Nawaporn Vinayavekhin

[2024 - present] Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
[2024 - present] Deputy Director of Scientific and Technological Research Equipment Center (STREC), Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
[2017 - 2024] Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
[2012 - 2017] Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
[2007 - 2012] Research Assistant under Prof. Alan Saghatelian, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
[2007] Teaching Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
[2006] Research Assistant under Prof. Richard F. Jordan, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
[2005 - 2006] Chemistry Tutor, College, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Chemical biology
Discovery of biologically-active or novel small-molecule metabolites through liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS)-based untargeted metabolomics
Natural product discovery
Microbial biotransformation
Biocatalysis
Plant-microbe and microbe-microbe interaction
Microbial plant pathogen
Biocontrol bacteria
Microbial environmental stress response

Microbial or enzymatic biotransformation of agricultural and industrial residues into value-added products

Combating microbial plant pathogens using natural products from rhizospheric microbe-microbe interactions

[2016] Outstanding New Researcher Award in Biological Sciences, the Science Forum
[2006] Francis E. Knock Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement in Chemistry
[2005] Elected member of Sigma Xi (the scientific research society)
[2005] Recipient of Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE) award through DAAD, Munich, Germany
[2001] DPST Scholarship Award, Thailand (from B.S. to Ph.D.)
[2000] Silver Medal Prize at 32nd International Chemistry Olympiad, Copenhagen, Denmark