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Group Members

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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

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Jiachen Li

Postdoc
Member since 2022

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Duke University, 2022
B.S. in Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 2016

Chaoqun Zhang

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Ph.D. in Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 2024
B.S. in Chemistry, Zhejiang University, 2019

Postdoc
Member since 2024

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Ke Liao

Postdoc
Member since 2025

Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 2025
Postdoc, Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, 2023-2024
Postdoc, California Institute of Technology, 2022-2023
Ph.D. in Quantum Chemistry, International Max Planck Research School for Condensed Matter Science, 2021
B.S. in Physics, Wuhan University, 2015

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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

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Christian Venturella

Graduate Student

DOD NDSEG Fellow
Member since 2022

A.B. in Chemistry, Princeton University, 2021

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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

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Sander Cohen-Janes

Graduate Student

DOD NDSEG Fellow
Member since 2023

B.S. in Chemistry, Brandeis University, 2023

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Pen Chang

Graduate Student
Member since 2023

B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics, Stony Brook University, 2023

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Nicholas Hatzis-Schoch

Graduate Student (joint with Elsa Yan)
Member since 2025

A.B. in Physics and Chemistry, Washington University in St. Louis, 2024

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Natsume Wu

Undergraduate Student
Member since 2024

Yale College, Class of 2026

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Sebastien Lowy

Undergraduate Student
Member since 2023

Yale College, Class of 2026

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Simon Britton

Undergraduate Student
Member since 2025

Yale College, Class of 2026

Group Alumni

  • Jincheng Lei (now: postdoc at Stanford SLAC)

       (postdoc, 2022-2025)​

  • Ximena Leyva Peralta (now: master student at EU's i-MESC program)

       (undergraduate student, 2022-2025)​

  • Jessica Liu

       (undergraduate student, 2023-2025)​

  • Mateo Cardenes Wuttig (now: graduate student at Yale Applied Physics)

       (summer visiting researcher, 2025)​

  • Yuhang Ai (now: graduate student at Caltech)

       (summer undergraduate researcher, 2022)​

  • Jinghong Zhang (now: graduate student at Harvard)

       (summer undergraduate researcher, 2022)​

  • Melanie King

       (undergraduate student, 2022-2023)

  • Alec Chai

       (undergraduate student, 2021-2022)

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