Krishna Pandey
6th Year Graduate Student
Krishna Pandey is from the small town Tamghas, Gulmi located in western part of Nepal. He has completed his B.S in Chemistry and Microbiology major from Tri-Chandra college, Kathmandu, Nepal in 2012. Then he earned MS in Organic Chemistry from central department of chemistry under Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal in 2015. In Fall 2018, Krishna joined Dr. Plunkett’s research group in chemistry and biochemistry department at SIUC and started working on the synthesis and development of small organic molecules inhibitors that could be potential drug like candidates to alter the metabolic activities of Chlamydia trachomatis. Currently, he is working on investigating the synthetic scope, reversibility, and dynamic nature of bonding on hypervalent iodine-based macrocycles and molecular cages. Apart from the academia, he is interested on reading books, playing football and listening music.
