Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal
PhD Yale University 2008
BS Middlebury College 2004
Before starting her career at GWU in 2012, Adelina was a Research Associate and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Yale Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering, focusing on the rational design of functional commercial chemicals with minimal biological activity. Prior to that, she completed her PhD in organometallic chemistry in Yale with Bob Crabtree, focusing on atom-economical catalytic transformations facilitated by NHC complexes. She earned her BA from Middlebury College, where she worked with Prof. Sunhee Choi on the chemistry of Pt anticancer complexes. Her research program at GWU spans the two frontiers of green chemistry – development of green synthetic methods through supported catalysis, as well as the development of predictive methods for identifying chemicals of toxicological concern. She is the recipient of NSF CAREER award, the 2020 Early Career Researcher Award from GWU and the 2021 Thieme Chemistry Journals Award, among others.
Group members
Darren Dolan, PhD candidate
Lara Skibbie (PhD Candidate – joint with Dowd group)
Rebekah Brucato, Graduate student (B.S. ’17, Univ. of North Georgia)
“When all else fails, try the boss’s suggestion.”
Unnamed group alum
Alumni
(PhD and postdocs in blue)
Kai Wang (PhD 2022, Postdoctoral researcher at FDA)
Dr. Jonathan Horlyck (Senior research scientist, Johns Hopkins Univ)
Dr. Diana Ainembabazi (’20 PhD, Postdoctoral Associate Univ. of Illinois)
Anna Steiner (’20, BS/MS Forensics)
Keira Culley (B.S. 2020, Univ. of Colorado PhD)
Christopher Reid (B.S. 2020, UVA PhD)
Miren Lopez (B.S. 2020, MPH Candidate)
Dr. Jacob Heltzel (Senior Engineer, Merck Process Chemistry)
Helia Imani ’19 (UCLA Medical School)
Evan Sandefur ’19 (Medical Tech, Instructor)
Dr. Matthew Finn: ’18, PhD (Navy Research Lab, group of Albert Epshteyn)
Dr. Nan An: ’18, PhD (FDA Contractor, Chemist/Toxicologist, Goldbelt C6, LLC)
Shane Pracar, ’18
Sarah Chachula: ’18 (Dartmouth PhD)
Kavya Samudrala: ’18 (UC Irvine PhD)
Krishna Kesari – Transfer
Hannah Yi: ’16 (U Chicago Phd)
Jenna Sartucci ’16 (Georgetown U PhD)
Adebola Adeniyi ’16 (MS Layola Chicagi)
Aneta Kowalski ’14: NIH Researcher
Arturo Azua (Res. Assoc., Research Foundation CUNY)
Philip Cho ’14 (Biologist, Sigfried Irvine)
Alex Moran ’14 (PhD in Epidemiology, UCLA)
Tom Savage ’13: MD Candidate
Yuechuan (Tony) Tang ’14 (MS Mathematics Finance Boston Univ)
Farid Van Der Mei ’13: PhD Boston College, Scientist Calgene Pharma
Catherine Munro ’12 (PhD Univ of Miami, Postdoc Khalifa Univ)
Monica Mehte ’12
Jaishri Atri ’12 (Consultant, Deloitte)
Scientific Genealogy
Thanks to Bob Crabtree for sharing!
Group Pictures
2020 (pre-Pandemic), with Prof. Gabriel Lemcoff (visiting scientist) and baby Kaya
2018
Research posters 2019