Members

Graduate Students

Chiranjit Das

Hometown: Assam, India
BS Chemistry, North Lakhimpur College, 2021
MS Chemistry, IIT Palakkad, 2024
PhD student since Fall 2025

cd1170 [at] scarletmail [dot] rutgers [dot] edu

Nini demetrashvili

Hometown: Tbilisi, Georgia
BS Chemistry/Biochemistry, San Diego State University, 2023
PhD student since Fall 2023

nd922 [at] scarletmail [dot] rutgers [dot] edu

sanju luhach

Hometown: Haryana, India
BS (Honors) Chemistry, University of Delhi, 2019
MS Chemistry, IIT-Gandhinagar, 2021
PhD student since Spring 2022

sk2515 [at] scarletmail [dot] rutgers [dot] edu

Viani Maxwell

Hometown: Elizabeth, NJ
BS Chemistry, Kean University, 2022
PhD student since Fall 2022
NIH G-RISE Scholar

vm604 [at] scarletmail [dot] rutgers [dot] edu

deuris Pena

Hometown: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
BS Chemistry, Bloomfield College, 2024
MS student since Spring 2025

dp1347 [at] scarletmail [dot] rutgers [dot] edu

 

Zhenhong Zhang

Hometown: Zhangzhou, China
BS Applied Chemistry, China University of Petroleum, 2025
PhD student since Fall 2025

zz909 [at] scarletmail [dot] rutgers [dot] edu

 

Undergraduate Students

(this could be you!)

Are you an RU-N chemistry major interested in research? Email Demyan for details about potential research projects and summer research opportunities.

Alumni

 

PHd students

Bhumika Goel, 2024 (Chemistry Lecturer, Indira Gandhi Technical University for Women)
Ageliki Karagiannis, 2025
David Tresp, 2025
Lirong Lin, 2025 (Scientist, Tulex Pharmaceuticals)

MS students

Ageliki Karagiannis, 2020

Postdocs

Dr. Andrew VanderWeide, 2021-2023 (Senior Chemist, Chemfinity Technologies)
Dr. Praxedes Sanchez, 2019-2021 (Postdoc, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Khusnutdinova Group)

Undergraduate Students

Monika Chhetri, Caldwell University, SURI Intern, Summer 2025
Faith Kim, Chem 452 Project and Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF), 2025
Shenelle Baines, GS-LSAMP Scholar, Spring/Summer 2024
Allison Houn, Amherst College Meiklejohn Fellowship, Summer 2024
Amado Rosendo, Amherst College Meiklejohn Fellowship, Summer 2024
Christopher Elliott, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow (SURF), 2023
Deuris Pena, Bloomfield College, SURI Intern, Summer 2023
Asmaa Washington, GS-LSAMP Scholar, Summer 2022
Naser Abuali, Chem 452 Project, Spring 2022 (Currently student @ Rutgers Medical School)
Christeen Shenoda, Summer Student (Summer 2019), Chem 452 Project (Spring 2020)
Meroline Bazile, McNair/GS-LSAMP Scholar, 2019-2020 (Currently PhD student @ Boston University)