Principal Investigator

Niveen M. Khashab, PhD

Professor of Chemical Science​​

Research scientists

Arnaud Chaix

Research Interests: Inorganic nanomaterials, Surface functionalization, Supramolecular Chemistry, Schiff-bases macrocycles, 3D hydrogels, hydrogels, Nanomedicine, Gas capture and separation, Gas detection, Pollutant capture, Artificial water channels

Ayeesha Mujeeb

Research Interests: Peptide self-assembly, Peptide-polymer conjugates, 3D hydrogels, Biomaterials, Tissue engineering, Drug delivery systems, Translational research

Basem Moosa, PhD

Research Interests: Supramolecular self-assembly, Organic macrocycles/Cages, Energy intensive Separation

Gengwu Zhang, PhD

Research Interests: Supramolecular Organic Research

Habeeb Muhammed Madathumpady Abubaker, Ph.D.

Scientist​ (Subgroup Red)​

Ibrahim Ali Alradwan

​Visiting Research Scientist

Lin Deng

Research Scientist

Lukman Alimi, PhD

Research Interests: Crystallography, Smart materials, Bionanotechnology

Majed A. Majrashi

​Visiting Research Scientist

Weibin Lin, PhD

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Self-assembly, Functional materials

Postdoctoral Fellows

Arnaud Chaix, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (Subgroup Blue-B)​​​​​​​

Avishek Dey, Ph.D

Research Interests: Macrocycle, Porous frameworks

Bappa Maiti, PhD

Research Interests: Supramolecular Chemistry, synthetic lipids, gene and drug delivery

Bin Hua, PhD

Research Interests: Supramolecular Chemistry, Macrocycles, Host-guest interaction

Carine Maaliki, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (Subgroup Blue-A)​​​​​

Dingyuan Zhang

Postdoctoral fellow​

Fang Fang, PhD

Research Interests: Polymer composites, Porous materials

Iljoon Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow

Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat, PhD

Research Interests: Supramolecular Chemistry, Covalent organic cages, Drug delivery

Jinrong Wang, PhD

Research Interests: Smart hydrogel actuators, Sensors, High strength membrane materials

Jonas Croissant, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow​​​ (Subgroup III: Biomaterials)

Lianzhe Hu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mohamed Abdelghafour

Postdoctoral Fellows

Research Interests: 3D hydrogels, Bioengineering, Biomaterials, Biopolymers, Drug delivery, hydrogels

Mohammed Ikbal, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow (Subgroup II: Sensing materials)​

Monalisa Gangopadhyay, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Munmun Ghosh, PhD

Research Interests: Organic-inorganic hybrid materials

Namita Singh, PhD

Research Interests: MOFs, Bio applications, Gas adsorption

Patricia Martins, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (Subgroup III: Biomaterials)

Peiren Liu, PhD

Research Interests: Synthetic macrocycles, Functional polymer materials

Sachin P. Patil, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (Subgroup I: Industrial materials)

Sana Ahmed, Ph.D

Research Interests: Biomaterials, Immunotherapy, Protein delivery, Nanomedicine

Santanu Chand, PhD

Research Interests: Bio medicine, Bio-MOFs, Chiral functional framework, Separation technology

Selim Beyazit, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (Subgroup I: Industrial materials)

Shahad Alsaiari

Postdoctoral Fellow​

Soumaya Khlifi

Research Interests: Material science, Hybrid composits, Membranes, Polymers, Molecular recognition, Inorganic clusters, Luminescens

Suman Samai

Postdoctoral Fellow

Valentina Carboni, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow (Subgroup Blue-A)​​

Vivekanand Sharma, PhD

Research Interests: Supramolecular Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Crystallography, MOFs, Cages

Xin Liu, PhD

Research Interests: Self-assembly, Porous materials

Yanying Li, PhD

Research Interests: Blood brain barrier, Glioma, Self-assembly, Target

Ye Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yong Guo

Postdoctoral Fellow

Zhuo Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

PhD Students

Afnan A. Mashat

Ph.D. (2015)

Alaa Ezzedine

Ph.D. (2015)

Aliyah Fakim

Research Interests: Drug discovery, Nanoparticles, Medicinal chemistry

Batoul Maatouk

Research Interests: Nanomedicine, Drug delivery systems

Dana Al Kelabi

Research Interests: Drug delivery, Nanotechnology

Elizaveta Maltseva

Research Interests: Organic-inorganic hybrid materials, Biopolymers, Drug delivery, Stimuli responsive materials

Haneen Omar

Ph.D. Student (3rd year, Subgroup Blue-B)​​​

Haochen Wang

Research Interests: Organic chemistry

Hsin-Hua Huang

​Ph.D. Student (1st year, Subgroup Blue-A)​​​

Jingjing Yan

​PhD student

Karim Fhayli

Ph.D. (2016)

Katya Michelle Aguilar Pérez

Research Interests: Nanotechnology, Environmental applications, Drug delivery, Nanoencapsulation

Kholod Alamoudi

Ph.D. (2017)

Khozama Al Mohawes

Research Interests: Porous materials, Supramolecular Organic Research, COFs, Organic Synthesis

Kuikun Yang

​Visiting Student (Subgroup II: Sensing materials)

Laila Elizabeth Khalil Cruz

Research Interests: Supramolecular Chemistry, Self-assembled materials, Stimuli responsive materials

Liwen Zhang

​Ph.D. Student (1st year, Subgroup Green)​

Maria Ferree

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Drug delivery, Materials analysis

Maryam Yaghmour

Research Interests: Organic chemistry, Molecular synthesis, Smart hybrid materials

Mohamed Amen Hammami

Ph.D. (2017)

Nouf BinSaleh

Research Interests: gene and drug delivery, metal-organic frameworks

Othman Alahmed

Research Interests: Drug delivery, Nanotechnology, Nucleic acid loading

Pei Yu

Research Interests: Biosensors, Bioengineering

Phuong Hoang

Ph.D. (2019)​​

Rean Mohammed

PhD Student

Rukhma Javaid

Research Interests: Material science, 3D-bio printing, Tissue engineering, Regenerative medicine, Sustainable production of chemicals and pharmaceuticals

Safa’a Al-Rehili

Ph.D. Student (4th year, Subgroup Green)​​

Saher Rahmani

​Visiting Student (Subgroup I: Industrial materials)

Shahad Alotaiby

Research Interests: Drug delivery

Somayah Qutub

Research Interests: Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, Immune therapy

Song Li

Ph.D. (2015)

Valeriia Nikolaeva

Research Interests: biomedicine, hydrogels, 3D-printing, stimuli-responsive

Viktoriia Zheltova

Research Interests: Magnetite nanoparticles, MRI visualisation, Drug delivery, lipid nanoparticles

Walaa S. Baslyman

Research Interests: Catalysis, Nanomaterials

Wei Zhang

Visiting Student

Wengang Li

Ph.D. (2014)

Xuanfu Zhu

Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Polymers

Yang Zhang

Ph.D. Student

Yevhen Fatieiev

Ph.D. (2017)

Masters Students

Abdulmajeed Hashem

Research Interests: Supramolecular Chemistry, Coordination Cages

Barbora Minichová

​Visiting Student​​​​ (Subgroup Blue-B)​​

Elizaveta Parshina

MS/PhD student

Research Interests: Cages, Functional materials, Functional polymer materials, Macrocycle, Molecular recognition, Molecular synthesis

Ghada S. Alrashid

Research Interests: Drug delivery, Regenerative Nanomedicine

Jesus Marquez Aviles

Research Interests: Drug delivery, Nanotechnology, Biomaterials

Julie Martin

Visiting Student Research Internship VSRP

Lifeng Huang

M. Sc. (2011)

Magdalene Eziashi

​Master Student (2nd year, Subgroup Blue-A)​​​

Maryam Alsufyani

Master Student (2nd year, Subgroup Green)​​​​

Matthew Fraser

​Visiting Student

Mohammad Mriden

Ms/Ph.D. Student

Nedah Alkattan

M. Sc. (2014)

Nida Nazeer Ahmed Khalfay

Research Interests: Target delivery systems, Nanoformulations, Nanoparticles, Nanoremediation

Rahaf Bashmail

Research Interests: Biomaterials, Nanomedicine

Ruba Alshaeri

Research Interests: Early detection of disease using nanoparticles, Drug delivery, Biomaterials

Shatha Al Abbadi

​Master Student (1st year)

Wanyu Huang

​M. Sc. (2012)

Widad Belhajjame

Visiting Student Research Internship VSRP

Research Group Staff

Carolina Mendoza

Lab Technician​​

Jing Tao

​Research Technician​