The Busschaert Group Members

Nathalie Busschaert

Nathalie Busschaert   Associate Professor   Ph.D., University of Southampton (UK)   MSc, KU Leuven (Belgium)   BSc, KU Leuven (Belgium)

Originally born in Antwerp, Belgium, Nathalie Busschaert completed a BSc in chemistry at the KU Leuven, Belgium, and continued studying for an MSc in chemistry at the same university. She then moved to the University to Southampton (UK) in 2010 to undertake a PhD under the supervision of Professor Philip A. Gale, with research stays at A*STAR, Singapore, and the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2015 she joined the group of Andrew Hamilton at the University of Oxford to work as a post-doctoral researcher. In January 2016 she followed prof. Andrew Hamilton to New York University. She is currently working as an assistant professor at Tulane University. Her research interests are membrane recognition, ion transport and other supramolecular applications of lipid bilayers. She is the founder and organizer of the North American Supramolecular Chemistry (NASC) meetings, which bring supramolecular chemists across the continent together and to provide opportunities for PhD students and postdocs to network and present their research to an interested audience (https://nascmeeting.com/).

Doctoral Students

	Kamil Akhtar joined fall 2024
	Surid Chowdhury BS (pharmacy), University of Dhaka MS (pharmacy), University of Dhaka joined spring 2021
	W.A. Randima Dilrushi De Silva BS (chemistry), University of Colombo BS (biomedical science), KAATSU International University joined fall 2022
	Emmanuel Ojah BS (chemistry), MS (chemistry), University of Ibadan joined fall 2021
	Uththara Rathnaweera BS (chemistry), University of Kelaniya joined spring 2022

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