Elya Kandahari
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Undergraduate Student

Elya began her undergraduate study early on by enrolling full time at Solano Community College while in high school. In 2019, she graduated with three Associate of Arts degrees and her high school diploma. In the following summer, Elya conducted studies on the use of deep eutectic solvents for redox flow battery applications and chemical education in the laboratories of Dr. John C. Goeltz at the California State University, Monterey Bay. Elya is currently an undergraduate chemistry major at UC Davis. Her research in the Olson Lab focuses on natural product total synthesis.

Awards

2020 UC Davis Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship
2020 ACS Hach Land Grant Undergraduate Scholarship
2020 Maureen Bellettini Memorial Book Award
2020-2021 MURPPS Research Scholar
2021 Francesca Miller Undergraduate Research Fellowship
2021 Roche Undergraduate Award
2021 NSF CSOE/VURP Student at The California Institute of Technology
2021 UC Davis Provost’s Undergraduate Fellowship

Publications

Kandahari, E.; Smith, E. J.; Goeltz, J. C. Beyond the Textbook: Introducing Undergraduates to Practical Electrochemistry. J. Chem. Ed., 202, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c00155

Gnaim, S.; Bauer, A.; Zhang, H.-J.; Chen, L.; Gannet, C.; Malapit, C. A.; Hill, D.; Vogt, D.; Tang, Tianhua, T.; Daley, R.; Hao, W.; Quertenmont, M.; Beck, W. D.; Kandahari, E.; Vantourout, J. C.; Echeverria, P.-G.; Abruna, H.; Blackmond, D.; Minteer, S.; Reisman, S.; Sigman, M. S.; Baran, P. S. Cobalt-Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Atom Transfer for Functionalization of Unsaturated C-C Bonds. ChemRxiv, Preprint 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.33774/chemrxiv-2021-b34zl

Email: ekandahari@ucdavis.edu
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/elya-kandahari
Twitter: @Elya_Kandahari