Group Members

B.Sc.H., Queen’s University
Ph.D., Queen’s University (R. P. Lemieux)
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (J. S. Moore)

Scott was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, carrying out undergraduate research in the labs of Victor Snieckus and Bob Lemieux. He stayed with Bob at Queen’s to complete his Ph.D. in 2005, investigating chirality transfer in smectic liquid crystals. Scott then took a postdoctoral position at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign with Jeff Moore, working on the self-assembly of two-dimensional covalent ladders and grids. He joined the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Miami University in August 2007 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2013 and Professor in 2016. From 2018–2021, Scott was the Volwiler Distinguished Research Professor in Chemistry. [Scott’s full CV]

B. Pharm., East West University

B.S., University of Dayton

Co-supervised by Dr. Dominik Konkolewicz

B.Sc. (Hons.), University of Kelaniya

• Programmable hydrogels by combining persistent and transient dynamic bonds. ChemRxiv
• Autonomous changes in polymer materials driven by chemical fuels. ChemSystemsChem 2025, 7, e202400090
• Controlling carbodiimide-driven reaction networks through the reversible formation of pyridine adducts. Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 12876–12879
• Carbodiimide-driven toughening of interpenetrated polymer networks. Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202400843
• Chemically fueled reinforcement of polymer hydrogels. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 5553–5560
• Tailoring lifetimes and properties of carbodiimide-fueled covalently crosslinked polymer networks. Macromolecules 2021, 54, 9860–9867

B.Sc., University of Dhaka
M.Sc., University of Dhaka

B.Sc., Tribhuvan University
M.Sc., Tribhuvan University

• Molecular springs in dynamic covalent polymer networks. Macromolecules 2025, 58, 12346–12352
• Mechanisms of chiral induction to foldamer backbones. Chem.—Eur. J. 2025, 31, e02433

B.Sc., Jahangirnagar University
M.Sc., Jahangirnagar University

Yasir was born and brought up in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, home to the world’s longest natural sea beach. He has worked as a Lecturer in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and as a Molecular Biologist, where he helped establish and operate RT-PCR–based SARS-CoV-2 testing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

B.S., Peking University

• Distinct folding behavior of ortho-phenylenes and 2,3-pyrazinylenes. J. Org. Chem. 2025, 90, 16025–16031