Principal Investigator
Tatyana G. Karabencheva-Christova
Associate Professor of ChemistryTatyana obtained a Ph.D. in computational chemistry from Bristol University, United Kingdom, and was awarded a Marie Curie International Career Development Fellowship for Stanford University. Before joining Michigan Tech, Tatyana was an Associate Professor at Northumbria University in Newcastle, United Kingdom. Tatyana’s research interests focus on the computational investigation of metalloenzymes.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
Fathima Hameed C
Ph.D. StudentMSc, Chemistry, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Calicut, India BSc, Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Anandhu Krishnan
Ph.D. StudentMSc, Analytical Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India BSc, Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Sreerag Melayikandy
Ph.D. StudentMSc, Chemistry, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, India. BSc, Chemistry, Calicut University, India
Kritika Kritika
Ph.D. StudentMSc, Chemistry, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India
Undergraduate Research Students
Connor Donahue
Undergraduate
Jacob Arp
UndergraduateAlumni
Sodiq O. Waheed
Research Advisor, Structure-Based Drug DesignLilly Corporate Center Indianapolis, Indiana 46285 USA
Brendan Kaski
Undergraduate, Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology
Ann Varghese
Postdoctoral Researcher, National Center for Toxicological Research, FDA, Jefferson, AR
Ciara LaRouche
Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering
Bella DiCastri
Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering
Emerald Mehler
UNDERGRADUATE, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Parker Harstad
UNDERGRADUATE, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING James Bode
UNDERGRADUATE, CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
Rebecca Veenstra
UNDERGRADUATE, CHEMISTRY
Koteswararao Gorantla
Assistant Professor, School of Advanced Sciences, VIT-AP University, India
Ben Diegel
Undergraduate
Meredith Paik
Undergraduate, Chemistry Mary Bartelli
Houghton High School, WBL participant, 2025
Principal Investigator
Tatyana G. Karabencheva-Christova
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Tatyana obtained Ph.D. in computational chemistry from Bristol University, United Kingdom, and was awarded a Marie Curie International Career Development Fellowship for Stanford University. Before joining Michigan Tech, Tatyana was an Associate Professor at Northumbria University in Newcastle, United Kingdom. Tatyana’s research interests focus on the computational investigation of metalloenzymes.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Koteswararao Gorantla
PhD, Computational Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad, India
Graduate students
Ann Varghese
BSc, Chemistry, Calicut University, India
MSc, Applied Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Fathima Hameed C
BSc, Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
MSc, Chemistry, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Calicut, India
Anandhu Krishnan
BSc, Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
MSc, Analytical Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi University, India
Sreerag Melayikandy
BSc, Chemistry, Calicut University, India
MSc, Chemistry, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, India
Undergraduate research students
Bella DiCastri
Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering
Brendan Kaski
Undergraduate, Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology
Ciara LaRouche
Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering
Meredith Paik
Undergraduate, Chemistry
Alumni
Sodiq O. Waheed
Research Advisor, Structure-Based Drug Design
Lilly Corporate Center Indianapolis, Indiana 46285 USA