Meet Our New Post Doctoral Student: Sam Afoullouss

Sam Afoullouss Completed his B.Sc. in Biopharmaceutical Chemistry at the National University of Ireland Galway. Here he researched the medical importance of venoms From the invasive spiders Steatoda nobilis. Sam then went on to earn his Ph.D. from the Marine Biodiscovery Laboratory at NUI Galway where he worked on the isolation and characterization of small molecules from deep sea corals and sponges using spectroscopic techniques like NMR and VCD, coupled with spectrometric techniques.