Current Members
Dr. Huw M.L. Davies
a.k.a "The Boss"
Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Chemistry
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Department of Chemistry
Emory University
440 Atwood Hall
1515 Dickey Drive
Atlanta GA 30322
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Email: hmdavie (at) emory.edu
Huw M. L. Davies was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, UK. He received his B. Sc. degree from University College Cardiff, Wales (1977) and his Ph. D degree from the University of East Anglia (1980). After a post-doctoral position at Princeton University (1980-1983), he joined the faculty at Wake Forest University (1883-1995). After being promoted to full professor he moved to the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York (1995-2008) where he held the positions of UB Distinguished Professor and Larkin Professor of Organic Chemistry. In 2008 he moved to Emory University as the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Chemistry.
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Professor Davies’ research emphasizes the development of new enantioselective synthetic methods and their applications in total synthesis and drug discovery. A major current theme of his program is catalytic asymmetric C–H functionalization by means of rhodium-carbene induced C–H insertion. He is currently the Director of the NSF Center for Chemical Innovation for Selective C-H Functionalization, which brings together 23 faculty members from 15 universities.
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Professor Davies is actively involved in the chemical community, having served as the Executive Officer of the 2003 National Organic Symposium, the 2005 Program Chair of the Gordon Conference on Heterocyclic Compounds, the 2005 Chair of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society, and Co-Organizer of the ACS Organic Division Assistant Professor Symposium at the Fall ACS meeting since 2006. He is an Associate Editor for Chemical Society Reviews and has been as Associate Editor of Organic Reactions (2005-2010) and Organic Syntheses (2008-2016). Recent awards include the American Chemical Society Cope Scholar Award (2005), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2007), Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2009), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), 2013 eEROS Reagent of the Year Award, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2015), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award (2017), the Paul N. Rylander Award (2018) and the ACS Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods (2019).
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Christian Bettencourt
Bachelor of Biotechnology (Hons), The University of Queensland
2017
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Ph.D. Chemistry, The University of Queensland
2022 - - Dr. Craig M. Williams
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Member of the the Royal Australian Chemical Institute
Yasir Naeem
B.A. Chemistry, Hunter College
2019 - Dr. David Mootoo & Dr. Adam Braunschweig
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B.A. History, Hunter College
2015
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Yujie Jasper Luo
B.S. Chemistry with Biology concentration & Minor in Studio Arts, University of Pittsburgh
2020 – Dr. Peter Wipf
Josh Sailer
B.S. Chemistry, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
2019 – Dr. Michael Walter
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Kristin Shimabukuro
B.S. Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UC Davis
2020 - Dr. Jared T. Shaw
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Ziyi Chen
BSc. Chemistry, Wuhan University
2020 - Dr. Xiu-Qin Dong & Dr. Xumu Zhang
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Research Assistant, Changzhou University
2021 - Dr. Hai Huang & Dr. Jianwei Sun
Duc Ly
​B.E. Chemical Engineering, Honors Program, HCMC University of Technology
2021 - Dr. Nam T. S. Phan
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Kagiso Sebetela
​M.S & B.S Chemistry,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2023 - Dr. John Montgomery
Takeru Saito
​B.S. Chemical Engineering
Purdue University
2020 - Dr. Mingji Dai
Minor in Chemistry & Maths
Evan Weingarten
Senior – B.S. Chemistry & B.A. Philosophy
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Jay Baek
Junior – B.S. Chemistry
Former Graduate Students
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Dr. Jack Sharland
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Dr. Yannick Boni
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Dr. Bo Wei
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Dr. Aaron Bosse
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Dr. Robert W. Kubiak II
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Dr. Benjamin Wertz
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Dr. Jiantao Fu
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Dr. Bowen Zhang
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Dr. Wenbin Liu
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Dr. Kuangbiao Liao
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Dr. Liangbing Fu
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Dr. Kathryn M. Chepiga
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Dr. David M. Guptill
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Dr. Joshua Alford
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Dr. Felicia Fullilove
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Dr. Changming Qin
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Dr. Brendan Parr
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Dr. Pablo Guzman
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Dr Jiaye Hu
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Dr. Hengbin Wang
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Dr. John F. Briones
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Dr. Stephanie Ovalles
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Dr. Spandan Chennamadhavuni
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Dr. Yajing Lian
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Dr. Zhanjie Li
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Dr. Jørn Hansen
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Dr. Jeremy Olson
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Dr. Dominic Ventura
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Dr. Justin Denton
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Dr. James Manning
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Dr. Jonathan Brekan
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Dr. Ravisekhara Reddy
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Dr. Mike Coleman
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Dr. Aiwu Ni
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Dr. Xing Dai
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Dr. Janelle Thompson
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Dr. Jessica France
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Dr. Abbas M. Walji
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Dr. Qihui Jin
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Dr. Gene Lee
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Dr. Chandrasekar Venkataramani
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Dr. Evan Antoulinakis
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Dr. Yasuno Yokota
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Dr. Stephen Panaro
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Dr. Douglas G. Stafford
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Dr. Tore Hansen
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Dr. Oystein Loe
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Dr. Rebecca Calvo
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Dr. Brian Doan
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Dr. Jeffrey Houser
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Dr. Paul Bruzinski
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Dr. William Cantrell
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Dr. Baihua Hu
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Dr. Elie Saikali
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Dr. Jeff Clark
Former Postdoctoral Scholars
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Dr. Xun Yang
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Dr. Zhi Ren
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Dr. Janakiram Vaitla
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Dr. Zachary J. Garlets
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Dr. Sydney M. Wilkerson-Hill
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Dr. Jeffrey Mighion
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Dr. LaDena A. Bolton
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Dr. Daniel Rackl
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Dr. Sandeep Raikar
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Dr. Cecilia Tortoreto
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Dr. Solymar Negretti
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Dr. Felicia Fullilove
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Dr. Nicholas Brunelli
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Dr. Jillian Spangler
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Dr. Austin Smith
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Dr. Damien Valette
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Dr. Vyacheslav Boyarskikh
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Dr. Daniel Morton
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Dr. Etienne Nadeau
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Dr. Masafumi Nakanishi
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Dr. Phillip Pelphrey
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Dr. Allison Dick
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Dr. Simon Hedley
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Dr. Jun Xu
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Dr. Joachim Nikolai
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Dr. Peter Scott
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Dr. Matthew Long
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Dr. Rohan Beckwith
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Dr. Jaemoon Yang
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Dr. Dominique Belanger
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Dr. Robert Townsend
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Dr. Monica Rocha
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Dr. Pingda Ren
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Dr. Darren Hopper
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Dr. Tadamichi Nakashima
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Dr. Norman Kong
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Dr. Gulzar Ahmed
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Dr. Julius Matasi
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Dr. Mark Hodges
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Dr. Nick Huby
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Dr. Craig Thornle
Former Masters Students
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Matthew Chuba
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Yuxing Wang
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Matt Smentek
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David Smith
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Melinda McAffee
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Wendy Young
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Debra Hutcheson
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Zhi Qiang Peng
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James Klino
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Leatte Ruziniak
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Bangping Xiang
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Lisa Nollenberger
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Liang Deng
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Joshua Sabatini
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Jason Meese
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Lisa Nollenberger