Alex Umanzor, Ph.D.

Salvadoreño🇸🇻|🏳️‍🌈|he/él/그|Oberlin College Postdoc|ACS DIC Young Investigator ‘26|UMN PhD ‘25|CAS Future Leaders ‘24|Merck UCC ‘23|NSF GRFP ‘22|UCLA ‘20|

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

Beyond thrilled to have been accepted to the 2024 Institute for Future PUI Faculty at @LafCol !! Can’t wait to meet + work with my cohort & the Lafayette chem dept in April! Feeling blessed & one step closer to Prof. Umanzor ☺️ as always, thank you to my village @UMNChemistry 🫶🏼

[NaOH Bartfield, PhD 🧪 @NaOHBartfield]

Its really great to be seeing all of these NSF GRFP acceptances. That fellowship means so much to so many young scientists!

To those who didn't get it: be proud that you participated! I like to view rejection as direction, and sometimes we just dont win. On to the next one!

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

@Elvis_Cao @imperialcollege Congrats, Elvis!!!

[Myles Drance @MylesDrance]

I highly encourage grad students and postdocs who wish to pursue a career at a primarily undergraduate institution to apply to the Institute for Future PUI Faculty at Lafayette College. It's a really great program! https://t.co/y5YXlv2leq

[UCLA Chem & Biochem @uclachem]

The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry is excited to welcome emerging pedagogy scholar Jazmin Aguilar-Romero, who joined the UCLA faculty as an Assistant Teaching Professor on July 1, 2025. https://t.co/84oxV2Y5V0

[Nikolaj🇺🇦🇵🇸 @nikicaga]

NYC is having an all-time run of hilarious mayors ngl

[Roberts Group at UMN @robertsgroupumn]

Congrats to our fearless leader @CortnieRoberts on being named a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow!! Incredibly well deserved; we’re excited to see where this support takes our science next ✨

[UCLA Chem & Biochem @uclachem]

Congrats to Prof. Osvaldo Gutierrez on receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers (PECASE) from Pres. Biden! The highest honor for early-career scientists & engineers. https://t.co/CvmhXAuUd0 @UCLA_CSRC

[Roberts Group at UMN @robertsgroupumn]

Congrats to the team @Seongboi @Sal_K_3 @FeliciaYu000 and our collaborators from the Boyn group @UMNChemistry on this awesome contribution to free aryne chemistry ✨

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

I highly recommend this program to anyone interested in PUI/teaching-focused faculty careers! My 2 weeks at Lafayette were absolutely amazing & incredibly transformative for my prof. development; I’d be happy to answer any questions ppl have about the experience ☺️ Go Pards!! 🫶🏼

[Lafayette Chemistry @MarquisDeChimie]

Calling all future chemistry faculty! The application for the Institute for Future PUI Faculty is now open! We are looking for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to participate in a 2-week immersive NSF-funded training program. https://t.co/ApKYIGvzoB @NSF @LafCol

[Roberts Group at UMN @robertsgroupumn]

Team Phen had a ton of fun on our newest paper out now in @ACSCatalysis, using a combo of kinetics & data science to study the mechanism & origins of selectivity in a Pd-cat. aryne annulation! Congrats team!! 🎉 @ErinPlasek @DenmanBrylon @CortnieRoberts

https://t.co/g9gpom0sga

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

@adii_dass Thank you Ady!!! 🫶🏼🫂🥰 hope all is well with you!!

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

Aww thanks Beza!! 🫶🏼 Been too busy to tweet about it but it’s been an amazing experience so far getting to teach my own class this semester!! ☺️ Prof. Umanzor came true earlier than I thought it would hehe

[(Bae)za @BezaTuga]

Y’all see @PinacolWhipped doing big things?? #umnproud

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

@gomobel Muchas gracias, Fer!! 🫶🏼🫂

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

@parisobsessedd Awww thank you Allison!!! 🫶🏼 can’t believe that it’s already been 4 years since our class! I’m so lucky I got to work with such awesome students like you for my first semester of TAing ☺️ I hope grad school is treating you well!!

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

@ACS_DivBioChem @BezaTuga 😆 Oh ACS Biochem and ChemBio, you’re too kind 🤭🫶🏼

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

@Devin_Eleven Ahhh thank you Devin!! 🫶🏼🫂 hope all is well back on the east coast!! ☺️

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

@soto_marcela89 Thank you, Diana!!!

[Alex Umanzor, Ph.D. @PinacolWhipped]

@EreminaOE Aww thank you Olga you’re the sweetest 🫶🏼🫂 hope to see you soon in LA!! 🥰

[Roberts Group at UMN @robertsgroupumn]

Another successful Canadian thanksgiving in the books! 🍗

[C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag]

Melissa Ramirez uses a cutting-edge approach that combines computations and experiments to develop catalytic reactions. She’s gearing up to start her own lab at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Read more in C&EN's 2024 Trailblazers issue: https://t.co/L35E563yRW