The Ge Group
People
Professor Haibo Ge, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Haibo Ge received his Ph.D. degree in Medicinal Chemistry from The University of Kansas in 2006, and then moved to The Scripps Research Institute for postdoctoral study. In 2009, he began his independent academic career at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, and relocated to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Texas Tech University in 2020. Research in his group is mainly focused on the development of novel methods for carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bond formation through transition metal catalyzed C-H functionalization.
Chong Liu, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Chong Liu got his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Next, he received his PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2021 (supervisor: Wanbin Zhang). Then, he joined in Professor Haibo Ge’s group in Texas Tech University for his postdoctoral research. His research interests focus on transition-metal catalyzed C−H functionalization and asymmetric synthesis methodology.
Mazen Elsaid
Graduate Student
Mazen was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. He's a graduate from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. He has started pursuing his PhD degree at Texas Tech in Fall 2019.
Maedeh Bagheri
Graduate Student
Maedeh (Bita) Bagheri holds two master's degrees in Physical Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. She later joined Professor Haibo Ge’s group at Texas Tech University as a PhD student in Organic Chemistry, where her research focuses on transition-metal-catalyzed C−H functionalization and asymmetric synthesis methodology. Before coming to the United States, Bita served as an elementary school teacher for 11 years.
Fahima Jahan Achal
Graduate Student
Fahima was born and raised up in Bangladesh and completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in biochemistry and molecular biology from Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh. She worked as Senior Executive at one US-FDA approved Pharmaceutical company, The ACME Laboratories Ltd., for nearly five years under Research and Development Division and worked as a volunteer in the "Laboratory of Preventive and Integrative Biomedicine", Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh for three years. Currently, she is working on the palladium-catalyzed C-H bond functionalization reactions.
Faith Herington
Undergraduate Student
Faith is a 3rd year undergraduate student at Texas Tech. Her major is Biology and she is pursuing a minor is Chemistry. She plans to go to medical school in Fall 2024. Faith was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and hopes to pursue a career as a Medical Doctor.
Alana Mangawang
Undergraduate Student
Alana was born in Waco, TX and she is currently an undergraduate student at TTU majoring in biochemistry. She is currently pursuing a pre-med path and hopes to one day attend medical school and become a physician. Alana lives in Houston right now and she has started attending TTU in 2021.
Dayra Figueroa
Undergraduate Student
Dayra is an undergraduate student pursuing a biochemistry degree. Post graduation, she hopes to attend medical school and become a physician. Dayra is from Abilene, TX, and began attending TTU in 2022.
Austin Thomas
Undergraduate Student
Austin Thomas is from Keller TX and started to attend Texas Tech in 2022. He is a biology major with a minor in chemistry and health professions. After graduating Austin has aspirations of becoming a cardiothoracic surgeon.
Pablo Perez
Undergraduate Student
Pablo is currently an undergraduate freshman at Texas Tech, born in Dimmitt, TX. He is currently pursuing a major in Chemistry along with a minor in Math. He plans to go to graduate school for chemistry after graduation.
