Alexander M. Spokoyny is an American chemist and a professor in chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA and a faculty member of the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
Spokoyny has started his research career as an undergraduate student at UCLA working in the laboratory of M. Frederick Hawthorne.
He received his Ph.D. degree in 2011 from Northwestern University in inorganic and materials chemistry working with Chad Mirkin.
Spokoyny then conducted a post-doctoral research stint at MIT in chemical biology until 2014 working jointly with Stephen L. Buchwald and Bradley L. Pentelute on peptide stapling[3] and organometallic bioconjugation chemistry.
[4] Spokoyny group's research encompasses an interdisciplinary approach focusing on pressing problems in chemistry, biology and materials science with emphasis on developing new molecular cluster chemistry.