Derek J. Schipper
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair - Tier 2 - Organic Material Synthesis
NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Organic Materials, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor Timothy Swager, 2011-2013
PhD, Organic Chemistry, University of Ottawa, Professors Keith Fagnou and André Beauchemin, 2006-2011
BSc, Honours Chemistry, University of Prince Edward Island, 2002-2006
Office: C2 260B
Email: dschipper@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4567 x39524
Graduate Students
Jianan Wang (PhD Candidate)
BSc. University of Toronto, 2017
Start Date: Fall 2017
Office: C2 262 x36808
Junhao (Gigi) Hu (PhD Candidate)
BSc. University of Waterloo, 2018
Start Date: Spring 2021
Office: C2 262 x36808
Eduarda Omena (MSc Candidate)
BSc. Universidade Federal De Alagoas, 2017
MSc. Universidade Federal De Santa Catarina, 2019
Start Date: Winter 2023
Office: C2 262 x36808
Riley Woods (MSc Candidate)
BSc. University of Waterloo, 2023
Start Date: Fall 2023
Office: C2 262 x36808
Mila Abaeva (PhD Candidate)
BSc. University of Waterloo, 2020
Start Date: Fall 2020
Office: C2 262 x36808
Mark Brutto (MSc Candidate)
BSc. University of Waterloo, 2022
Start Date: Fall 2022
Office: C2 262 x36808
Ryan Scott (MSc Candidate)
BSc. University of Waterloo, 2023
Start Date: Fall 2023
Office: C2 262 x36808
Undergraduate Students
Tanzim Chowdhury CHEM 494, Winter 2024
Graduates and Former PDFs
Boris Nazareth MSc., Winter 2023
Javan Buratynski MSc., Winter 2023
Dr. Rafael Mirabal PhD., Spring 2021
Dr. Geoffrey Sinclair PhD., Fall 2020
Dr. Monika Snowdon PhD., Fall 2020
Sarah Srokosz MSc., Summer 2020
Wayne Wang MSc., Spring 2020
Dr. Parisa Ghods PDF, Winter 2020
Dr. Serxho Selmani PhD., Fall 2019
Sara Abuadas MSc., Spring 2019
Rob Claridge MSc., Spring 2018
Luke Vanderzwet MSc., Winter 2017
Tianyu Yang MSc., Summer 2016
Dr. Mike Emmett PDF, Fall 2015
Other Former Members
Tess Fortier - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2023 - Winter 2024
Jasmin Nazarali - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2023 - Winter 2024
Mingqing (Cassie) Song - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2023 - Winter 2024
Saruba Srirajah - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Spring 2023 - Fall 2023
Sumeet Kumar Das - MITACS, Spring 2023
Dion Grobe - NSERC USRA, Winter 2023
Ryan Scott - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023
Scott McNeil - Co-op Student, Winter 2020; Co-op Student, Fall 2020; Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2022 - Winter 2023
Yutong Han - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Spring 2022 - Fall 2022
Guocheng Li - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Spring 2022 - Fall 2022
Zhaoxiang Liu - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022
Lukas Glofcheskie - NSERC USRA, Winter 2019; NSERC USRA, Winter 2021; NSERC USRA, Spring 2021; Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2021 - Winter 2022
Jasmin Nazarali - Co-op Student, Winter 2021
Emily Verkuil - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2020 - Winter 2021
Giulia Sellitto - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2020 - Winter 2021
Jack Buchok - Co-op Student, Summer 2019; Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2020 - Winter 2021
Daniel Boada - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2019 - Winter 2020
Joshua Oates - Newcastle University Exchange Student, Fall 2019 - Winter 2020
Ruihao Li - MITACS, Summer 2019
Chris Hopkins - Volunteer, Summer 2019
Andrew Kukor - NSERC USRA, Summer 2016; Co-op Student, Winter 2016; Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019; NSERC USRA, Spring 2019
Shirley Wang - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019
Fabio Cuzzucoli - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019
Jianyu Zhai - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2018 - Winter 2019
Nooran AbuMazen - NSERC USRA, Fall 2018
Cui Ting (Chloe) Zhao - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Summer 2018 - Fall 2018
Peter Pham - NSERC USRA, Summer 2018
Bill Guo - Volunteer, Fall 2017 - Summer 2018
Lubna Diwan - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2017 - Winter 2018
Iris Chan - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2017 - Winter 2018
George Petrovski - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Summer 2017 - Fall 2017
David Symons - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Summer 2017 - Fall 2017
Meixing (May) Cheng - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Winter 2017 - Summer 2017
Zaile (Felix) Zhuang - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Winter 2017 - Summer 2017
Amelia Caza - Undergraduate Co-op Student, Winter 2017
Kevin Karl Imperial - Undergraduate Co-op Student, Winter 2017
Ryan Moreira - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2016 - Winter 2017
Gillian Hawes - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2016 - Winter 2017
Junhao (Gigi) Hu - Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2016
Yue (Melody) Shen - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Winter 2016 - Summer 2016
Alma Maqbool - Undergraduate Co-op Student, Winter 2016
Wei (Jacky) Chen - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Fall 2015 - Winter 2016
Wei Li - Undergraduate Honours Thesis, Spring 2015 - Fall 2015
Matt Diamandas - Undergraduate Co-op Student, Winter 2015
Kevin Ma - Undergraduate Co-op Student, Winter 2015
Chris Baigent - Undergraduate Co-op Student, Winter and Fall 2014
Matt Kim - Undergraduate Volunteer, Summer 2014 and Fall 2014
Alina Bielak - Undergraduate Co-op Student, Summer 2014
Geoff DeVisser - Undergraduate Co-op Student, Summer 2014
Sushant Bhasin - Undergraduate Co-op Student, Winter 2014
Photo Archives
Christmas Curling 2018
Rob's Defense
Christmas 2017
Escape Room
Tianyu's Defense
Group Picture Winter 2016
Christmas 2015
Group Picture Summer 2015
Group Picture Winter 2015
Group Picture Summer 2014
