Zohaib Siddiqi, PhD
Short Bio
Zohaib Siddiqi was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, where he conducted research with Professors Adam Matzger and Melanie Sanford.
He completed his Ph.D. in 2023 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of Professor David Sarlah. His doctoral research focused on the dearomative oxidation of aromatic and heteroaromatic compounds and the dearomatization of commodity polymers.
Dr. Siddiqi then joined Professor Brooks Abel’s research group at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied polymer-synthesis methodology. He joined the faculty at Auburn University in fall 2026.
Education
PhD in Chemistry University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 2023
BS in Chemistry University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2018
Innovation
The Siddiqi Group addresses challenges in polymer chemistry that require the development of new organic methods and provide access to previously unexplored areas of chemical space.
We seek to translate fundamental advances in organic reactivity into applications in chemical biology, sustainable plastics and dynamic materials. A central goal of the group is to train chemists with complementary expertise in organic synthesis and experimental materials science.
