Professor Ramesh Jasti was born in Concord, North Carolina (1st generation in the United States) and attended the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as an undergraduate.  At UNC, Prof. Jasti synthesized and characterized gold nanoparticles in the laboratories of Professor Royce Murray.  This early research experience sowed the seeds of his future interests in interdisciplinary research and nanoscience.  After graduation in 1998, Professor Jasti worked at a start-up pharmaceutical company for three years in the Research Triangle Park.  Having found great interest in organic synthesis, Prof. Jasti conducted his graduate education under the guidance of Professor Scott Rychnovsky at the University of California, Irvine.  Prof. Jasti’s graduate research led to the unraveling of numerous mechanistic aspects of the Prins cyclization reaction.  After obtaining his PhD in 2006, Prof. Jasti started as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Carolyn Bertozzi at The Molecular Foundry, a brand new nanoscience institute at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.  At Berkeley, he began to explore the concept of attacking problems in nanoscience utilizing organic synthesis as an enabling tool.  Having joined Boston University in the summer of 2009, this basic idea continues to be the overarching theme of the Jasti Research Group. Professor Jasti has been a recent recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, and Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, as well as a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award. In the summer of 2014, he moved to the University of Oregon where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and a member of the Materials Science Institute.

Ramesh’s chemical geneology can be viewed on Academictree.org.

Contact Information

Ramesh Jasti
Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials Science Institute, and Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact
1253 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1253

rjasti at uoregon dot edu

@profjasti

Office: 444 Willamette Hall
Lab: 310 Klamath Hall

 

Postdoctoral Applicants

Positions are available in the Jasti Laboratory for postdoctoral researchers.

Undergraduate Students

Interested undergraduate students should contact Professor Jasti by email.