Alumni News: Shashwati Paul

Shashwati Paul joined the Department of Chemistry in 2019 and earned her Ph.D. in 2024 under the supervision of Professor M. Kevin Brown, focusing on designing and synthesizing saturated bicyclic building blocks for medicinal chemistry. During her Ph.D., she collaborated with industry partners, received multiple awards, and served as President of Women in Organic Chemistry (WOC@IU). She deeply valued the department’s collaborative environment, building lifelong friendships that became a strong support system far from her home in India. After graduating, she joined Eli Lilly & Company as a Process Chemist in the Synthetic Molecule Discovery and Development (SMDD) department.