Group Members

Principle Investigator

Dr. Jie Liu
George Barth Geller Professor of Chemistry
’96-’99,Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University;
Ph.D. ’96 Harvard University;
B.S. ’87, Shandong University;


Ph.D. Students

Siyuan Zhu

Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

B.S. Chemistry


Dora Geng

Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

B.S. Chemistry


Joey Offen

Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

B.S. Chemistry



Yufeng Chen

Ph.D. Candidate in Chemistry

B.S. Chemistry


Yifan Yu

Ph.D. Student in Chemistry

B.S. Chemistry


Vasishta Somayaji

Ph.D. Student in Materials Science and Engineering

Masters in Materials Science and Engineering; B.S. Biochemistry


Former Group Members

Dr. Seung-Hoon Lee

Dr. Shi He

Dr. Peter Novello

Dr. Lucy Li

Ben Howell

Qiwei Han

Christine Kim

Dong Ji

Yiwen Zhang

Dr. Xiao Zhang

Dr. Danielle E. Gorka

Dr. Jinghua Li

Dr.Gyeong Hee Lee

Jennifer K. Sedloff

Dr. Jay G. Simmons

Dr. Yingwen Cheng

Yue Cai

Dr. Jinhyun Cho

Dr. Sungwoo Yang

Dr. Ye Hou

Dr. Thomas P. McNicholas

Dr. Dongning Yuan

Dr. Michael Woodson

Dr. Cheng Qian

Dr. Hang Qi

Dr. Lei An

Dr. Qiang Fu

Dr.Benjamin Maynor

Dr. Chenguang Lu

Xinyu Cai

Dr. Bo Zheng