Biography

Raheleh Ravanfar joined Texas Tech University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in August 2023. She served as a postdoctoral scholar research associate in the Harry B. Gray Research Group at the California Institute of Technology from 2020 to 2023. She completed her Ph.D. degree in the Alireza Abbaspourrad Research Group at Cornell University in 2019. In 2016, she obtained her M.S degree in Robert Sammelson Research Group at Ball State University. She also earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Shiraz University in 2009 and 2012, respectively. She is a recipient of the Cornell Technology Acceleration and Maturation (CTAM) Fund Award, Deep Graduate Excellence Award, "Think Like a Molecule" Award of the American Chemical Society (ACS), The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) Award, and the Turkiye Burslari Merit Scholarship Award.