Michael Vrionides

Michael is a Chemistry Major at UConn who is also minoring in Mathematics. His interests lie in combining BODIPY fluorescent dyes and azobenzene photoswitches to create a new class of photocatalysts to catalyze atom transfer radical addition reactions. He aims to do this by creating donor-bridge-acceptor molecules using azobenzene as the bridge and BODIPY as the electron acceptor while varying the electron donor.