Lab Members
Meet the Funk Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.
Principal Investigator
![William Funk](../images/headshots/funk.jpg)
Lab Manager
![Fariba Tayyari](../images/headshots/tayyari.jpg)
Fariba Tayyari, PhD
Lab Manager II
PhD in Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Purdue University
Research Staff
![James Burke](../images/headshots/James_Burke.jpg)
James Burke, MS
Research Project Coordinator
MS Organic Chemistry, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Postdoctoral Fellow
![Yeunook Bae, PhD](../images/headshots/bae.jpg)
Yeunook Bae, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
![Aishwarya Jala, PhD](../images/headshots/jala.jpg)
Aishwarya Jala, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
PhD in Pharmaceutical Analysis, Department of Pharmaceutical Analysis, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Guwahati, India
Graduate Students
![Tyler Jacobson](../images/headshots/jacobson.jpg)
Tyler Jacobson
MD/MBA candidate at Feinberg School of Medicine and Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University