Alumni and Former Staff

A S M Jahirul I Mazumder, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Abdulaziz M. Alali

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organic, Synthesis

Abdulaziz S. Alsubhi

PhD student

Research Interests: polymer, Polyolefin, Single Site

Abdulelah Qahtan

Master Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, spectroscopy

Abdullah Al Abdulghani

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Computational Chemistry, DFT, Heterogeneous catalysis, reaction engineering, dry reforming

Abdullah Alsalloum

​Ph.D. Student

Abdullah Alturki

​Master Student

Research Interests: catalysis, Energy sources

Abdullah Dakhil

Ph.D. Student

Abdullah Gobouri

Master Student

Research Interests: Sulfur Recovery, Gas-Solid Reactors, Catalytic Oxidation of H2S, Characterization of Titania & Alumina Catalysts

Abdullah R. Nooh

Master Student

Abdulrahman Alharbi

Master Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, dry reforming

Abdulrahman Alzailaie

Master Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Catalyst testing and screening, Kinetics and Process simulation

Abhay Dokania, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, CO2 Conversion, Catalyst design

Abhishek Dutta Chowdhury,Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: zeolite, catalysis, spectroscopy

Abou-Hamad edy, Ph.D.

​Research Engineer

Research Interests: ​Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP), Surface Chemistry, Structural/Analytical Characterization, Nanomaterials, Nanotechnology

Adrian Hohl

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Proteomics, Protein Engineering, Unnatural amino acids

Adrian Ramirez Galilea Ph.D.

Staff Engineer - HTP

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, High-Throughput, AspenPlus, CO2 Conversion

Ahlam Alsulami

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Polyethylene, copolymerization, ATRP, ROP

Ahmed Alshanqiti

Master Student

Research Interests: Alkane metathesis, Single Site, Surface Organometallic chemistry (SOMC)

Ahmed S. Alkhalaf

​Master Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, MeOH conversion, Zeolites, CO2 utilization

Ahmed Ziani, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photocatalysis1, Physical Chemistry, Optics, materials engineering, Material Characterization

Akmaral Seitkhan

Research Specialist

Research Interests: TEM, SEM, FIB

Albaraa Kamal

​Master Student

Alberto Rodriguez Gomez,Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, micro/mesoporous materials, metal supported catalysts, in situ catalyst characterization

Ali Alhussain

Master Student

Alla Dikhtiarenko, Ph.D.

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Nanoporous materials, Heterogeneous catalysis, crystal design, synthesis and functionalization, crystal structure determination, XRD

Allison Ramirez

Communication Specialist

Amal A. Baqais

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Solar power, fuel, hydrogen evolution, oxygen evolution, inorganic material, heterogonous catalysis, tuning band gap, XRD, XPS, SEM and TEM

Amandine Cadiau, Ph.D.

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: Metal-organic framework, Crystallography, Structure/properties relationship, Solid-state characterizations

Ameen Shahid, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Material synthesis, characterization, Catalyst testing and screening

Amer Alabd

Master Student

Amol M. Hengne, Ph.D.

Research Scientist - Remote

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, C1 chemistry, Biomass utilization, Sustainable Chemistry

Anaam Al-ShaikhAli

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, bimetallic nanoparticles, Synthesis, characterizations

Anastassja Leyla Akal

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Discovery of novel enzymes, Protein Engineering, Biocatalysis, Biotechnology and Bioprocesses

Anatoly Peshkov, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Organic Synthesis, catalysis

Andrey Goryachev, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: spectroscopy, Heterogeneous catalysis, In-situ methods, Method development, CO2 Valorization

Ann Bauwens

Executive secretary

Antonio Aguilar Tapia, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow - Remote Research Consultant

Research Interests: operando, catalysis, X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Artem Russkikh

​Ph. D. Student

Atanu Ghosh,Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Material chemistry, Noble metal clusters, MOF, catalysis

Athira Cheruvelil, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Reaction mechanism, Computational chemistry1

Aya Saidi

​​Ph.D. Student​​​

Research Interests: Synthesis of well-defined supported organometallic complexes for ​alkane metathesis​

Ayan Zhumekenov

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Material Science, Perovskites, Crystallization, Synthesis

Azimet Karluk

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Perovskites, X-ray Detector, Scintillator

Badriah Alamer

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Nanocluster

Baraa Werghi

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Alkane metathesis, Aluminum, Oxide surfaces, Single Site, surface organometallic chemistry

Basma Mahi

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Polymer synthesis, Drug Delivery, Micellar Systems

Batool Altaher

​Master Student

Research Interests: Nanomaterial, catalysis, MOFs

Bekir Turedi

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Hybrid perovskites, solar cell, photophysics of semiconductors

Bertrand Rosmade

​​Lab Technician

Büsra Dereli, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Computational Chemistry, Homogeneous Catalysis, computational electrocatalysis, metal-organic frameworks

Carlota Rodriguez

Business Administrator

Changguang Yao, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Chao Guan

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Hydrogen storage, Formic acid dehydrogenation

Chaojie Cui, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Chemical vapor deposition

Chen Zhu, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Transition metal catalysis, ​Photocatalysis, eletrocatalysis, photoelectrocatalysis, DFT-calculation, wavefunction analysis

Cheng-Wei Lin, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Conjugated polymer, 2D Materials, solid state physics/chemistry, membranes

Chien-Chih Tseng

​Research Specialist in Prof. Tung group

Chih-Wen Yang

​Ph.D. Student

Chinmoy K. Hazra,Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Development of new reactions through electrochemistry

Chuan Wang

​Business Administrator

Chunhui Zhou

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: PNP Pincer Complex, Catalytic reactivities

Chunyang Li, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Ci Lin

​Ph.D. Student

Cong Wang

​Lab Assistant in Prof. Abdelsaboor group

Daniel Lupp Ph.D.

Post-doctoral fellow

Research Interests: Reaction machanism, Density Functional Theory (DFT)

Daniela Bianco (Prof. Basset)

Administrative Assistant

De Wang, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Boron-mediated polymerization

Dharmaraj Periyanagounder, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Nanofabrication (E-beam & Photolithography), Nanoelectronics, Opto-electronics, Neuromorphic Computing, catalysis

Didier Barradas Bautista  Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Computational Biology, Protein-protein docking, Network biology, Computational modeling of macromolecules, Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Drug discovery, Machine learning

Diego Zapater Bes, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Reactor technologies, Heterogeneous catalysis, oxygenates to hydrocarbons, Zeolites, eotypes

Ding-Jier Yuan

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalyst

Dong-Chang Kang

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, CO oxidation, CH4 combustion

Duanxing Li

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: photoelectrocatalysis, water splitting, hydrogen evolution

Eduardo Estrada

​Lab Technician in Prof. Osman group

Research Interests: ​Electrical Safety.

Emanuele Aresu

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organic chemistry, Peptidomimetics, Organocatalysis, Chiral-Phase Transfer Catalysis

Esra Hawsawi

Master Student

Research Interests: materials characterization, solar energy, sustainable energy, materials for biomedical applications.

Eva Pump, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: surface organometallic chemistry, mesoporous materials, molecular model, catalysis, Alkane metathesis

Fadhil Almukhtar

Master Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, reaction engineering, CO2 Conversion

Fatimah Algarni

Ph.D. Student

Fazal Raziq, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Advanced Materials Synthesis, Solar fuels production

Feijie Li

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ROP of lactones, chemical science

Gabriel Jeantelot

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Surface chemistry of metal oxides, surface organometallic chemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis, Photocatalysis1

Georgios Polymeropoulos, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Polymer chemistry, ​Anionic Polymerization, ATRP, integral asymmetric membranes

Georgios Zapsas, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Anionic Polymerization, Polyhomolagtion, BCPs Surface Analysis via Atomic Force Microscopy

Guillaume Magnin, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Haidong Li, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Characterization of complex mixtures, Hydroprocessing, Catalytic Cracking

Hao-Ling Tang, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Hao-Ling -Tang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Hassan Ait Ahsaine, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, Structural analyses, Photocatalysis1, CO2 reduction

Henrik Haspel, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, water splitting, CO2 reduction, solar fuels

Hong Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Hongpo Liu, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Transition metal dichalcogenides, 2D metal nanomaterials, epitaxial growth, Electrocatalysis

Huaifeng Li, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: catalysis, Pincer, Metal

Huifeng Yue, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Huiwen Lin, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ibrahim Dursun

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Optoelectronics, Material chemistry, Nanomaterials and material characterization

Irina Minenkova

​Lab Technician

Irina Yarulina, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Porous materials, Zeolites, C1 chemistry

Iuliia Polishchuk

​Lab Technician

Javier Chavarrio Canas

​Master Student

Jawaher Almutlaq

​Ph. D. Student

Jean-Marie Basset, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor of C​hemical Science

Jiakai Liu

​Ph. D. Student

Jianfeng Zhao, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Ultrafast scanning electron microscopy, surface dynamics, photovoltaic materials

Jianjian Wang, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Nanostructured functional material, selectively catalytic reaction, sustainable energy production

Jie Chen, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Perovskites, Crystal growth, (Photo)catalysis, Optoelectronics

Jing Fan

​Lab Technician

Joost A. Steverlynck, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photochemistry, Organic Electrochemistry, Organometal Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, Conjugated Polymers, Liquid Crystals

Jr-Hau He, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

Research Interests: Electrocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry, water splitting, CO2 reduction, Hydrogen generation

Jun Pan, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Nanomaterial, Quantum dots, Optoelectronics

Kairui Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Single atom catalyst, DFT, HDO

Kanav Kalra

Ph.D. Student

Karthik Peramaiya, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photoelectrochemical, N2 reduction

Keisuke Obata

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Electrochemistry, photocatalyst, water splitting

Khaled Alshehri

​Master Student

Khalid Alahmadi

Master Student

Kristin Munkerup

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Pincer, DFT, kinetics, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, flash photolysis, mechanistic studies, Lewis acidity and basicity

Kwangjae Lee, Ph.D.

Post-doctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Perovskite material, Light-emitting diodes, Optics, Optoelectronics

Lain-Jong Li, Ph.D.

​​​​​​​Professor of Chemical Science

Lan Zhao

Research Technician

Laura Falivene, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Homogeneous catalysts1, DFT, theoretical chemistry

Leilei Xu,Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Zeolites, Metal oxides, Metal cluster, Core-shell materials, Hollow nanomaterials

Leiming Guo, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Polymers, membranes

Lera Shepard

​Ph.D. Student

Liang Cai, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Materials modeling

Lieven Gevers, Ph.D.

​Lab Manager

Research Interests: Heterogeneous and homogenous catalysts, high throughput technologies, reactor design, membrane technology, microreactors

Liga Stegenburga

​Lab Technician

Liliana Panarone

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Catalyst deactivation and carbon nanotubes synthesis

Linga Reddy Enakonda, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrogen production, Hydrocarbon reforming, CO2 utilization, Air pollutants mitigation, Novel material synthesis and design

Luis Miguel Azofra, Ph.D.

​​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​In-silico catalyst design, reaction mechanisms, Heterogeneous catalysis, Homogeneous Catalysis, Theoretical frontier sciences

Lujain- Alrais

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Surface Chemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis

Maarten G. Goesten, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Maha A. Alrefai Aljuhani

​Ph.D. Student

Maha Alhaddad

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organometallics especially organosilicon

Mahmoud Ibrahim, Ph.D

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Nanoparticles1, catalysis, Heterogenous, Energy

Maksim Sysoev

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Biomedicine, synthetic biology, molecular biology, biosensors

Malvina Vogler

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Mechanism of microbial electroactivity, Biological carbon capture and conversion

Manoj Kumar Gangwar, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Synthesis of Metal alkyl Complexes, Grafting on Mesoporous Zeolite Material, Application to Refining Processes

Manoj V. Mane, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Computational Chemistry, Organometallic chemistry, Investigation of Reaction Mechanisms, Small molecule activation

Manuel Ariza

Ph.D. Student

Maolin Zhang, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Inorganic synthesis, electrochemical CO2 reduction

Maram Bokhari

Master Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Zeolites, kinetics

Marram Andijani

Master Student

Research Interests: catalysis, Zeolites

Marwan Alamro

Ph.D. Student

Megalamane S. Bootharaju, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nanoparticles, nanoclusters, size- and structure-control, catalysis

Mei-Hui Huang

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Organometallic chemistry

Mekan Vepayev

Master Student

Research Interests: catalysis, Pincer Chemistry, C-H Functionalization

Merfat M. Alsabban

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Electrochemistry, HER, OER

Ming-Hui Chiu, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Mohammad Al Rebh

Master Student

Research Interests: catalysis, kinetics

Mohammad Alabdullah

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: reaction engineering, Heterogeneous catalysis, Nanoparticles, kinetics

Mohammad J Alhilaly

​Ph. D. Student

Mohammed Abdullah S Al Tarrah

Research Technician

Research Interests: Crude Oil, Light Olefins, Aspen Plus, CO2 Capture, CO2 reduction

Mohammed Alalouni

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Mesoporous silica, Zeolites, catalysis, metathesis, dimerization, natural gas, petrochemicals

Mohammed Alsindi

Master Student

Research Interests: Catalysis improvement, Optimization

Mohammed R. Al Alouni

Master Students

Research Interests: Mesoporous silica, Zeolites, Metal Organic Frameworks1, catalysis, Metathesis Reaction, Dimerization Reaction, Cracking Reactions, natural gas, Petrochemical conversion

Mohnnad Hussin Alabsi

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Waste Utilization (CO2 and plastic) to value added and upgraded chemicals through heterogenous catalysis, utilizing nano materials for waste stream treatment

Mona Almaghrabi

MS/Ph.D. Student

Mona S. Aldossary

​Ph.D. Student

Moussab Harb, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Density Functional Theory (DFT), Computational Quantum Physical Chemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis, ​Photocatalysis, Optoelectronics, Materials Science

Mrudul Thaliyil Puthiyaveettil

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Polymers, catalysis

Muhammad Naufal Lintangpradipto

Ph.D. student

Research Interests: perovskite single crystal, polycrystalline perovskite, solar cell, AFM-raman spectroscopy

Muhammad Qureshi

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Photocatalysis1, water splitting, hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions, solar energy, semiconductor, renewable energy

Muralirajan Krishnamoorthy, Ph.D

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: Transition-metal-catalyzed reactions, Photo-redox reactions, C-H activation reactions

Murtada H. Alsalman

Master Student

Mustafa Caglayan

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, reaction engineering, energy and environment

Nacera Himeur

Communication Specialist

Nadeem Qaiser, Ph.D.

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: FEM modeling, Nano/micro mechanics, Flexible sensors, actuators and energy storage devices

Nasser Mohammed Sharahili

Master Student

Research Interests: Living/controlled radical polymerization

Nedah Alkattan

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Polymerization, Polyhomologation

Nikita Kolobov

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Photocatalysis

Ning Wang, Ph.D

​​​​​​​​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Zeolites, catalysis

Noor Albarbari

Master Student

Research Interests: Polymers, Nanotechnology, Analytical Chemistry

Norah Aljeban

​Master Student

Research Interests: Polymers Synthesis

Nouf Al Jabri

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical engineering1, Nanotechnology, Reservoir engineering, EOR applications

Oleksii Pustovarenko

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Catalyst shaping, Material Science, crystal design, X-ray and neutron diffraction techniques, spectroscopy, 3D Printing

Pai-Chun Wei, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Panagiotis Bilalis, Ph.D.

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: Ring Opening polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides, Anionic Polymerization1, Surface initiated Polymerization

Pavlo Nikolaienko, Ph.D.

​Research Scientist

Research Interests: Organic Electrochemistry, flow chemistry, Organic Synthesis, catalysis, Material Science

Pibo Liu, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Living anionic polymerization, synthetic method, Sequence-defined polymer, Functionalized polymer

Pradeep Kumar Doggali, Ph.D.

​​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Surface Science and Catalysis, Shape controlled synthesis of hierarchically nanoporous materials for gas phase reactions, Applications of Green Chemistry, Pilot Scale Studies

Pradip Das, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Synthetic Models, Reactivity, Electrochemistry, spectroscopy

Qi Xiong

Biotech lab assistant Prof. Magnus group

Research Interests: Biotechnology

Qing Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Alkyne-alkyne coupling, Graphdiyne, Graphdiyne analogues

Quaid Johar Virpurwala

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: computational fluid dynamics, Microkinetic Modelling, Activation & Deactivation of Catalyst

Ram Karan, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Sustainability, Extremophiles, halophiles, thermophiles, psychrophiles, extremozymes, bioengineering, gas vesicle nanoparticles, vaccines

Rawan Alshehri

Master Student

Research Interests: Inorganic catalysis

Reem Al-Shareef

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Surface Organometallic chemistry (SOMC), Heterogeneous catalysis, Nanomaterial

Reem D. Alghamdi

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Polymer synthesis

Renwu Huang, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Copper cluster, Metal-organic framework, Cluster-based MOF

Rong-rong Jiang

​Lab Technician

Ruofan Sun

​Ph.D. Student

Ruzal Sitdikov, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Sam Mathew, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Enzyme discovery, biocatalysis and biotransformation

Samir Barman, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Homogeneous and Heterogeneous catalysis, Organic and Organometallic Synthesis, Development of Metal-Organic Materials for Gas Storage and Chemical Sensing Applications, etc.

Samy Ould-Chikh, Ph.D.

Staff Engineer - Operando

Research Interests: Photo-catalysis, Electrochemistry, X-ray absorption spectroscopy, Powder XRD, TEM

Sandeep K. Sharma, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Anionic Polymerization, Mechano Polymers, Donor-acceptor Polymers

Sandeep Kumar Mishra

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Surface Organometalic Chemistry, metathesis, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy

Sandeep Suryabhan Gholap, Ph.D

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: hydrogenation, CO2 utilization, Transition Metal Catalyzed Reaction, Green Chemistry

Sandra Patricia Gonzalez Lopez

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Materials chemistry, Nanomaterials, Optoelectronics, physical chemistry of surfaces

Sandra Ramirez Cherbuy

Communication Specialist

Sanjay R. Lolage, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: surface organometallic chemistry, Functionalized alkane metathesis, CO2 Conversion, Heterogeneous catalysis, Hydrogenation/Dehydrogenation

Santosh Kavitake, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: catalysis, Organic Synthesis

Sara Durini, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Inorganic synthesis, Material chemistry, Design and development of catalytically and photophysically active materials

Sarah Almahdali

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Polymerization, selectivity, micellar chemistry, surfactants, ring-opening metathesis-polymerization

Sathiyamoorthy Murugesan , Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Porous material, Surface Chemistry, catalysis

Sergey Kozlov, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Computational chemistry1, Heterogeneous catalysis, DFT, Materials modeling, Nanotechnology

Shaden Albahrani

Master Student

Shahaji Gaikwad, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: catalytic olefin polymerizations , catalytic oligomerization

Shao-Chi Lee, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Photoredox Catalysis, Organic Synthesis, Nickel Catalysis

Shashank Sakleshpur Nagaraja, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Detailed mechanism development, Application of AI to fuel design, Sustainable Energy Technologies

Sheikha Lardhi,Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: DFT, Material Science, optoelectronic properties, Hybrid Functional, Surface Chemistry, Chemistry, transport properties

Shulin Chen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: in situ TEM, Beam sensitive materials, Energy storage and conversion, Structure-property relationships

Simil Thomas, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Sivaranjani Srinivasan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Porous materials, High temperature vapor phase reactions​

Sk Riyajuddin, Ph.D

Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Electrocatalyst, Oxygen Evolution Reaction, water splitting, hydrogen evolution, Energy Storage

Srivani Sadurla

Event Coordinator

Stefan Grotzinger

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: biochemistry, Extremophiles, microbiology, Biocatalysis, proteins, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, bioreactors, Crystallography

Sudipta Chatterjee, Ph. D.

​​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Small molecule activation, Electrocatalysis, spectroscopy, reaction mechanisms, DFT studies

Sudipta De, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral fellow

Research Interests: Material chemistry, heterogenous catalysis, single-site catalysis, CO2 Conversion

Sujan Mondal, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Nanoporous- Materials, Gas Storage, Heterogeneous catalysis, Environmental Remediation, ​CO2 capture and conversion

Sultan Alsalman

Process Specialist in Prof. Gascon group

Research Interests: Process Improvement and Optimization, reactor design, Process Control

Sumesh Kureppadathu Raman, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Organometallic chemistry, Polymers Synthesis, Polymerization

Taslim Melliti

MS/Ph.D. student

Research Interests: Organic Synthesis, organometallic compounds, catalysis

Thaksen Vasant Jadhav, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Polymers, Dynamic covalent chemistry, Circular economy, Vitrimers

Thijs Wuijster

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Biocatalysis, Protein Engineering, Molecular Biotechnology, mass spectrometry

Thomas Machold

Senior Research Collaboration Specialist / Center Liaison Officer

Tuiana Shoinkhorova

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Materials chemistry, zeolite, Crude Oil, synthesis and functionalization

Valentin Rodionov, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Chemical Science

Research Interests: Catalytic micelles and nanoparticles, Physical organic chemistry (reaction mechanisms, reactivity and kinetics), Chemoinformatics and chemical ontologies, Supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly

Valmik Shankar Shinde, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Transition metal catalysis, C-H Functionalization, Enantioselective co-operative catalysis

Vikash Kumar Ravi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Perovskites crystal and nanoparticles, solar cells, Light-emitting diodes

Vincent Tung, Ph.D.

​Associate Professor of Material Science and Engineering

Research Interests: ​2D Soft Active Materials (SAMs), Three Dimensionality In 2D SAMs, High Throughput Nanoprocessing of Printable Hybrid Photovoltaics

Wei Wang, Ph.D

​Postdoctoral Fellows

Research Interests: Material chemistry, Heterogeneous catalysis, CO2 Conversion, Reactor engineering

Wei Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Wiebke Wackerow

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, Catalyst design, C-H Activation, reaction engineering, mesoporous materials, NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, ICP analysis

Won Suk Jung,Ph.D

Postdoctoral Fellow

Xian-zheng Meng

Business Administrator

Xiaofei Zhang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Xiaopeng Zheng, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Physical chemistry of semiconductor materials, Semiconductor optoelectronic devices

Xie Yaqiang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow​

Research Interests: Porous organic materials, OER

Xijun Deng

​Administrative Assistant

Xin Wang, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Ring-opening polymerization, Polyhomologation, Living/Controlled polymerization, Complex Macromolecular Architecture

Xiulin Yang, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: water splitting, CO2 reduction, Fuel cells, Water treatment

Xuan Wei

​Ph.D. Student

Yahya Alzahrany

​Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Anionic Polymerization1, Complex Macromolecular Architecture

Yerrayya Attada, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Hydroprocessing, Density Functional Theory (DFT), Microkinetic Modelling, reactor design

Yichen Cai

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Functional materials, flexible devices, CVD growth

Yichen Cai, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Yi-Cing Li

Business Administrator

Yingqiang Wu, Ph.D.

Post-doctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Lithium ion battery, Lithium Sulfur battery, Electrode materials

Yogesh Patil, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: ​Polymer chemistry, Polymeric Micelles, Controlled Radical Polymerization, Fluoropolymers, etc.

Yu Han, Ph.D.

​​​Professor of Chemical Science

Research Interests: Synthesis of nanoporous and nanostructured materials, resolution of their structures and the development of novel applications for these materials in catalysis, separation, adsorption, sensing and lasers

Yu Jiang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Organic Synthesis, Complex Macromolecular Architecture, Polyhomologation

Yuanlong Shao, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Yuheng Zhou, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Machine learning, photothermal catalysis

Yunlong Hou, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Polymers, MOFs, Organic Synthesis

Yury Lebedev, Ph.D

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Organometallic chemistry, asymmetric transition metals and organocatalysis

Yury Minenkov, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Physical Chemistry, theoretical chemistry, Computational chemistry1, Molecular Modelling, Mathematical Modelling, Programming

Yuxuan Shang

MS/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: SACs, NRR

Yu-Ying Yang, Ph.D.

Posdoctoral Fellow

Zainab Alyousef

Remote Consultant - Data Solutions Specialist

Zhaohui Liu

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: catalysis, zeolite, Methanol to Hydrocarbons Reactions

Zhaolai Chen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Materials modeling

Zhen Zhang, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Polyhomologation, Polyethylene, living polymerization

Zheng Yang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: 2D Materials, Perovskites

Zhennan Wu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Metal nanoclusters, Perovskites crystal and nanoparticles, Self-assembly

Zhifang Wu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Former Faculty

  • ​Jorg Eppinger, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)
  • Jr-Hau He, Ph.D. (Associate Professor)
  • Kazuhiro Takanabe, Ph.D. (Professor)
  • Lain-Jong Li, Ph.D. (Professor)
  • Valentin Rodionov, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)
  • Vicent Tung, Ph.D. (Associate Professor)
  • Yu Han, Ph.D. (Professor)

 

Former Research Staff

  • Abou-Hamad edy, Ph.D. Research Engineer
  • Douaa Hamed (Lab Technician)
  • Haibo Zhu, Ph.D. (Research Scientist)
  • Isidoro Morales Osorio , Ph.D. (Research Technician)
  • Jeremie Pelletier ( Lab Manager)
  • Jing Fan (Lab Technician)
  • Lu Zhou
  • Lan Zhao (Research Technician)
  • Linjie Su (Lab Technician)
  • Rong-rong Jiang (Lab Technician)

Research Scientist

  • Chen Zhu, Ph.D.
  • Huaifeng Li, Ph.D.
    • Jun Pan, Ph.D.
    • Muralirajan Krishnamoorthy, Ph.D.
    • Pavlo Nikolaienko, Ph.D.
    • Ram Karan, Ph.D.
    • Sergey Kozlov, Ph.D.
    • Xiulin Yang, Ph.D.
    • Yuanlong Shao, Ph.D.
    • Yichen Cai, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Fellows

    • Abdesslem Jedidi, Ph.D.                                                     
    • Abhishek Dutta Chowdhury,Ph.D.
    • Akshaya K Samal, Ph.D.
    • Anatoly Peshkov, Ph.D.
    • Athira Cheruvelil, Ph.D.
    • Chaochao Yue, Ph.D.
    • Chaojie Cui, Ph.D.
    • Changguang Yao, Ph.D.
    • Chinmoy K. Hazra, Ph.D.
    • Dandan Zhang, Ph.D.
    • Diego Zapater Bes, Ph.D.
    • Eleonora Fava, Ph.D.
    • Eva Pump, Ph.D.
    • Fazal Raziq, Ph.D.
    • Gabriel Buchel, Ph.D.
    • Gangaiah Mettela,Ph.D.
    • Hong Wang, Ph.D.
    • Hassan Ait Ahsaine, Ph.D.
    • Ida Autiero, Ph.D.
    • Janet Chakkamadathil Mohandas, Ph.D.
    • Jung-Hyun Park, Ph.D.
    • Jinsong Hu, Ph.D.
    • Jie Chen, Ph.D.
    • Kwangjae Lee, Ph.D.
    • Karthik Peramaiya, Ph.D.
    • Kushal Deepak Bhatte​,Ph.D.
    • Luis Miguel Azofra Mesa
    • Liangjin Xu, Ph.D.
    • ​Manbo Li, Ph.D.
    • Michael Kelly, Ph.D.
    • Mannathan Subramaniyan, Ph.D.
    • Manas Bhunia, Ph.D.
    • Niladri Maity, Ph.D.
    • Olga Gladkovskaya, Ph.D.
    • Raju Dey, Ph.D.
    • Sai Vikrama Chaitanya vummaleti, Ph.D.
    •  Somphonh Peter Phivilay, Ph.D.
    • Sandeep Kumar Mishra, Ph.D.
    • Shao-Chi Lee, Ph.D.
    • Stefania Evoli, Ph.D.
    • Shixiong Min, Ph.D.
    • Srikanth Pedireddy, Ph.D.
    • Shashank Sakleshpur Nagaraja, Ph.D.
    • Tunc Deniz, Ph.D.
    • Tianyou Chen, Ph.D.
    • Wei Zhao, Ph.D.
    • Won Suk Juang, Ph.D.
    • Xuechao Liu, Ph.D.
    • Xiufang wang, Ph.D.
    • Yuan Wang, Ph.D.
    • Yunfei Cai, Ph.D.
    • Yupeng Pan, Ph.D.
    • Yuri Lebedev, Ph.D.
    • Yogesh Raghunath Patil, Ph.D.
    • Zhaolai Chen, Ph.D.

    Ph.D. Students

    • Adrian Hol, Ph.D
    • Arwa Makki, Ph.D.
    • Adrian Hohl, Ph.D.
    • Amal A. Baqais, Ph.D.
    • Abdullah Dakhi, Ph.D.
    • Azimet Karluk, Ph.D.
    • Baraa Werghi, Ph.D.
    • Batian Chen, Ph.D.
    • Bilel Hamzaoui, Ph.D.
    • Bedour E. Al-Sabban, Ph.D.
    • Chao Guan, Ph.D.
    • Dalal Noureldine, Ph.D.
    • Duanxing Li, Ph.D.
    • Ding-Jier Yuan, Ph.D.
    • Eleanor Ang Pei Ling, Ph.D.
    • Gabriel Jeantelot, Ph.D.
    • Hind Al-Johani, Ph.D.
    • Haleema Alamri, Ph.D.
    • Hsin-Hua Huang, Ph.D. 
    • Israa Salem Al-Rowaihi, Ph.D.
    • Ibrahim Dursun
    • Keisuke Obata, Ph.D.
    • Liliana Panarone, Ph.D.
    • Miguel Dinis Veloso Guerreiro, Ph.D.
    • Maha Al Haddad, Ph.D.
    • Muhammad Qureshi, Ph.D.
    • Muhammad Naufal Lintangpradipto, Ph.D.
    • Nawal alhajri, Ph.D.
    • Nazeeha Alkayal, Ph.D.
    • Noor Almana, Ph.D.
    • Nouf Al Jabri, Ph.D.
    • Nikita Kolobo, Ph.D.
    • Oleksii Pustovarenko, Ph. D.
    • Quaid Johar Samun Virpurwala, Ph.D.
    • Reem Al-Shareef, Ph.D.
    • Reem Alshumrani, Ph.D.
    • Sarah Almahdali, Ph.D.
    • Sheikha Lardhi, Ph.D.
    • Stefan Grotzinger, Ph.D.
    • Tatsuya Shinagawa, Ph.D.

    Master Students

    • Abdulaziz Khan
    • Abdulelah Qahtan
    • Amer Alabd
    • Alexandra Vancea
    • Ali Hamieh
    • Khalid F. Alahmadi
    • Kanav Kalra
    • Mram Alyami
    • Mohammad Al Rebh
    • Salha E. Alotaibi


    Former Administration

    • Ann Bauwens (Executive Secretary)
    • Jiao Qiu (Business Administrator)
    • Wenwen Zhu(Administrative Assistant)
    • Xijun Deng(Administrative Assistant)
    • Xianzheng Meng(Business Administrator)
    • Yi-Cing Li (Business Administrator)