Current Members
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Paul Alivisatos
President of the University of Chicago
John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Chemistry
Affiliations: Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and the College
Email: president@uchicago.edu
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B.A. in Chemistry, The University of Chicago, 1981
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1986
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1988-1993
Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1993-1995
Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1995-1998
Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1995-1998
Associate Laboratory Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2005-2007
Deputy Lab Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2008
Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2009-2015
President, University of Chicago, 2021-Present
STAFF AND POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS


Dr. Joeson Wong
Postdoctoral Researcher (2022–)
Email: joeson@uchicago.edu
Google Scholar (Publications are provided)
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B.S.E. University of Michigan
Ph. D. California Institute of Technology

Dr. Woonhyuk Baek
Postdoctoral Researcher (2022–)
Email: whbaek@uchicago.edu
Google Scholar (Publications are provided)
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B. Eng. Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Ph. D. Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
2021-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Research Area: Shape-controlled synthesis of colloidal III-V nanomaterials

Dr. Minhal Hasham
Postdoctoral Researcher (2023–)
Email: minhal@uchicago.edu
Google Scholar (Publications are provided)
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H.B.Sc. University of Toronto
M.Sc. University of Toronto
Ph. D. University of Toronto
GRADUATE STUDENTS

Michelle Crook
Visiting Ph.D. Candidate at UChicago (2022-)
Email: mfcrook@uchicago.edu
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B.S. in Chemistry, Binghamton University
Ph.D. in Chemistry, UC Berkeley (Current Student)
Project: Elucidating the solution chemistry in graphene liquid cell transmission electron microscopy

Xingzhi Wang
Visiting Ph.D. Candidate at UChicago (2022-)
Email: xingzhi@uchicago.edu
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B.S. in Chemistry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Current Student)
Project: Application of machine learning to extract information from electron microscopy data.

Abdullah S. Abbas
Visiting Ph.D. Candidate at UChicago (2022-)
Email: asabbas@uchicago.edu
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Honour B.A.S. in Nanotechnology Engineering, University of Waterloo
M.Sc. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (Current Student)
Project: Energy Applications

Yuxuan Zhang
Graduate Student at UChicago PME (2022-)
Email: yuxuanz1@uchicago.edu
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M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Montreal

Dylan Bian
Graduate Student at UChicago Chemistry (2022-)
Email: dbian@uchicago.edu
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Honour B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSB College of Creative Studies
Minor in East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies (Japanese)
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Yasin Badawy
Undergraduate Student at UChicago PME
Email: ybadawy@uchicago.edu
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Major in Chemical Engineering
Minor in Material Science and Polymer Synthesis

Viraj Bodiwala
Undergraduate Student at UChicago PME
Email: virajb@uchicago.edu
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Major in Molecular Engineering (Quantum Engineering Track)
Major in Physics
Major in Quantum Information Science