Group Members

Graduate Students:

 Jenna Merk - MSc student

Jenna obtained her BSc from the University of Regina in Winter 2022, then chose to stick around for an MSc. Jenna was a member of the University of Regina Cougars Women's Hockey team serving as captain in her final season. As a graduate student-athlete, Jenna was awarded the Canada West Student-Athlete Community Service Award and the University of Regina President's Award. Her research is focused on the synthesis of luminescent molecular liquids and other PAH-based soft materials.  

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Undergraduate Students:

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Jordyn Gunderson

Jordyn joins the lab as a summer NSERC USRA student for 2024. Jordyn's research is focused on the bottom-up synthesis of larger extended PAH systems.

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Valeriia Kovbasa

Valeriia joins the lab for a MITACS Globalink Research Internship over 12 weeks from July-September 2024. Her research is focused on the synthesis of small cyclophanes 

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Dmytro Semenets

Dmytro joins the lab for a MITACS Globalink Research Internship over 12 weeks from July-September 2024. His research is focused on developing computational organic chemistry capabilities for out research lab. 

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Lars Pitka

Lars is an undergraduate science student at the University of Regina. He's interested in learning about organic synthesis and is volunteering/learning the ropes in the lab over summer 2024.

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