Riordan Group Alumni

Postdocs

Dr. R. V. Aruna (postdoc, 1994-1996) Research Scientist at Atul Ltd. Pharmaceuticals, India
Dr. M. S. Ram (postdoc, 1993-1995) Staff Scientist in Grain Marketing at KSU
Dr. Andrew Cottone (postdoc, 2001) Vice President, Chemistry, Adesis, Inc.
Dr. Alexandra Whalley (postdoc, 2001) Postdoc, Cambridge University

Dr. Yoshinobu Ishikawa (postdoc, 2002-03) Associate Professor, University of Shizuoka, Japan
Dr. Koyu Fujita (postdoc, 2002-05) Design Coordinator, Kasai North America, Inc.
Dr. Rangan Krishnan (postdoc, 2002-05) Associate Professor, Chemistry, BITS Pilani-Hyderabad Campus

Dr. Beaven Mandimutsira (postdoc 1997-2001; research associate 2003-06) Research Chemist, LyondellBasell Chemical Company

Dr. Nate Eckert (postdoc 2005-07) Project Leader, Shepherd Chemical Company

Dr. Jaehueng Cho (postdoc 2005-07) Assistant Professor, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology, Korea

Graduate Students

Pinghua Ge (M.S. 1996 (KSU), Ph.D. 2000 (UD)) Research Physicist, Dept. Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carl Ohrenberg (Ph.D. 1998 (KSU)) Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, GA
Peter Schebler (Ph.D. 2001 (UD)) Principal Scientist/Group Leader, Eurofins Lancaster Laboratories, Lancaster, PA
Ali Turkan (M.S. 1996 (KSU)) Ph.D. Biochemistry, KSU
Mike Coxey (M.A. 2001) Business Manager, Americas, BASF
Jennifer Yamarik Gingerich (M.A. 2002) Senior Application Service Specialist, Netsmart Technologies
Janis Voo (Ph.D. 2002) Chief Chemist, Waltron Bull & Roberts, LLC
Sowmya Subramanian (M.S. 2004 (UD)) Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico-Los Alamos Campus
Show-Jen Chiou (Ph.D. 2004) Associate Professor, Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiayi University, Taiwan

Julie DuPont (Ph.D. 2006) Laboratory Quality Assurance Officer, Electric Boat

William Dougherty (Ph.D. 2007) Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry Susquehanna University

Sharon Hatalla (M.A. 2007) R&D chemist, DuPont Deepwater

Michael Mock (Ph.D. 2007) Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry  & Biochemistry, Montana State University

Matt Kieber-Emmons (Ph.D. 2008) Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Utah

Tina Tao Maynes (M.A. 2008) Coordinator of Academic Support, St. Lawrence University

Molly O’Hagan (Ph.D. 2010), Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry  & Biochemistry, Montana State University

Piyal Ariyananda (Ph.D. 2010), General Manager MAS Holdings

Joliene Trujillo (M.S. 2010), Senior Quality Engineer, Novartis

Yingxin Huang (Ph.D. 2014) Senior Chemist, Medical Developments International, Melbourne, Australia

Megan Shalaida (Ph.D. 2014)

Jessica Wallick (Ph.D. 2015) Research Scientist, Solvay

Peng Wang (Ph.D. 2015) Manufacturing and QC Chemist, SpexCertiPrep, Metuchen, NJ

Ann Ploskonka (M.S. 2015) Scientist, Leidos, Inc. Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Bryan Klebon (M.S. 2015), R&D Chemist, LaMotte Company

Bill Green (Ph.D. 2016) Inorganic Manufacturing Manager, SpexCertiPrep, Metuchen, NJ

Lauren Cordeiro (Ph.D. 2018) Project Coordinator, Endeavor Consulting Group

Undergraduates

Anna Browning – KSU 1996 graduate student, KSU
Heather Bunting – UD 2001; employed with Astra Zeneca
Mauro Calabrese – summer research student (UD 1999), University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2001, postdoc, UNC-Chapel Hill
Julia Drewes – summer research student (UD 2005), Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Jill Harland, doctoral student, University of Michigan with Nicolai Lehnert
Tim Hubin – KSU 1994; Professor, Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Julie Innocent Woods, M.D. - UD May 2000; Oncologist, Danville, PA
Gary Lee –summer research student (KSU 1993), Nottingham Trent University exchange student

Jeff Lopez – UD May 2013; Postdoctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute

Melissa Fennemore - UD 2002; Teacher, Middletown, DE High School
John Maccri - UD 2000; employed with Barry Callebaut Chocolate
Brian Maduskuie - UD 2003

Charlotte (Mason) Whited - UD 2006; Grants Coordinator and Compliance Specialist, Carleton College
Claron Ridge - UD 2005; Ph.D., UC-Santa Barbara, postdoc, Technical University of Munich

Mohammed Saleem – KSU summer research student (KSU 1994), Oklahoma University
Jason Smee – KSU 1994; Associate Professor, University of Texas-Tyler
Joe Schmidt – KSU 1997; Associate Professor, University of Toledo

Stephen Tereniak – UD, 2009; Scientist, Boulder Scientific

Matt White ­– UD, 2013; graduate student, UC-Berkeley
Gary Williams – summer research student (KSU 1994) Nottingham Trent University exchange student