Aisha Naziran Bismillah

Aisha is a supramolecular and physical organic chemist with training in organic synthesis, advanced NMR spectroscopy, superacidic methodology, as well as host-guest chemistry. She is currently a Ph.D. student at Durham University working with Dr. Paul McGonigal investigating fluxional carbon cages and their shapeshifting properties. Over the course of her Ph.D., she has accrued numerous awards, grants and scholarships, including a competitive RSC Researcher Mobility Grant allowing her to work with Prof. G.K. Surya Prakash at the University of Southern California. Aisha has recently been awarded a prestigious US-UK Fulbright Scholarship to work as a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Ivan Aprahamian's research group at Dartmouth College. Her research will focus on hydrazone switch-based negative feedback loops.