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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

THE GROUP

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GROUP NEWS

The Group
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David C. Powers
Professor
powers@chem.tamu.edu
Office: Chem 1223
979.862.3089
curriculum vitae

Dave was born in Allentown, PA in 1983. He received his undergraduate education in Lancaster, PA at Franklin and Marshall College where he conducted undergraduate research with Professor Phyllis Leber investigating the mechanisms of gas-phase hydrocarbon isomerization reactions. In 2006, Dave moved to Harvard University to pursue graduate studies with Professor Tobias Ritter and investigated the role of metal–metal redox cooperation in C–H oxidation catalysis. After receiving a Ph.D. in 2011, Dave joined Professor Daniel Nocera's research group as an NIH post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, where he studied molecular photocataylsis for solar energy conversion. In 2015, Dave moved to Texas A&M University as an assistant professor. His research program is based on synthetic organic and inorganic chemistry with an emphasis on developing reaction chemistry for sustainable synthesis.

Powers
Postdoctoral Scientists
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Richard Thompson
Post-doctoral Scholar
vmdt60@tamu.edu
Research interests: 
Reactive Intermediates

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Promita Biswas
Post-doctoral Scholar
pbiswas@tamu.edu
Research interests: 
Pyridinium Aziridine Derivatization

POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS

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Promita Biswas
Post-doctoral Scholar
pbiswas@tamu.edu
Research interests: 
Pyridinium Aziridine Derivatization

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Duleeka Wannipurage
Post-doctoral Scholar
sneha2014@tamu.edu
Research interests: 
Reactive Intermediates

Graduate Students
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Pritam Roychowdhury
pritamroy@tamu.edu
Research interests:
Amine transfer reagent
design

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Hao Tan
tanhao9703@tamu.edu
Research interests:
Amine transfer reagent
design

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Aishanee Sur
aishanee_95@tamu.edu
Research interests:
Lattice isolated metal active sites

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Phong Thai
phongthai@tamu.edu
Research interests:
Hypervalent iodine electrocatalysis

GRADUATE STUDENTS

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Samya Samanta
samya.samanta@tamu.edu

Research interests:
Amine transfer reagent
design

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Arpan Paikar 
paikararpan@tamu.edu

Research interests:
Reactive Intermediates

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Matthew Figgins
mtfiggins@tamu.edu  

Research interests:
Reactive Intermediates

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Debasmita Dutta
debasmitadutta@tamu.edu 
Research interes
ts:
Reactive Intermediates

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Uddalak Sengupta
udda@tamu.edu  

Research interests:
Amine transfer reagent design

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Subham Sarkar
subham98@tamu.edu
Research interests:

Lattice isolated metal active sites

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Lauv Patel
lauv@tamu.edu  

Research interests:
Hypervalent iodine electrocatalysis

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Diyasha Manna
diyashamanna@tamu.edu
Research interests:

N-Amino pyridinium
reagents

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Cali Kucifer
calikucifer@tamu.edu  

Research interests:
N-Amino pyridinium
reagents

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Arka Sinha
arkas23@tamu.edu  

Research interests:
Lattice isolated metal
active sites

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Justin Kendrick
jkenrick@tamu.edu
Research interests:

Reactive Intermediates

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Edgar Damian Ascencio
ea.damian.ascencio@tamu.edu 

Research interests:
N-Amino pyridinium
reagents

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Bodhisattwa Mandal
bodhisattwa_222@tamu.edu

Research interests:
Lattice isolated metal
active sites

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Isaac Deavenport
Research interests:
Pyridinium Amine reagents

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Lauren Brown
Research interests:

Preparation of N-aminopyridinium derivatives

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Saim Waheed
Research interests:

Pyridinium Amine reagents

Undergraduates

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

ALUMNI

Post–Doctoral Scholars

Dr. Richard Thompson
(2021-2023)
Assistant Professor at University of Idaho

Dr. Debabrata Sengupta (2020-2021)
Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University 

Dr. Wenyang Gao (2018-2020)
New Mexico Institute of Technology

Dr. Hye-Jeong Park (2016-2017)
Samsung

 

Graduate Students

Dr. Ashley Cardenal (Ph.D. 2019)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Oberlin College & Conservatory

Dr. Chen-Hao Wang (Ph.D 2020)
Post-Doctoral scholar at Serena DeBeer's lab at Max Planck Institute

Dr. Anuvab Das (Ph.D. 2020)
Post-Doctoral scholar for Dr. Frances Arnold at California Institute of Technology

Dr. Sung-Min Hyun (Ph.D. 2020)
Post-Doctoral scholar for Dr. Adam Veige at University of Florida

Dr. Asim Maity
(Ph.D. 2022)
Senior Scientist at The Dow Chemical Company


Dr. Gerard Van Trieste(Ph.D. 2022)
Etch Module Engineer at Intel

Dr. Brandon Frey (Ph.D. 2023)
Post-Doctoral scholar at NREL National labs, Colorado


Dr. Mario N. Cosio (Ph.D. 2023)
Chemist at Boulder Scientific, Colorado

Dr. Andrew A. Ezazi (Ph.D. 2023)
Post-Doctoral scholar for Dr. Sarbajit Banerjee, Texas A&M University

Undergraduate Students

Braeden C. O'Bannon

Laboratory Technician, BioVeritas

Rodas Hagos
Student
, UT Health Houston

Veronica Knipp
M.S. Finance, Penn State University

Aiden Gomez
Graduate Student, UPenn

Roberto Herrera
Graduate Student, MIT

Victoria Akwaowo 
Scribe at UT Southwestern Children's Hospital
 
Jeremy Beaty 
Process Engineer, Solvay

Kimberlie Chudej
Quality Control Technician

Kailyn Cohen (REU)
Graduate Student, Princeton University 

Carolyn Divita
Synthesis Tech, Dow Chemical Company

Madeline Hicks
Graduate Student, CalTech

Connor Hoffman
U.S Air Force Flight School

Brianna Lilly
Manufacturing Associate Supervisor, PepsiCo

Austin Miller (REU)
Graduate Student, UNC Chapel Hill

Kacey Ortiz
Graduate Student, Auburn University

Danna Pinto
Manufacturing Technician, Fujifilm

Meredith Spradlin 
Graduate Student, U. Texas Austin

Haleigh Stafford​

Alan Wortman
Graduate Student, University of Michigan 

Ryan Wise 
Graduate Student, University of Florida

TEACHING

Organic Chemistry I

Chem 227

Organic Reactions

Chem 610

Introduction to
Organometallics

Teaching

CONTACT US

979-862-3089

Texas A&M University

Department of Chemistry

P.O. Box 30012

College Station, TX 77840

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