Dr. Elliott Cleven, Ph.D.

Miami, Florida •

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Summary

Recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of Miami with interests in spectroscopy and chemical education. Feel free to reach out and discuss anything relating to NMR experimentation and instrumentation. Looking for research positions related to experimental design.

Experience

Graduate Research Assistant
University of Miami • 2021-present
  • Designed pulse programs for pathway selective excitation in NMR experiments
  • Used a population-weighted model to isolate spectral properties of monosuccinate in solution
  • Created methodology for improving the extraction of thermodynamic parameters from 1D NMR lineshapes
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of Miami • 2021-2026
  • Instructed lab courses in general chemistry, analytical chemistry, and the chemistry of food and taste
  • Created course materials for general chemistry, organic chemistry, and the chemistry of food and taste
  • Helped both freshmen and seniors design experimeents to showcase analytical instrumentation design and provide outreach to the Miami community
MS&T Intern
Teva Pharmaceuticals • Summer 2025
  • Created dashboard to integrate laboratory testing, manufacturing, and warehouse data to monitor compliance to FDA standards and flag unnecessary equipment downtime
  • Moved dashboard into production within 8 weeks which monitors product yields at each manufacturing step to identify process efficiency
  • Led a sitewide training on data queries using Power Query and presentation using Power BI

Publications

Poudel Sharma, S.; Paudyal, S.; Domena, J.; Ajith, A; Zhou, Y; Cleven, E.C.; Agatemor, C.; Van Dyken, J. D.; Leblanc, R. Cytotoxicity and Resistance Evolution of a Novel Antifungal Carbon Nanoparticle. Journal of Oleo Science (in press)

Sunny, A. S.; Cleven, E. C.; Kumar, P.; Venkataramani, S.; Walls, J. D.; Ramamurthy, V. Structure, Dynamics, and Reactivity of Encapsulated Molecules in Restricted Spaces: Arylazoisoxazoles within an Octa Acid Capsule. Langmuir 2024. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c01996

Education

Ph.D. Chemistry — University of Miami (2026)

B.S. Chemistry — University of Miami (2021) Cum Laude

HS — Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (2017)

Skills

NMR MatLab Power BI Gaussian