Meet Our Team

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Sharani Roy

Principal Investigator

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Matthew Curry

Graduate Student
B.S. Biochemistry
Charleston Southern University

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Dakota Landrie

Graduate Student
B.S. Chemistry and Math
The University of Tennessee

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Bright Daniel

Graduate Student
B.S. Industrial Chemistry
University of Port Harcourt

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Nicholas Arnold

Graduate Student
B.S. Chemistry and Cell and Molecular Biology
Western New Mexico University

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Adam Wunschel

Undergraduate Student
B.S.  Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, est. 2024
The University of Tennessee

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Shelby Belt

Undergraduate Student
B.S. Chemistry, est. 2026
The University of Tennessee

Alumni

  • Carson Mize (graduate student) joined the Meyer group at Leiden University as a postdoctoral research associate in January 2024.

  • Graci Sexton (undergraduate student) joined Terracon as a field scientist in January 2024.

  • Antonio Harris (undergraduate student) joined the Masters program in education at the University of Tennessee in August 2022.

  • Elizabeth Lander (undergraduate student) joined the Ph.D. program in chemistry at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in August 2023.

  • Kristopher Reynolds (undergraduate student) joined the Ph.D. program in chemistry at Harvard University in August 2021.

  • Seth Street (undergraduate student) joined the MD program at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in August 2021.

  • K. Reid Mason (undergraduate student) joined Sherwin-Williams as a research chemist (leadership development program) in June 2021.

  • Rob Chapleski (postdoctoral research associate) joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a postdoctoral research associate in January 2020.

  • Sara Isbill (graduate student) joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a postdoctoral research associate in July 2019.

  • Trell Stroud (undergraduate student) joined the MD program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in August 2020.

  • Conner Masteran (NSF REU student) joined the Ph.D. program in chemistry at Virginia Tech in August 2019.

  • Jesse Kern (postdoctoral research associate) joined Randolph College as an assistant professor of chemistry in August 2017.

  • Bradley Terry (NSF REU student) joined the Ph.D. program in chemistry at the University of Michigan in August 2017.

Sharani Roy

  • Associate Professor of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

  • Postdoctoral Researcher, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

  • Ph.D. in Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT

  • M.Sc. in Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India

  • B.Sc. in Chemistry, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, India

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