Principle Investigator

Michael D. Schulz

Associate Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Antiviral materials, metal extraction, catalyst design, treatment of bacterial infections with toxin-binding compounds, novel polymer synthesis approaches, and chemotherapeutic capture agents.

mdschulz@vt.edu | Office: 313-D Davidson Hall | CV | Google Scholar

Graduate Students

Jonathan Mase

B.S. Biochemistry – Bowling Green State University

7th Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

Research Interests: Synthesis of antiviral polymer therapeutics.
Email: jdmase1991@vt.edu

Zhen Shi

B.S. Polymer Science and Engineering– Shenzhen University

M.S. Polymer Science– The University of Akron

5th Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

Research Interests: Antiviral Polymers

Email: szhen@vt.edu

Gillian Su

B.S. Chemistry- SUNY Binghamton University

5th Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

Research Interests: Development of materials for the capture of chemotherapy drugs

Email: gillians@vt.edu

Amira Mohammed

Pharm.D. – Helwan University

M.S Analytical Chemistry – Zagazig University

4th year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

Research Interests: Ring-opening Metathesis using hyperbranched polymers

Lane Kennedy

B.S Chemistry – Western Carolina University

M.S Chemistry – Western Carolina University

4th year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

Research Interests: Polyesters

Christopher C. Armstrong

B.S. Chemistry: University of New Mexico
4th Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

Research Interests: Metal chelating polymers.

Cassell McMillian

B.S. Biochemistry– Virginia Tech

3rd Year Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

Tyler K. Bridges

B.S. Earth Sciences – Paleontology– Montana State University

M.S. Zoology– North Carolina State University

3rd Year Ph.D. Student in Macromolecular Science and Engineering

Muhammad Ali

B.S Chemistry – Kohat University of Sciences & Technology (KUST), Pakistan

M.S Chemistry – National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Pakistan

2nd year Ph.D. Student in Chemistry

Research Interests: Metal Chelating Polymers

Email: muhammad23@vt.edu

Nishat Tamanna Adiba

B.S Applied Chemistry & Chemical Engineering – University of Dhaka

M.S Applied Chemistry & Chemical Engineering – University of Dhaka

2nd year Ph.D. Student in Chemistry

Research Interests: Polymer synthesis for metal extraction

Email: nishattadiba@vt.edu

Destiny Mathews

2nd year Ph.D. Student in Chemistry

Research Interests: Metal-polymer interactions

Undergraduate Students

Joey Rubino

Mihika Khubchandani

Lily Webb

Rhone Jenkins

Joshua Angulo