 – graduate student, University of Granada (Granada, Spain)

Yuanyuan Zhang – 2018 – graduate student, Beijing Institute of Technology (Beijing, China)

Ivana Carev – 2018 – Postdoc and Senior Assistant, Faculty of Chemistry and Technology, University of Split (Split, Croatia)

Jie Wu – 2018 – Professor, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Zhengzhou University (Zhengzhou, China)

Ah-Reum Kim – 2018 – graduate student, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)

Tae-Ung Yoon – 2018 – graduate student, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)

Dahee Jung – 2018 – graduate student, University of California, Los Angeles

Ghada Ayoub – 2018 – graduate student, McGill University (Montreal, Canada)

Johannes Osterrieth – 2018 – graduate student, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Isil Akpinar – 2018 – graduate student, University College London (London, United Kingdom)

Azadeh Azadbakht – 2015 – Assistant Professor, Islamic Azad University (Khorramabad, Iran)

Amirreza Abassi – 2015 – Assistant Professor, Razi University (Kermanshah, Iran)

Kazuhide Hara – 2015 – Patent Examiner, Japan Patent Office (Tokyo, Japan)

Mina Guli – 2015 – Associate Professor, Renewable Energy School, North China Electric Power University (Jilin, China)

Alireza Oveisi – 2014 – Assistant Professor, University of Zabol (Zabol, Iran)

Shinya Takaishi – 2012 – Associate Professor, Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan)

Undergrads

R.J. Cassem – 2023 – 2024

Oriname Adurodija – 2024

Yetti Li – 2024

Alex Dapis – 2024

Pantira Ketkaew – 2023

Hugo Compton – 2022

Joshua Duncan – 2022

Kevin Kim – 2022 – 2023

Yifan Liao – 2022

Audrianna Wu – 2022 – 2023

Tristan Bohling – 2021

Ian Dillingham – 2020

Alyssa Olszewski – 2020

Jamila G. Eatman – 2019 – Spelman College

Annabella Strathman – 2019 – Carleton College

Kevin Stoffel – 2019

Sean Rangwani – 2015, 2018

Emmanuel Proussaloglou – 2015

High School Students

Mira Needlman – 2023 – 2024

Zachary Witzel – Summer 2018

Evan Kanatzidis – Summer 2017