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

 

Visiting Professor

 

Dr. Amr El-Hawiet

  • Professor, faculty of pharmacy, Alexandria university, Egypt

 

 

 

Graduate students

 

James Favell (jfavell@ualberta.ca)

  • B.Sc., Chemistry, University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, 2020
  • Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since November 2020

 

 


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

 


(zzhang29@ualberta.ca)

  • 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
  • M.Sc., Pharmaceutical sciences (Pharmacognosy and natural products chemistry),  Faculty of Pharmacy, Alexandria University, 2023
  • Ph.D. Candidate in Klassen group since September 2024

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)