Principal Investigator

Prof. Ping Liu

Dr. Ping Liu is a Professor of Nanoengineering and the Director of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UCSD. Prior to joining the Jacobs School faculty, Professor Liu was a Program Director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), where he initiated and managed research programs in energy storage for electric vehicles and thermal management technologies to improve building energy efficiency. He was the manager of the Energy Technology Department at HRL Laboratories (an industrial lab jointly owned by GM and Boeing) and was a research staff member with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Professor Liu received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Fudan University in China. He was a Distinguished Inventor in multiple years at HRL and won an R&D 100 award in 2009 for a battery technology developed at NREL.

Scientist

Dr. Jianbin Zhou

Education:

Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Science & Technology of China

B.S. in Chemistry, Northeastern University

Research Interests: Solid-state Li-S batteries, Li metal anode


Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Shen Wang

Education:

Ph.D. in Nanoengineering, UC San Diego

M.S. in Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

B.S. in Chemistry, Peking University

Research Interests: Li sulfur batteries

Dr. Gayea Hyun 

Education:

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST

Research Interests: Li-ion batteries, Li-gas (O2, SO2) batteries, porous electrodes

Dr. Nimrod Harpak

Education:

Ph.D in Chemistry, Tel Aviv University

B.S. in Chemistry and Biology, Tel Aviv University

Research Interests: Li-Sulfur batteries, Li metal batteries

Dr. Zeyu Hui

Education:

Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Colmbia University.

B.S. in Material Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Research Interests: Li-metal batteries, continuum modelling

Dr. Ke Zhou

Education:

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Xiamen University

B.S. in Chemistry, Xinjiang University

Research Interests: Oxide cathode with high energy density, Solid-state electrolytes, polymer electrolytes, Li metal anode, in-situ characterization techniques

Graduate Students

Charles Soulen

Education:

B.S. Physics at William and Mary

Research Interests: Solid state electrolytes, polymer electrolytes, Li metal batteries

Qiushi Miao

Education:

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Research Interests: Li-sulfur batteries, Li-metal separators

Emma Hopkins

Education:

B.A. in Chemistry, Binghamton University

Research Interests: nanomaterials, interfacial analysis, sustainable energy production and storage, high-voltage electrolytes

Shijie Feng

Education:

B.S. in Material Chemistry, Sun Yat-sen University

Research Interests: Nanoporous metals

Haichen Lin

Education:

B.S. at Department of Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University

Research Interests: Li-ion Batteries, all solid state Batteries

Mengchen Liu

Education:

B.S. in Chemistry, Nankai University

B.E. in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University

M.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut

Research Interests: solid state electrolyte, solid state batteries, lithium ion batteries

Jenny Nicolas

Education:

BS/MS in Chemistry, University of Edinburgh

Research Interests: Battery safety, renewable energy integration

Nick Solan

Education:

BS/MS in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests: Li-ion batteries, computational modelling


Lee Elmont

Education:

BS in Chemistry, University of California, San Diego

Research Interests: Lithium ion batteries, sodium ion batteries, battery electrolytes and chemistries

Jaejun Lee

Education:

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University

Research Interests: Li-Sulfur batteries, Sulfide Solid-state Electrolyte


Ryan Lamkin

Education:

B.S. in Chemistry/Material Science, University of California Los Angeles

Research Interests: Metal Aqueous Electrodeposition



Undergraduate Students

Jovan Yaputra

Education:

Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego

Research Interests: Solid Oxide Electrolysis Cell

Simon danitz

Education:

Materials Physics, UC San Diego

Research Interests: Interfacial engineering, Novel sustainable battery chemistries

Jiaqi Feng

Education:

Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego

Research Interests: Lithium-Sulfur battery

Alumni

John Holoubek

Sicen Yu

Victoria Petrova

Zhaohui Liang

Junwei Gao

Myeonghwan Lee

Jessica Junghwa Hong

Haodong Liu

Zhaohui Wu

Michael Wolf

Matthew Gonzalez

Yoonjung Choi

Xing Xing

Hongyao Zhou

Dr. Yejing Li

Chris Coaty

Gyuhyeun Lee

Jason Huang

Xiujun Yue

Qizhang Yan

Liz Lee

Dr. Byoung-Sun Lee

Dr. Hee-Dae Lim

Sean Kim

Dr. Qian He

PhD Graduate

PhD Graduate

PhD Graduate

MS Graduate

MS Graduate

Postdoc

Postdoc

Project Scientist

PhD Graduate

Visiting Scholar

PhD Graduate

Undergraduate student

PhD Graduate

Postdoc

PhD Graduate

Visiting graduate student

Undergraduate student

PhD Graduate

Masters student

Masters student

Postdoc

Postdoc

Graduate student

Postdoc

Postdoc in Yi Cui’s Research Lab, Standford University

Postdoc in Jun Liu’s research Lab, University of Washington


PhD in Feng Lin’s research group, Virginia Tech

PhD in Fang’s research group, Michigan State University

Korea Research Institute of ChemicalTechnology, Daejeon, Korea


CTO of TYFAST, San Diego




Graduate student at UC Berkeley

Engineer at Exponent

Assistant Professor at University of Tokyo

Scientist at Argonne National Lab

Principle Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman

PhD student at Hanyang University

PhD student at Cornell University

Postdoc at University of Pennsylvania

PhD student at Prof. Luo’s Lab (UCSD)

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Professor at Dankook University

Korea Institute of Science and Technology

LG Chem

Qual Diamond Hi-tech Corporation