The Molecules of Life, Nature, and Industry

Heidi Vollmer-Snarr joined the Harvard faculty in 2019 as Director of Advanced Undergraduate Laboratories and Senior Preceptor in Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB). She oversees all of CCB's advanced laboratory classes, conducts research with undergraduate students, develops curricula, and teaches organic chemistry courses. In addition to her teaching and research, Dr. Vollmer-Snarr is a co-author of Organic Chemistry with Biological Topics and serves on the American Chemical Society (ACS) National Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs. She has also served on the National Institutes of Health study sections Small Business Sensory Technologies and Visual Systems. Prior to coming to Harvard, Dr. Vollmer-Snarr studied chemistry and German at the University of Utah (BS and BA 1997). She completed doctoral study at the University of Oxford (PhD 2000) and then worked at Columbia University as an NIH Postdoctoral Research Fellow. In 2002, Dr. Vollmer-Snarr joined the faculty of Brigham Young University as Assistant Professor of Chemistry. From 2013 to 2018, she was Lecturer of Chemistry at Stanford University.

Khaled Abdelazim (Mohamed K. Abd El-Rahman) has been a visiting scholar at the Whitesides Research Group, Harvard University, since 2017. His main research interests are the development of point-of-care analyzers and in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests, with a special focus on biomimetic recognition and designing electrochemical sensors for quantification of different biological targets and real-time monitoring of various chemo/biological events. In 2003, he graduated from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University, where he also received his MSc degree in Analytical Chemistry (2008). He received his PhD in 2011. In 2012 and 2016 he was a visiting scholar at the Buhlmann Group, School of Chemistry, University of Minnesota. He is currently Associate Professor in Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University. He has also served as an adjunct chemistry professor at the American University in Cairo.