Team
Current Group Members
Dr. Farnaz Heidar-Zadeh
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, Queen's University, Canada
Farnaz received the Polanyi Prize in Chemistry from the Council of Ontario Universities.
Dr. Fanwang Meng
Banting (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellow (2024)
Fanwang's research focuses on computational drug discovery and open-source software development. He obtained his Ph.D. from McMaster University followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT.
Omid Hosseinzadeh
Ph.D. Student (2025)
Omid joined the lab in September 2025. He obtained his M.Sc. in computational chemistry from University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada.
Negar Molavi
M.Sc. Student (2025)
Negar joined the lab in September 2025. She obtained her B.Sc. in Chemistry from Shahid Beheshti University, Iran.
Olivia Saur
Undergraduate Researcher
Olivia is majoring in mathematics at Queen's University, and joined the group in summer 2025 as a C2MCI Summer Outreach and Research Fellow.
Ellie MacKinnon
Undergraduate Researcher
Ellie is majoring in Engineering Chemistry at Smith Engineering, Queen's University, and joined the group in October 2025.
Alumni & Past Members
Postdocs (1)
Graduates (3)
Visiting Students (2)
- Marc Montilla – Visiting Ph.D. Student, University of Girona, Spain (2022)
- Carlos Castillo – Visiting Ph.D. Student, University of Concepción, Chile (2022-2023)
Undergraduates (23)
- Nicole Wu – Undergraduate Researcher (2025)
- Giovanni B. Da Rosa – GSoC Intern (2025)
- Enjy Ashraf – GSoC Intern (2025)
- Omid Hosseinzadeh – GSoC Intern (2025)
- Wanhui Geng – GSoC Intern (2025)
- Sparsh Karna – GSoC Intern (2025)
- Jun Xia – GSoC Intern (2024)
- Giovanni B. Da Rosa – GSoC Intern (2024)
- Partha Paul – MITACS Globalink Intern (2024)
- Anderson Ruiz Delgado – MITACS Globalink Intern (2024)
- Abigail Broscius – MITACS Globalink Intern (2023)
- Camilo Monsalve Maya – MITACS Globalink Intern (2023)
- Carlos Castillo – ELAP Scholar (2022-2023)
- Sydney McLennan – Undergraduate Thesis Student (2022-2023)
- Maximilian van Zyl – Honours Thesis Student (2022-2023)
- Deeptendu Santra – MITACS Globalink Intern (2022)
- Yili Shen – MITACS Globalink Intern (2022)
- Alapan Chaudhuri – GSoC Intern (2022)
- Chanhee Park – Honours Thesis Student (2021-2022)
- Liam Bencharsky – Honours Thesis Student (2021-2022)
- Seshadri Keshavan – MITACS Globalink Intern (2021)
- Victor Hugo Cano Gil – GSoC Intern (2021)
- Nathan Woods – GSoC Intern (2021)