Huge congratulations to the fifth year Doylies who just defended their theses: Dr. Wendy Williams, Dr. Kassandra Sedillo, and Dr. Shivaani Gandhi! We are so proud of them and wish them the very best in the next steps of their careers!
Sam, Julia, and Izzy recently defended their theses – congratulations to Drs. Newman-Stonebraker, Borowski, and Leibler! We will miss them dearly and wish them the best of luck in their exciting next steps.
We had a marathon of FPOs this week as we celebrated the newly minted Drs. Kariofillis, Ting, and Lau. Members of the Doyle lab returned to Princeton to defend their theses, showing off their five years of hard work and sharing in the company of their east coast colleagues. We will miss them dearly
On June 22, Mia gave an outstanding final public oral to the department on her work in the Doyle Lab, which focused on asymmetric Ni-catalyzed cross-couplings! She recently headed south to UNC Chapel Hill, where she will be a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Prof. Frank Leibfarth. Congratulations on a well-earned PhD, and
On April 29th, Eric Webb gave his departmental Final Public Oral to a packed Zoom audience, making the Doyle Lab’s first virtual thesis defense a success! Congrats on your PhD, Dr. Webb!
Jesús successfully completed his final public oral! He will be moving north from the wilderness of Central New Jersey to the NYC area, and will begin a position at Merck Rahway in the fall. Congratulations Jesús!
Erin successfully defended her thesis! She will be joining the lab of Professor Brett Fors at Cornell University this summer as a postdoctoral fellow. Congratulations Erin on a well-deserved degree, and we wish you the best of luck at Cornell!
Matthew Nielsen successfully completed his final public oral! He will be enjoying Georgia with his family after graduation as he begins his new job as a Research Scientist at Solvay Specialty Polymers. Congratulations Matt!
Patrick successfully defended his thesis! He will be conducting postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan in the lab of Professor Anne McNeil. Best of luck Patrick! You will be missed!
Derek successfully defended his thesis! He will be applying his expertise at IBM based in Maryland as an advanced analytics data scientist! Congratulations Derek on a well-deserved degree and best of luck to you as you begin your new job!
The Doyle Lab • Prof. Abigail Doyle
Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA
3515 Molecular Science Building • Los Angeles, CA 90095
agdoyle@chem.ucla.edu • Phone: (310) 206-1036