Meet the Team

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Ranjeesh Thenarukandiyil

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Ranjeesh was a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Graham de Ruiter and a recipient of the prestigious PBC Fellowship. In 2022, he returned to India where his currently a post-doctoral researcher.

Satheesh Vanaparthi

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Satheesh was a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Graham de Ruite in 2021. Currently he is a currently performing a second post-doctoral research in the United States

Chinna Ayya Swamy P

Assistant Professor

Chinna was a post-doctoral researcher in the group of Prof. Graham de Ruiter from 2019-2020.  He is now an assistant professor at the National Institute of Technology in Calicut (India).

PhD Students

Subhash Garhwal

4th Year Graduate Student

Subhash obtained his M.Sc. Degree from IISER Bhopal in 2018, whereafter he joined the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry as a Ph.D. student to work with Prof. Graham de Ruiter. His research is centered around developing new iron pincer complexes as catalysts for challenging organic transformations

Adam Brill

Patent Attorney

Adam was a graduate student in the group of Prof. Graham de Ruiter and Prof. Elad Koren. He is currently with the Fisher Friedman IP Group (IP) working as a patent attorney.

Undergraduate & Visiting Students

Phillip Effnert

Visiting Master Student

Phillip is a M.Sc. student in the group of Prof. Bart Jan Ravoo at Munster University. He joined the group of Prof. Graham de Ruiter in July 2021 as a summer student

Ron Rafaeli

Master Student

Ron is a talented young chemist who completed his B.Sc. degree in 2021 at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry. He enjoys research in catalysis, where is looking for new methodologies in cobalt-catalyzed alkene isomerization

Elyzabeth Camacho

Art Student

Elyzabeth was our first visiting student from Caltech (Class of 2019), who spend the summer in our laboratory as an undergraduate researcher.  We hope she enjoyed her time at the Technion

Angelina ye

Computer Scientist

Angelina was our second visiting student from Caltech (Class of 2019), She is currently back in Pasadena (California), where she studies computer science.