Group Members
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, 2018-2021
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018
B.S. in Chemical Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2013
Awards and Honors (since joining Yale):
AFOSR Young Investigator Award, 2024
NSF CAREER Award, 2023
Jincheng Lei
Postdoc
Member since 2022
Ph.D. in Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, 2021
B.S. in Materials Chemistry, Nankai University, 2015
Jiachen Li
Postdoc
Member since 2022
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Duke University, 2022
B.S. in Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 2016
Chaoqun Zhang
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 2024
B.S. in Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 2019
Postdoc
Member since 2024
Katelyn Laughon
Graduate Student
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Member since 2021
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Tennessee, 2021
A.S. in Chemistry, Roane State Community College, 2018
Christian Venturella
Graduate Student
DOD NDSEG Fellow
Member since 2022
A.B. in Chemistry, Princeton University, 2021
Christopher Hillenbrand
Graduate Student
Member since 2023
M.S. in Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022
B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020
Sander Cohen-Janes
Graduate Student
Member since 2023
B.S. in Chemistry, Brandeis University, 2023
Pen Chang
Graduate Student
Member since 2023
B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics, Stony Brook University, 2023
Ximena Leyva Peralta
Undergraduate Student
Member since 2022
Yale College, Class of 2025
Sebastien Lowy
Undergraduate Student
Member since 2023
Yale College, Class of 2026
Jessica Liu
Undergraduate Student
Member since 2023
Yale College, Class of 2025
Group Alumni
Melanie King
Undergraduate Student (2022-2023)
B.A. in Chemistry and B.S. in Physics, Yale University, 2023
Alec Chai
Undergraduate Student (2021-2022)
B.S. in Chemistry, Yale University, 2022