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.
Postdoctoral Researchers
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
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
Jack Holoubek
Education:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University
Research Interests: Novel Battery Chemistries, Battery Electrolytes
Victoria Petrova
Education:
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Research Interests: Conversion reactions, Nanoporous metals
Sicen Yu
Education:
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology
Research Interests: Fast-charge Anode, Electrolyte Analysis
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
Masters Students
Junwei Gao
Education:
B.S. in Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Research Interests: Li-S batteries, SPAN cathode materials
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
Valerie Amanda
Education:
Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego
Research Interests: Lithium Ion Batteries
Aidan Ross
Education:
Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego
Research Interests: Li ion batteries
Jiaqi Feng
Education:
Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego
Research Interests: Lithium-Sulfur battery
Alumni
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
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
Korea Research Institute of ChemicalTechnology (KRICT), 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