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 organizing the first North American Supramolecular Chemistry (NASC) meetin in December 2022, to 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://nasc2022.wordpress.com/).

 

Doctoral Students

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

Mario Gonzalez
BS (chemistry), University of Miami
joined fall 2019

 

Sarah Marshall
BS (biology), University of East Carolina
MS (chemistry), University of East Carolina
joined fall 2017
Emmanuel Ojah
BS (chemistry),
MS (chemistry), University of Ibadan
joined fall 2021
Uththara Rathnaweera
BS (chemistry), University of Kelaniya
joined spring 2022
Rayhanus Salam
BS (pharmacy), University of Dhaka
MS (pharmacy), University of Dhaka
joined fall 2018
Elliot Williams
BS (biochemistry), University of Central Florida
joined fall 2017

 

Alumni

Sarah HerschedePhD, 2017-2022

 

Undergraduate Students

2022Katie LewisBS student
2022Hannah SowellSMART-REU summer student
2021Arjun IyerBS student
2021Kassidy DoughtyBS student (neuroscience)
2021Thao LeSMART-REU summer student
2021Max Druryvisiting summer student
2020Kelli JablonBS student (neuroscience)
2019-2020Jorgi Mandelbaum   BS student (chemistry)
2019-2020Jaqueline WagnerBS student (sociology)
2019Taylor DentSMART-REU summer student
2018-...Anmol SinghBS student (biomedical engineering)
2018-2019   Ellen JaegerBS student (biochemistry)

 

Visiting Scholars

 2022   Marta Zaleskaya-HernikVisiting PhD student from the University of Warsaw, Poland