Blum Group Team Members

Graduate Students and postdocs

Joe A. Kaplan

Dissertation Fellowship

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
B.S. — Chemistry

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Hannah Peacock

Allergan Fellowship

Westminster College
B. S. – Chemistry

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Pía López

Allergan Fellowship

Bryn Mawr College
B. A. — Chemistry

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Martin Stang

2023 NMR Graduate Fellow

Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg
M. Sc. — Chemistry
B. Sc. — Chemistry

Vy Pham

University of California, Irvine
B. S. – Chemistry

Patrick McShea

Marist College
B. S. – Chemistry

Sylvia Lou

Occidental College
B. A. – Chemistry

Yiqing Zhang

University of California, Irvine
B. S. – Chemistry

Alexis Ravenscroft

B. S. – West Virginia University

Undergraduates

Jay Won

University of California, Irvine

GROUP ALUMNI

Graduate Students
Dr. Erin Hanada
Dr. Antonio Garcia IV
Dr. Chao Gao
Tristan Tagawa
Dr. Adena Issaian
Dr. Kim Ngan Tu
Dr. Quinn T. Easter
Dr. Darius Faizi
Dr. Joshua J. Hirner
Dr. Katrina Roth
Dr. Melody Esfandiari
Dr. Jon Bass
Dr. Yilli Shi




Postdoctoral Scholars
Dr. Or Eivgi
Dr. David Josh Dibble
Dr. Kristof Jess
Dr. Hassen Bel Abed
Dr. Nozomi Saito
Dr. Kazuhiro Kitagawa
Dr. Eugene Chong
Dr. Mohammad Al-Amin
Dr. Chao Feng
Dr. Neeladri Das
Dr. Oscar Navarro
Dr. Justin (Sung-gon) Lim
Dr. Eva Hensle


Undergraduate Students
David Gorial
Scott Kim
Stephen Ramgren
Valerie Lieberhaber
Shawn Galven
Nicole Nava
Andreas Ehnbohm
Ashlee Davis


Visiting Students
Dorothee Brandt
Esteban Danloy
Andreas Hess
Shuichi Nakao
Akito Oogi


Eva Hahn
Vanessa Trauschke
Dr. Jasper H.M. van der Velde
Fiach Meany
Alexis Ravenscroft
David Calderon

Visiting Professors
Prof. RJ Mycka (The Community College of Allegheny County)

Current Position
Postdoctoral Scholar, Meggers Group (Marburg University)
Postdoctoral Scholar, Srivastava Group (UCLA)
Promega (R&D, Researcher)
Air Liquide (Scientist)
Palomar College (Assistant Professor)
Orange Coast College (Adjunct Faculty)
ADA Science and Research Institute (Senior Research Associate)
Tomlin Scientific (Director of Product Management)
Catapower (Senior Scientist)
Ivy Tech Community College (Lecturer)
San Jose State University (Lecturer)
AbbVie (Patent Agent)
Honeywell UOP (Lead Scientist)




Current Position
Postdoctoral Scholar, Blasco Group (Heidelberg University)
RxSite, Inc. (Senior Synthetic Organic Chemist)
Ostfalia - University of Applied Sciences
Dice Therapeutics (Scientist)
Astamuse (Consultant)
Showa Denko/Resonac (Research Scientist)
Boehringer Ingleheim (Research Scientist)
Research Scientist (Zentalis Pharmaceuticals)
Element Biosciences (Research Scientist)
Indian Institute of Technology, Patna (Professor)
University of Portland (Research Professor)
California State University, Long Beach (Lecturer)
Merck & Cie (Head of Quality Control)


Current Position
AviSyn Pharma (Associate Scientist)
Ph.D. Student, Schindler Group (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Research Scientist (Neurocrine Biosciences; PhD UCLA)
Dentist (University of Washington Medical Center)
Chemistry Teacher (Temescal Canyon High School)
Gilead Sciences (Research Associate)
Indiana University, Postdoctoral Fellow (after Ph.D. Student, Gladysz Group (TAMU))
Eli Lilly (Advisor, after PhD, University of Michigan))


Current Position
Doctoral student, University of Namur
Master’s student, University of Namur
Postdoctoral Researcher, Trauner Group (University of Pennsylvania)
Researcher (Morinomiya Center, Osaka Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology)
Researcher (Angel Japan Co.)
Assistant Technical Manager (Denso Europe)
Consultant (Simon-Kucher & Partners)
Scientific Coordinator (CogniGron - University of Groningen)
PhD, then Pfizer Process Development, Ireland
Undergraduate, West Virginia University
Cal State San Bernardino