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Cassandra Diaz-Allen is an Industry Assistant Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, specializing in natural product chemistry. With over a decade of experience teaching at the college level, she has made significant contributions to the pedagogy of chemistry. Cassandra earned her B.S. degree in Chemistry from Stetson University in 2016 and went on to complete her Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Ohio State University in 2019. She subsequently received her Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy from Ohio State University. Her doctoral research focused on the development of a new 1D-TOCSY NMR dereplication method to detect non-bioactive known compounds, allowing for the prioritization of lichen-derived extracts in antiproliferative assessments through bioassay-guided fractionation. Additionally, she has been involved in pedagogical research where she developed 3D-printed molecular models as visual aids for undergraduate organic chemistry students, aiming to enhance their comprehension of the critical role steric hindrance plays in substitution and elimination reactions. Cassandra continues to integrate molecular modeling and computational chemistry into her teaching philosophy, believing that visual aids help students grasp complex chemical processes at a microscopic level.
Administered by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.