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. 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. 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
Dr. Shuangjie Tan
Education:
Ph.D in Materials, Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Science
B.S. in Chemistry, Wuhan University
Research Interests: Li-metal Batteries, Electrolytes, Simulations, Sulfur Cathode
Dr. Wenxi Wang
Education:
Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
M.S in Physical Chemistry, Xiangtan University
B.S in Applied Chemistry, Beijing University of Chemical Technology
Research Interests: Lithium-sulfur batteries (Sulfur cathode), Zn-based batteries (Organic cathode and anode protection)
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
Haichen Lin
Education:
B.S. at Department of Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University
M.S. in Nano Engineering, University of San Diego
Research Interests: Li/Na-ion Batteries, Oxide materials
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
Minji Lee
Education:
B.S. in Chemistry, Ewha Womans University
M.S. in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Ewha Womans University
Research Interests: Metal Aqueous Electrodeposition
Jaejun Lee
Education:
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University
Research Interests: Li-Sulfur batteries, Sulfide Solid-state Electrolyte
Wenlin Yan
Education:
B.S. in Material Chemistry, Nankai University
M.S. in Material Engineering, the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science
Research Interests: Lithium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries, and recycling
Master Students
Steven Huber
Education:
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, UC San Diego
Research Interests: Na-ion Batteries
Alumni
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Shijie Feng
Khadija KOUCHI
Jiaqi Feng
Simon Danitz
Shen Wang
Nimrod Harpak
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
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Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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LG Chem
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