Our Team
Research associates:
Dr. Elena Kitova (ekitova@ualberta.ca)
- Ph.D. in Chemistry, Moscow State University, 1994
- Research associate with Dr. John Klassen
Elena’s research field is biological mass spectrometry, with focus on non-covalent protein complexes
Dr. Pavel I. Kitov (pkitov@ualberta.ca)
- M.Sc. in Chemistry, Moscow State University, 1987 (Advisor: Prof. Y. G. Bundel)
- Ph.D. in Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1994 (Advisor: Prof. N. K. Kochetkov)
- Postdoctoral fellow then research associate with Dr. David Bundle since November, 1994
Pavel’s current research is focused on organic chemistry and data analysis.
Dr. Ling Han (ling.han@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc., Chemistry, Nanjing University, China, 2007
- M.Sc., Chemistry, Nanjing University, China, 2010
- Ph.D., Chemistry, University of Alberta, 2015
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Klassen group since September 2015
Ling is mainly focusing on investigating the mechanism of protein-glycolipid interactions, and the influence of membrane environments on the interactions, also he is interested in developing mass spectrometry based methods for small biomolecules (e.g. glycolipids) quantitation
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Duong Bui (buithi@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc., Chemistry, Belgorod State National Research University, Russia, 2016
- M.Sc. Analytical Chemistry, Tartu University (Estonia)+ Uppsala University (Sweden), 2018
- Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Alberta, 2023
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Klassen group and Mahal group since January 2024
Dr. Audrey Auger (audreyauger@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc. Physics and Chemistry, University of Lille, France, 2017
- M.Sc. Chemistry and Sciences of life – Bioanalytical chemistry, University of Lille, France, 2019
- Ph.D. Biology-Health – Molecular and Biochemical aspects, University of Lille, France, 2023
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Klassen group and Mahal group since July 2024
Visiting Professor
Dr. Amr El-Hawiet
- Professor, faculty of pharmacy, Alexandria university, Egypt
Graduate students
Xinrui Ji (xji8@ualberta.ca)
- B.S. in Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 2023
- Master’s student in Klassen group since September 2023
Jing Huang (jhuang25@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc., Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 2021
- M.Sc., Chemical Engineering, University of Toronto, 2022
- Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since September 2023
Doha Elmoghny (elmoghny@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc.,Clinical Pharmacy , University of Alexandria ,2017 with honours
- M.Sc., Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry , University of Alexandria, 2022
- Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since September 2024
- B.Sc., Chemistry, University of Waterloo, 2024
- Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since September 2024
Abdelrhman Hussein (abdelrh1@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc., Pharmaceutical sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, 2020
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M.Sc., Pharmaceutical sciences (Pharmacognosy and natural products chemistry), Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, 2023
- Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since September 2024
Yousef Haidar (yhaidar@ualberta.ca)
- BSc., Biological Chemistry, University of Toronto, Mississauga, ON; 2021
- M.Sc., Physical/Analytical Chemistry, Western University, London, ON, 2023
- Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since October 2025
Undergraduate students
Gabriel (Gabe) Liu (gzliu@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc. Biochemistry with honors at University of Alberta since September 2021
Jainilkumar (Jainil) Patel (jainilku@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc. Biochemistry with honors at University of Alberta since September 2021
Simar Dhillon (skdhill1@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc Biology at the University of Alberta since September 2022
Sana Siddiqui (ssiddiq2@ualberta.ca)
- B.Sc Biology at the University of Alberta since September 2023
Amina Siddiq (asiddiq@ualberta.ca)
Mikhail Popovskiy (popovski@ualberta.ca)
Shanze Shahzad (shahzadshanze@gmail.com)