Nawaporn Vinayavekhin

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Associate Professor Dr. Nawaporn Vinayavekhin

  • Room 1527/5 Mahamakut Building, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Road, Patumwan Bangkok 10330, THAILAND
  • 02-2187738
Research Summary

Education

  • [2012] Ph.D., Harvard University
  • [2008] M.S., Harvard University
  • [2006] B.S., University of Chicago

Work Experiences

  • [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

Current Research Topics

  • 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

Research Themes

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

Scholarship and Awards

  • [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

Publications

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