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

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. Kamran Forghani

Lab/Research Manager, Senior Scientist (2022–)

Email: kforghani@uchicago.edu

Dr. Joeson Wong

Postdoctoral Researcher (2022–)

Email: joeson@uchicago.edu

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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