We are hiring! We seek to add 3 graduate students and 1 or 2 postdocs to the team in academic year 2020-2021.
Postdocs with experience in chemical biology, natural products, or protein computational design are preferred.
Interested postdoc candidates should email a brief cover letter and CV to Aditya.

Aditya Kunjapur

Principal Investigator
2019     Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware
2018     Post-Doc, Genetics, Harvard Medical School (Advisor: George Church)
2015     PhD, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Advisor: Kristala Prather)
2010     BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas

Aditya is from Houston, Texas, and interned for 5 summers with Shell and ExxonMobil during his undergraduate years. His desire to develop renewable liquid transportation fuel alternatives sparked his interest in biomolecular engineering research. He arrives in lab every day excited to discover what new product can be manufactured using biology instead of petroleum. When outside of lab, Aditya enjoys playing board games, watching basketball/football, and traveling.

Recent Awards
2020 - American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 35 Under 35
2019 - Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) Fellow 

Graduate Students

Neil Butler

NSF GRFP Honorable Mention 
​B.S., Penn State University
ndb(at)udel(dot)edu

Sabyasachi Sen

B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
sen(at)udel(dot)edu
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Morgan Sulzbach

NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
​B.S., University of Maryland - College Park
msulzbac(at)udel(dot)edu

Michaela Jones

NIH CBI Fellow, ​NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
B.S., Cornell University
majones(at)udel(dot)edu

Soumili Chattopadhyay

M.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
B.Tech, MAKAUT, West Bengal
soumili(at)udel(dot)edu

Undergraduate Students

Ryan Buchser

Natalie Fuhr

Sean Wirt

Past Mentees: (UG = Undergrad / G = Grad / T = Technician / P = Post-Doc)


Before Delaware:
Emily Niu - 2018 - UG - MIT
Aditya Jog - 2018 - UG - MIT
Lucas Brown - 2018 - T - Harvard Medical School
Karen Noguera - 2017-2018 - T - Harvard Medical School
Peter Smith - 2017-2018 - G - Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Devon Stork - 2016-2018 - G - Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Jason Hyun - 2014-2015 - UG - Then: MIT - After: Manus Biosciences
Asmawaw Wassie - 2013 - UG - Then: MIT - After: MIT Biological Engineering PhD
Nikita Khlystov - 2012-2014 - UG - Then: MIT - After: Stanford Chemical Engineering PhD
Spencer Wenck - 2012-2013 - UG - Then: MIT - After: Boston Consulting Group
Bernardo Cervantes - 2012 - UG - Then: Berkeley - After: MIT Microbiology PhD

Delaware January 2019 Team
L to R: Aditya Kunjapur, Sean Wirt, Natalie Fuhr, Morgan Sulzbach, Ryan Buchser, Sunny Sen, and Neil Butler.

HMS Summer 2018 Team
L to R: Karen Noguera, Devon Stork, Aditya Jog, Lucas Brown, Emily Niu, and Aditya Kunjapur.

Selected Lab Social Events

2020

Pre-COVID-19

Post-COVID-19

2019