Alex Umanzor, Ph.D.

Beyond thrilled to have been accepted to the 2024 Institute for Future PUI Faculty at @LafCol !! Can’t wait to meet + work with my cohort & the Lafayette chem dept in April! Feeling blessed & one step closer to Prof. Umanzor ☺️ as always, thank you to my village @UMNChemistry 🫶🏼

@Elvis_Cao @imperialcollege Congrats, Elvis!!!

I’m recruiting PhD students to join my research group at @imperialcollege. Interested candidates please contact me (elvis.cao@imperial.ac.uk), following the requirements in the ad (early drafts for the statement of purpose are acceptable at this point). imperial.ac.uk/grantham/educa…

I highly encourage grad students and postdocs who wish to pursue a career at a primarily undergraduate institution to apply to the Institute for Future PUI Faculty at Lafayette College. It's a really great program! sites.lafayette.edu/puiinstitute/

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is excited to welcome emerging pedagogy scholar Jazmin Aguilar-Romero, who joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Teaching Professor on July 1, 2025. chemistry.ucla.edu/news/welcoming…

NYC is having an all-time run of hilarious mayors ngl

Congrats to our fearless leader @CortnieRoberts on being named a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow!! Incredibly well deserved; we’re excited to see where this support takes our science next ✨

Congrats to Prof. Osvaldo Gutierrez on receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE) from Pres. Biden! The highest honor for early-career scientists & engineers. bit.ly/4htM2l0 @UCLA_CSRC

Congrats to the team @Seongboi @Sal_K_3 @FeliciaYu000 and our collaborators from the Boyn group @UMNChemistry on this awesome contribution to free aryne chemistry ✨

I highly recommend this program to anyone interested in PUI/teaching-focused faculty careers! My 2 weeks at Lafayette were absolutely amazing & incredibly transformative for my prof. development; I’d be happy to answer any questions ppl have about the experience ☺️ Go Pards!! 🫶🏼

Team Phen had a ton of fun on our newest paper out now in @ACSCatalysis, using a combo of kinetics & data science to study the mechanism & origins of selectivity in a Pd-cat. aryne annulation! Congrats team!! 🎉 @ErinPlasek @DenmanBrylon @CortnieRoberts pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

@adii_dass Thank you Ady!!! 🫶🏼🫂🥰 hope all is well with you!!

@PinacolWhipped !!!!!!!!!!!!! congratulations Prof. Umanzor <3

Aww thanks Beza!! 🫶🏼 Been too busy to tweet about it but it’s been an amazing experience so far getting to teach my own class this semester!! ☺️ Prof. Umanzor came true earlier than I thought it would hehe

@gomobel Muchas gracias, Fer!! 🫶🏼🫂

@PinacolWhipped Enhorabuena!!! 🙌🏼

@parisobsessedd Awww thank you Allison!!! 🫶🏼 can’t believe that it’s already been 4 years since our class! I’m so lucky I got to work with such awesome students like you for my first semester of TAing ☺️ I hope grad school is treating you well!!

@PinacolWhipped Yay yay yay Alex!!! The absolute most deserved upgrade from TA to Prof

@ACS_DivBioChem @BezaTuga 😆 Oh ACS Biochem and ChemBio, you’re too kind 🤭🫶🏼

@BezaTuga @PinacolWhipped 👏 Get 👏 That 👏 Slay 👏 Diva 👏 Alex is an absolute champ.

Y’all see @PinacolWhipped doing big things?? #umnproud

@Devin_Eleven Ahhh thank you Devin!! 🫶🏼🫂 hope all is well back on the east coast!! ☺️

@PinacolWhipped AHHHHHH!!! This is so exciting!!

@soto_marcela89 Thank you, Diana!!!

@PinacolWhipped Congratulations Alex!!

@EreminaOE Aww thank you Olga you’re the sweetest 🫶🏼🫂 hope to see you soon in LA!! 🥰

@PinacolWhipped I wish I could enroll in your class, Prof. Umanzor!! 🪭📚

Another successful Canadian thanksgiving in the books! 🍗

Melissa Ramirez uses a cutting-edge approach that combines computations and experiments to develop catalytic reactions. She’s gearing up to start her own lab at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Read more in C&EN's 2024 Trailblazers issue: cen.acs.org/education/outr…

Tomorrow at 9:50 AM MDT, Bluebird Ballroom 2C! Join me for my talk, 'Unraveling the Multiplexing Capabilities of Raman Imaging with SERS Nanoparticles Towards Precision Medicine,' at #ACSFall2024 Thank you, #CASFutureLeaders program and @CASChemistry, for this opportunity! 💫