Abigail Soliven

asoliven [at] berkeley [dot] edu

Abi grew up in Melbourne, Florida and received her B.S. in Chemistry and a minor in English from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. At Purdue, she worked in Dr. Christopher Uyeda's group on cobalt-catalyzed intramolecular vinylidene insertion into alkynes. She also spent a summer at Emory University working in Dr. William Wuest's lab on carboxylation of C(sp2) bromides via formate activation. She moved to Berkeley in 2024 to pursue methods development and catalysis. Outside of the lab, she loves reading, making Spotify playlists, and enjoying sunshine.