Jazmin Aguilar-Romero

Jazmin was born and raised in beautiful Los Angeles, CA. She attended Cornell University where she worked in the lab of Professor Frank Schroeder to discover and synthesize antifungal natural products produced by the nematode Pristionchus pacificus. After graduating, Jazmin moved to conduct her PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign working with Professor Steve Zimmerman on acid-amplifying polymers for applications in drug delivery and degradable materials. She left Illinois for one summer to work at Hope College in Holland, MI as a visiting graduate student in the lab of Professor Jeffrey Johnson. There, she led a project focusing on developing new directing groups for a rhodium-catalyzed decarbonylation reaction. After finishing her PhD, Jazmin joined the Lamb lab as a CSP Postdoctoral Fellow and will be working on developing sustainable polyurethane materials. Outside of research, Jazmin enjoys dancing, swimming, spending time with her cat, and eating good food.