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Principal Investigator:

Qing Zhao

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, 2018-2021

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Computational Science and Engineering, M.I.T., 2018
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University & Purdue University, 2012

Selected awards: 2024 NSF CAREER Award

2024 ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award

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Postdoctoral Research Associate:

Manish Kothakonda

Postdoc since 2023

Ph.D. in Physics, Tulane University

Research: methane activation, CO2 reduction, single atom alloy

Graduate Students:

Colin Gallagher

PhD student since 2023

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Penn State University

Research: CO2 reduction, single atom catalyst

Chengyu Zhou

PhD student since 2023

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology

Research: lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction reaction

Connor Fawcett

PhD student since 2024

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Villanova University

Research: embedded correlated wavefucntion theory

Caroline Leduc

MS student since 2024

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University

Research: waste plastic upcycling

Undergraduate Students:

Sarah LaCroix

Undergraduate student since 2023

Research: single atom alloy, ammonia decomposition

Alumni:

Carmen Cheng (2022-2024), Undergraduate student at NEU

Pax Makhura (2022-2023), MS student with thesis

Wali Siddiqui (2022-2023), Undergraduate student at NEU

Tanishka Kucheria (2022), Undergraduate student at NEU

Tyler Arnold (2022), Undergraduate student via REU-POWER program