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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keisuke Obata

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Electrochemistry, photocatalyst, water splitting

Khaled Alshehri

​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

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 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 Qureshi

​Ph.D. Student

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

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 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)
  • Lain-Jong Li, Ph.D. (Professor)
  • Valentin Rodionov, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)
  • Kazuhiro Takanabe, Ph.D. (Professor)
  • Jr-Hau He, Ph.D. (Associate Professor)

 

Former Research Staff

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

 

Research Scientist

   
  • Jun Pan, Ph.D.
  • Pavlo Nikolaienko, Ph.D.
  • Sergey Kozlov, Ph.D.
  • Xiulin Yang, Ph.D.
  • Yuanlong Shao, Ph.D.
  • Huaifeng Li, Ph.D.

 

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • Abdesslem Jedidi, Ph.D.                                                     
  • Abhishek Dutta Chowdhury,Ph.D.
  • Akshaya K Samal, Ph.D.
  • Chaochao Yue, Ph.D.
  • Chaojie Cui, Ph.D.
  • Dandan Zhang, Ph.D.
  • Eleonora Fava, Ph.D.
  • Eva Pump, Ph.D.
  • Janet Chakkamadathil Mohandas, Ph.D.
  • Gabriel Buchel, Ph.D.
  • Ida Autiero, Ph.D.
  • Jung-Hyun Park, Ph.D.
  • Tianyou Chen, Ph.D.
  • Zhaolai Chen, Ph.D.
  • Anatoly Peshkov, Ph.D.
  • Chinmoy K. Hazra, Ph.D.
  • Luis Miguel Azofra Mesa
  • ​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.
  • Jinsong Hu, Ph.D.
  •  Somphonh Peter Phivilay, Ph.D.
  • Sandeep Kumar Mishra, Ph.D.
  • Hassan Ait Ahsaine, Ph.D. 
  • Changguang Yao, Ph.D.
  • Kwangjae Lee, Ph.D.
  • Stefania Evoli, Ph.D.
  • Shixiong Min, Ph.D.
  • Tunc Deniz, Ph.D.
  • Srikanth Pedireddy, 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.
  • Kushal Deepak Bhatte​,Ph.D.
  • Liangjin Xu, Ph.D.
  • Gangaiah Mettela,Ph.D.
  • Yogesh Raghunath Patil, Ph.D.
  • Jie Chen, Ph. D.


Ph.D. Students

  • Adrian Hol, Ph.D
  • Arwa Makki, 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.
  • 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
  • Reem Alshumrani, Ph.D.
  • Eleanor Ang Pei Ling, Ph.D.
  • Adrian Hohl, Ph.D.
  • Baraa Werghi, Ph.D.
  • Amal A. Baqais, Ph.D.
  • Ding-Jier Yuan, Ph.D.
  • Miguel Dinis Veloso Guerreiro, Ph.D.
  • Nawal alhajri, Ph.D.
  • Nazeeha Alkayal, Ph.D.
  • Noor Almana, Ph.D.
  • Nouf Al Jabri, Ph.D.
  • Reem Al-Shareef, Ph.D.
  • Sarah Almahdali, Ph.D.
  • Sheikha Lardhi, Ph.D.
  • Stefan Grotzinger, Ph.D.
  • Tatsuya Shinagawa, Ph.D.
  • Maha Al Haddad, Ph.D.
  • Muhammad Qureshi, Ph.D.
  • Keisuke Obata, Ph.D.
  • Oleksii Pustovarenko, Ph. D.


Master Students


  • Abdulaziz Khan
  • Alexandra Vancea
  • Ali Hamieh
  • Mram Alyami
  • Kanav Kalra



Former Administration

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