The Busschaert Group Members

 

Nathalie Busschaert

  Nathalie Busschaert
  Assistant 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 Herschede PhD, 2017-2022

 

Undergraduate Students

2022

 Katie Lewis BS student

2022

 Hannah Sowell SMART-REU summer student

2021

Arjun Iyer

BS student

2021

Kassidy Doughty

BS student (neuroscience)

2021

Thao Le

SMART-REU summer student

2021

Max Drury

visiting summer student

2020

Kelli Jablon

BS student (neuroscience)

2019-2020

Jorgi Mandelbaum   

BS student (chemistry)

2019-2020

Jaqueline Wagner

BS student (sociology)

2019

Taylor Dent

SMART-REU summer student

2018-...

Anmol Singh

BS student (biomedical engineering)

2018-2019   

Ellen Jaeger

BS student (biochemistry)

 

Visiting Scholars

 2022   

Marta Zaleskaya-Hernik

Visiting PhD student from the University of Warsaw, Poland