Duties & Responsibilities

• Design, synthesize, purify, and characterize target molecules of interest.
• Provide oversight, direction, and supervision of graduate students, research personnel (including postdoctoral fellows and grad assistants) and undergraduate students in organic and medicinal chemistry research. Provide mentoring of personnel in lab protocol, experimentation methods and project assignments. Oversee both undergraduate and graduate students regarding their scientific progress.
• Collaborate with colleagues at various other institutions on research initiatives.
• Prepare manuscripts for publication.
• Utilize and optimize automated laboratory equipment and processes. Develop and maintain scripts and software tools in Python for data analysis and instrument control. Stay current with advancements in organic synthesis, laboratory automation and programming languages.
• Prepare grant applications for submission to the federal government and draft the annual scientific reports for awarded grants.