Rashad Karimov, PhD, College of Sciences and Mathematics Faculty and Staff

Short Bio

Dr. Rashad Karimov was born and raised in Azerbaijan. After high school he moved to Moscow, Russia and completed his Bachelor’s degree at the Lomonosov Moscow State University. While there he worked on rearrangement reactions of gem-dibromospiropentanes under the supervision of Dr. Elena Averina. Subsequently he moved to United States to pursue his Master’s degree under the supervision of Viktor Zhdankin at University of Minnesota Duluth working on the synthesis of hypervalent iodine reagents. In 2014, he obtained his PhD degree from Cornell University-Rockefeller University-Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Tri-Institutional Program in Chemical Biology. His dissertation has focused on total synthesis of a saponin natural product, Jujuboside A under the supervision of Derek Tan and David Gin. After his PhD he was a postdoctoral fellow with John Hartwig at UC Berkeley working on transition metal catalysis. In 2017 he started his independent career at Auburn University as an Assistant Professor and promoted to Associate Professor in 2023.