The Boss

Marco Bonizzoni, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Distinguished Teaching Fellow
Director of Graduate Recruiting and Admissions
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Postdoctoral Researchers

Only externally funded postdoctoral applications can be considered at this time. Please send Dr. Bonizzoni your cover letter, CV, and publication list. I would also be glad to work with applicants in support of their funding applications to external agencies.

Graduate Students

Xiyuan Yao
B.S., Nankai University (2017)
Xiyuan started in the group in Spring 2018 on a project studying the thermodynamics of complexation of fatty acids and similar hydrophobic materials in carbohydrates (particularly starches) and other carbohydrate-based supramolecular receptors. Her work, in collaboration with Dr. Lingyan Kong in the Department of Human Nutrition at UA, will focus first on the determination of thermodynamic parameters for these interactions through isothermal titration calorimetry. We also plan to use these receptors to construct fingerprinting arrays for analytes of interest in nutrition science.
Flor Lozada Santiago
B.S., Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico (2018)
Flor was an REU student in our group in summer 2017. She then went back to PR to finish her degree, and graduated this May 2018 summa cum laude. She was also selected to receive the John Will Harris Medal, her alma mater's highest academic recognition. Flor started her graduate studies at UA in summer 2018. She is working in our group on the development of redox-based fingerprinting chemical sensors.
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We are always looking for motivated graduate students to join our group! Please contact Dr. Bonizzoni for further information.

Undergraduate Students

Emma Sower
BCh in Chemistry and BS in Mathematics - expected graduation: Spring 2025
Emma started in the group in Spring 2022. She will work in collaboration with Dale Wilger's group at Samford University to use a series of Wilger's indenones for the analytical detection of second- and third-row transition metals at trace levels using optical spectroscopy.
Are you interested in a research experience in our lab? We are always looking for motivated undergraduates to join our group. Please contact Dr. Bonizzoni for further information.

Former Group Members

  • Yichun Yuan (MS student, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022); currently PhD student at Case Western Reserve University
  • Dr. Yifei Xu (grad. student, Spring 2016 - Summer 2021); currently Senior Quality Assurance Chemist at API manufacturer in Shanghai, China
  • Miguel Díaz (undergrad. researcher, Summer 2019 - Spring 2021); currently on the engineering staff at Lockheed-Martin
  • Dr. Michael Ihde (grad. student, Fall 2015 - Spring 2021); currently Assistant Professor at Williams College (Williamstown, MA)
  • Dr. Xiaoli Liang (grad. student, Fall 2014 - Summer 2019); currently a postdoc at the University of Western Ontario
  • Gabrielle Covey (undergrad. researcher, Fall 2017 - Spring 2019); worked at Huntsman Chemical; currently at TA Instruments (thermal analysis)
  • Dr. Nicholas J. White (grad. student, Spring 2014 - Fall 2018); currently employed at WuXi AppTec
  • Rezoanul Islam (grad. student, Fall 2017 - Spring 2018); currently in the PhD program at Auburn University
  • Addison Iszler (undergrad. researcher, Spring 2017 - Spring 2018; recipient of UA's Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award)
  • Madyson Brown (undergrad. researcher, Fall 2016 - Spring 2018)
  • Flor Lozada Santiago (visiting undergraduate researcher from Puerto Rico, REU program); re-joined us in fall 2018 as a graduate student!
  • Dr. Michele Invernici (visiting grad. student, Jun. - Dec. 2016); graduated from Università di Pavia, Italy; now postdoc at CERM (Florence, Italy)
  • Cara F. Pridmore (undergrad. researcher, Summer 2016 - Spring 2017); in the Biomedical Sciences graduate program at UMC
  • Jake Brockwell (undergrad. researcher, Spring 2015 - Fall 2016); currently employed at Ascend Performance Materials as fuel engineer
  • Dr. Alie Marie Mallet Busenlehner (grad. student, Dec. 2010 - Dec. 2015); currently employed at VWR and adjunct at Gwinnett Technical College
  • Dr. Ashley Jolly Steelman (grad. student, Dec. 2010 - July 2015); currently Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Kentucky
  • Kyle Glisson (undergrad. researcher, Summer 2014 - Fall 2015; recipient of UA's Randall Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award)
  • Tu Minh Vo (undergrad. researcher, Spring 2015 - Fall 2015)
  • Katheryn Adam (undergrad. researcher, Fall 2013 - Spring 2015)
  • Madison Beck (undergrad. researcher, Fall 2014 - Spring 2015); currently Associate Scientist at Procter & Gamble (P&G)
  • Dr. Yuanli Liu (postdoc, Jan. 2013 - Oct. 2014); now Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Guilin University of Technology (China)
  • James (J.T.) Vegrzyn (undergrad. researcher, Fall 2014)
  • Allison Montgomery (undergrad. researcher, Fall 2013 - Spring 2014); went on to medical school at UAB
  • Catherine Cofer (undergrad. researcher, Fall 2013 - Spring 2014); currently working as Senior Project Lead, Packaging at Chick-fil-A
  • C. Grace Nichols (undergrad. researcher, Summer 2012 - Spring 2013); working as a Registered Nurse in cardiac ICU
  • David Zagardo (undergrad. researcher, Summer 2012)
  • Keegan McNally (undergrad. researcher, Fall 2011 - Spring 2012); went on to UCF College of Medicine
  • Madeleine Angles (undergrad. researcher, Fall 2010 - Spring 2011); MBA from UAH (2014); working as Training Chemist at PAE