Group Members - Alabugin Group at FSU

Principal Investigator

Igor Alabugin, Professor

Ph.D.: Moscow State University, 1995

Postdoc: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1996-2000

Faculty: Florida State University, 2000-current

Full CV

Recent Awards

Southern Chemist Award (2023)
George Gamow Award (2022)
Distinguished Research Professor, FSU (2022)
Florida Award, Florida Section of ACS (2022)
Gilead Lectureship (University of Ottawa) (2022)

Markovnikov Medal, 2021
Honorary Professorship (St. Petersburg State University), 2021
American Chemical Society A. C. Cope Scholar Award, 2021
A Top Reviewer for RSC Chemical Science, 2019, 2020
A Top Reviewer for Angewandte Chemie, 2019, 2020
The 2019 Favorsky Lecturer (St. Petersburg State University), 2019
Fulbright Scholar Award - Distinguished Chair (UK), 2018
A Top Reviewer for RSC Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2018
A Top Reviewer for RSC Chemical Science, 2018
A Top Reviewer for Angewandte Chemie, 2018
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2017
Sentinels of Science Award (top 10 peer-reviewers in Chemical Sciences), 2016-20
FSU Cottrell Professorship, 2015
Phi Beta Kappa Excellence in Teaching Award (given once a year to one FSU professor by the US oldest academic honors society), 2013
FSU Inaugural Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, 2013
'Visitas de Profesores Distinguidos' Mexican Academy of Sciences Award, 2012
FSU Research Foundation GAP Award, 2011
FSU Undergraduate Advising Award, 2010
FSU Innovator Award, 2007- 2017
FSU Developing Scholar Award, 2008
FSU Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2007
Inter-American Photochemical Society Young Investigator Award, 2005
3M Untenured Faculty Award, 2003, 2004
Florida State University First Year Assistant Professor Award, 2001
NATO Science Fellowship, 1996
Morozov Fellowship (top 0.5% of MSU students), 1988-1991

Graduate Students

Beauty K. Chabuka

Research Focus: Computation - Electron and hole upconversion. Beauty received her combined B.Sc/M.Sc degree in chemistry from Idaho State University. Her research involves the use of computational methods to explore organic reactions.

Michael Commodore

Research Focus: Study of the properties of organic magnetic materials. Michael graduated with a B.Sc in chemistry from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. In 2021, he joined Professor Igor V. Alabugin's laboratory at Florida State University to pursue a Ph.D. His research focuses on the design, synthesis, and study of the properties of organic magnetic materials (functionalized carbon-rich materials).

Favour Danladi Makurvet

Research Focus: Synthesis of porous graphene. Favour graduated with a B.Sc in chemistry from Kaduna State University, Nigeria, in 2016. He completed a Master's program in Green and Sustainable Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, England, in 2020. In 2021, he joined Professor Alabugin's laboratory at Florida State University, where he works on the design, development, and application of synthetic strategies to access chemical precursors for the bottom-up synthesis of porous graphene

Kimberley Christopher

Research Focus: Computation - applications. Kimberley completed her B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biology from Lakehead University in 2020. Her undergraduate research involved using bioinformatics to investigate genetic linkage and protein-protein interactions as well as synthesizing ligands for diagnostic imaging. Currently, she uses computational methods to address fundamental problems in physical organic chemistry with applications in medicinal, material, and energy sciences.

Fabiola Rivera

Research Focus: Synthesis of porous graphene. Fabiola earned her B.Sc in chemistry from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in 2023. She joined Dr. Alabugin's laboratory at Florida State University in 2024 to pursue a PhD in chemistry. Currently, she is working on the synthesis of chemical precursors for the bottom-up synthesis of porous graphene.

Isaac Akhigbe

Research Focus: Study of the properties of Nitrogen dope organic materials.Isaac graduated with a B.Sc chemistry (2015) from Ambrose Alli University and completed a Master's program in chemistry (2020) at the University of Benin, Nigeria. In 2024, he joined Professor Igor V. Alabugin's laboratory at Florida State University to pursue a Ph.D. His research focuses on the design, synthesis, and study of the properties of Nitrogen dope organic materials.