Elena Galoppini

About Us: The Group

 

Coming soon: click on the pictures to learn more

about each group member

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rutgers University

Chemistry Department

73 Warren Street

Newark

New Jersey  07102

U.S.A.

 

EG office tel:

 973-353-5317

 

Labs  tel:

973-353-

973-353-

 

Fax:

973-353-1264

 

Maps & Directions

 

 

 Former group members (updated ~ 2005)

 

Postdocs / Visiting students

 

2003-2004          Miroslav Zabadal   (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

2002-2003         Giovanni Zordan  (now at Reckitt-Benkiser Italia )

2001-2002          Rajesh Thotapally  (now at U of Connecticut Medical School)

2000                    visiting student, Gianluca Pardi  (University of Pisa, Italy, school of pharmacy)

1999-2000         Chebolu Ravikrishna       (now at Sabinsa Corp., NJ)

Summer 1999     Gunilla I. Rydja, visiting student, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden ( CHUST Fellow)

 

Graduate Students

 

2005 (Ph.D.)      Qian Wei (  postdoc at University of Pennsylvania, biochemistry dept )

             “Properties and applications of adamantane-based organic molecules”

 

2004 (Ph.D)       Dong Wang (postdoc at the University of Houston, chemistry dept)

             “Rigid-rod Sensitizers for Functionalization of TiO2 nanoparticles”

 

2003 (Ph.D)       Wei Zhang (  postdoc at University of Pennsylvania, medical school )

                           “[2+2]-photocycloadditions of tethered dicylopentadienes”

 

2003 (M.S)         Aiping Liu

                          “Synthesis of Si based Tripodal TiO2 Sensitizers with a large footprint”

 

2001 (Ph.D)       Wenzhuo Guo (now at Kovio, Inc.)

                           Recipient of the 2001 Dean Dissertation Award

                           “Properties and Applications of Tetrahedral Organic

                           Molecules; New Tripodal TiO2 Sensitizers”          

 

1999 (M.S.(        Yi-Heng Chen (now at Merck)

                          “Hydrogen-bonding in Supramolecular Networks”

 

Undergraduate Students

 

2004                  Stephanie Witko

                         Dorothy Chu (Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow)

2002                  Sherrad Okeyo (Rutgers Undergraduate Research Fellow)

2000                  Ravi Katawaru

1997                  Paresh Patel

1997                  Jenny Dong

1997                  Jagruti Patel (Howard Hughes Research Fellow)

1997                   Akanhska Patel

 

High School Students

as part of the American Chemical Society Project SEED Program

Summer 2004 Nishit Shah, From Dickinson High School, Jersey City, NJ

Summer 1998 Vinti Shah, from High Tech High School, North Bergen, NJ

 

 

 

Some Old Pictures

2002

2000

Undergraduate  Students

Postdocs

Massimiliano Lamberto

Jonathan

Rochford

Graduate Students

Dorothy Chu

Olena

Taratula

Sujatha

Thyagarajan

Zhiyong

Wu

Yongyi

Zhang