Principal Investigator
Bala Ramjee, Ph.D.
bramjee@odu.edu
Bala Ramjee graduated with a B.Sc. (Chemistry) from Loyola College, Madras, India in 1994. He joined the integrated Ph.D. program in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India from where he obtained his M.S. (Chemical Sciences) in 1997 and Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry) in 2001 under the supervision of Prof. Uday Maitra.
He was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratories of Prof. Alexander Wei (Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, IN) and Prof. Royce W. Murray (Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC) before joining the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in Old Dominion University as an Assistant Professor in August 2007.
Graduate Students
Sangbum Han
Amanda Skinner
Postdoctoral Researcher
Kalpana Mahadevan
Undergraduate Researcher
Roland New
GROUP PHOTOS
SUMMER 2013
SEPTEMBER 2012
Back row (L to R): Bala Ramjee, Justin Spute and Christopher Gammarano. Front row (L to R): Kalpana Mahadevan, Thu Nguyen and Sangbum Han.
MAY 2011
Back row (L to R): Bala Ramjee, Greye Shane, Christian Chamberlayne and Sangbum Han. Front row (L to R): John Bedford, Vara Prasad Sheela, Srujana Prayakarao, and Kalpana Mahadevan.
SUMMER 2009
Back row (L to R): Bala Ramjee, Zaharoula Kalaitzis and Vara Prasad Sheela. Front row (L to R): Houman Chegini, April Byars, and Srujana Prayakarao.
Alumni
Graduate Students
Zaharoula "Joy" Kalaitzis, MS, December 2009. Thesis title: Solvent dependent morphologies in thiol-ene photopolymerization: A facile route to synthesis of resorcinarene nanocapsules.
Vara Prasad Sheela, MS, August 2012. Thesis title: Multidentate resorcinarene surfactants for the phase transfer of metal nanoparticles and nanodiamonds: Applications in catalysis and diamond film growth.
Srujana Prayakarao, MS, December 2012.
Christopher Gammarano, MS May 2013.
Justin Spute, MS May 2015.
Undergraduate and High School Students
April Byars - Pursued a Pharmacy degree in UNC, Chapel Hill.
John Bedford - Currently pursuing a PhD in ODU.
Joseph Brown
Tadeo O'Brien
Greye Shane
Courtney Johnston
Christian Chamberlayne (high school student) - Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Stanford University.
