Nima Ronaghi

Office: ES&T 2356
Email: nronaghi@gatech.edu

Favorite Sports Team? Liverpool FC
Future hobbies? Soccer, food, and exploring Atlanta!

Educational Background

B.S. Biochemistry; B.A. Chemistry, West Virginia University, 2016

Project

Carbohydrate Chain Extension & Fuel Synthesisr

I study the bioconversion of carbohydrates to higher value chemicals and fuels, using both heterogenous and homogenous catalysis.

Publications

Peng, H., Xi, Y., Ronaghi, N., Dong, B., Akhmedov, N. G., Shi, X. “Gold-Catalyzed Oxidative Cross-Coupling of Terminal Alkynes: Selective Synthesis of Unsymmetrical 1,3-Diynes” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 13174-13177
Maleki, H, Maurer, M., Ronaghi, N., Valentine, S. J. “Ion mobility, hydrogen/deuterium exchange, and isotope scrambling: Tools to aid compound identification in ‘omics mixtures.” Anal. Chem., 2017, 89, 6399–6407

January 2021-

Four new PhD students join the group! Anu Osibo will work on depolymerization catalysis and Yoseph Guta will study amine adsorbent stability. Both will be co-advised by Prof. Sievers. MinGyu Song will study DAC under unconventional conditions, and will be co-advised by Prof. Lively. Laura Proano will evaluate catalytic sorbents for CO2 capture and conversion in a single, intensified process.

December 2020-

The group welcomes the arrival of new postdoctoral fellow Pranjali Priyadarshini, who recently completed her PhD at the University of Illinois.

October 2020-

We bid farewell to postdoctoral fellow Dharam Kumar and visiting PhD student Wei Zhou. We welcome the arrival of new postdoctoral Fellow Gabriel Short, who recently completed his PhD in chemistry at the University of Florida.