Ramesh Jasti's Biography

Ramesh Jasti, Associate Professor, Organic, Inorganic, Materials, and Supramolecular Chemistry, University of Oregon

Ramesh Jasti was born in Concord, North Carolina, in 1975. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an undergraduate, working under Professor Royce Murray. He conducted his graduate education under the guidance of Professor Scott Rychnovsky at the University of California, Irvine, where his research unraveled numerous mechanistic aspects of the Prins cyclization reaction. After obtaining his Ph.D. in 2006, he started as a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Professor Carolyn Bertozzi, attacking problems in nanoscience utilizing organic synthesis as an enabling tool. He began as an Assistant Professor at Boston University in 2009 and moved to the University of Oregon as an Associate Professor in 2014. Representative awards include the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.