Ángel Hernández-Mejías, G2

BS, University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, 2021
ahernan3 [at] caltech.edu

Ángel was born and raised in Caguas, Puerto Rico. He earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, where he worked in Prof. Eduardo Caro’s research group focusing on the synthesis of marine natural products. The summer of 2021, Ángel joined Prof. Hartwig's lab as an Amgen Scholar where he studied the borylation of alkyl C–H bonds. He then moved to Pasadena and joined the Reisman lab in 2022 to pursue his passion for synthetic chemistry. Outside of the lab, he enjoys watching sports, eating mofongo, listening to music, and going to the beach.