Group

Principal investigator

Assist. Prof. Dr. Juha Siitonen
  • Assistant Professor, Aalto University, Finland, 2022–.
  • Lecturer, Rice University, USA, 2021–2022.
  • Part-time lecturer, Rice University, USA, 2020–2021.
  • Wiess teaching postdoctoral fellow, Kürti group, Rice University, USA, 2019–2020.
  • Ph.D. Pihko group, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2018.
  • M.Sc. Pihko group, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2014.

Postdoctoral researchers

Dr. Suvi Holmstedt
  • Method development and total synthesis based on renewable chiral pool starting materials.
  • University Teacher, Aalto University, Finland, 2022–.
  • Ph.D. Candeias group, Tampere University, Finland, 2021.
  • M.Sc. Pihko group, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, 2015.
Dr. Rajanish Pallerla
  • C–H Amination method development, total synthesis of alkaloids.
  • Ph.D. University of Jyväskylä, Pihko group, Finland, 2023.
  • M.Sc. National Institute of Technology, Sahoo group, Rourkela, India, 2018.

Doctoral researchers

M.Sc. Sini Irvankoski (2022–)
  • Physical organic chemistry driven method development, computational chemistry.
  • M.Sc. University of Jyväskylä, Pihko group, Finland, 2021.

Master’s researchers

B.Sc. Jouni Majaniemi (2023–)
  • Total synthesis of polyhydroxylated natural products.
B.Sc. Riku Holopainen (2023–)
B.Sc. Patrick Wiesenfeldt (2023–)
  • Total synthesis of polyhydroxylated natural products. Visiting from TU Dartmstadt.
B.Sc. Linh Tong (2024–)
  • Total synthesis of racemic alkaloids.

Undergraduate researchers

Aya Kähäri (2022–)
  • Computational conformational analysis of trimeric natural products.