Current Members
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
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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
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Dr. Kamran Forghani
Lab/Research Manager, Senior Scientist (2022–)
Email: kforghani@uchicago.edu
Google Scholar (Publications are provided)
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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
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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
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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
Research Area: Spectroscopy and Structural Studies of Colloidal Nanocrystals
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Dr. Chang Liu
Postdoctoral Researcher (2023–)
Email: liuchang@uchicago.edu
ReserachGate (Publications are provided)
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B.S. Nanjing University
Ph. D. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Area: Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy
GRADUATE STUDENTS
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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.
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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: Perovskite
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Amanda Brewer
Visiting Ph.D. Candidate at UChicago (2023-)
Email: asbrewer@uchicago.edu
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B.S. in Biochemistry, University of California Santa Cruz
Project: Thermodynamics
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Yuxuan Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate at UChicago PME (2022-)
Email: yuxuanz1@uchicago.edu
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M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Montreal
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Dylan Bian
Ph.D. Candidate 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)
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Binyu (Barry) Wu
Ph.D. Student at UChicago PME (2023-)
Email: binyuwu@uchicago.edu
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Honour B.S. in Chemistry, Shenzhen University
Minor in Physics
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Chenqi Fan
Ph.D. Student at UChicago Chemistry (2023-)
Email: chenqifan@uchicago.edu
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High Honor B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
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Yasin Badawy
Undergraduate Student at UChicago PME
Email: ybadawy@uchicago.edu
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Major in Molecular Engineering, Chemical Track
Minor in Material Science and Polymer Synthesis
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Harrison Burke
Undergraduate Student at UChicago PME
Email: hzburke@uchicago.edu
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Major in Molecular Engineering, Chemical Track
Minor in Computational Molecular Engineering
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William Zheng
Undergraduate Student at UChicago PME
Email: yichen0830@uchicago.edu
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Major in Molecular Engineering, Chemical Track
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Ivan Shapkarov
Undergraduate Student at UChicago PME
Email: ishapkarov@uchicago.edu
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Major in Molecular Engineering, Quantum Track
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Sarah Thau
Undergraduate Student at UChicago Physical Sciences Division
Email: sarahthau@uchicago.edu
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Major in Chemistry and Biological Chemistry