Chris received his B.S in chemistry from George Washington University in 2020, where he worked under Dr. Adelina Voutchkova-Kostal on the valorization of biomass using supported catalysts. In the Fall of 2020, Chris joined the Ph.D. program at the University of Virginia and started working under Dr. Brent Gunnoe, where he is now working on catalytic olefin hydroarylation. 

Publications:

Ainembabazi, D. , Reid, C. , Chen, A. , An, N. ,  Kostal, J. , and Voutchkova-Kostal, A. (2020), Decarbonylative Olefination of Aldehydes to Alkenes Journal of the American Chemical Society. doi: 10.1021/jacs.9b12354

An, N. , Ainembabazi, D. , Reid, C. , Samudrala, K. , Wilson, K. , Lee, A. , and Voutchkova-Kostal, A. (2019), Microwave‐assisted decarbonylation of biomass‐derived aldehydes using Pd‐doped hydrotalcites. ChemSusChem. Accepted Author Manuscript. doi:10.1002/cssc.201901934