People

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. 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. Jiaxu Zhang

Education:

Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology

B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology

Research Interests:  Low-Pressure All-Solid-State Batteries, Solid-State Electrolytes

Dr. Sungho Kim

Education:

Ph.D. in Chemistry, Pohang University of Science and Technology

M.S./B.S. in School of Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)

Research Interests:  Electrolytes, Circular battery chemistry


Dr. Guohuang Kang

Education:

Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University

B.S. in Polymer Materials and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology 

Research Interests:  Lithium battery electrolyte design


Dr. Kaier Shen

Education:

Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University

M.S./B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University

Research Interests:  All-Solid-State Lithium Metal Batteries; Sulfur Cathodes 

Graduate Students

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


Qiushi Miao

Education:

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

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

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

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

Xinru Wu

Education:

B.S. in Composite Materials and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology

M.S. in Material Science and Engingeering, Tsinghua University

Research Interests: electrolyte engineering, energy materials

Undergrad Students

Kawayan Saijo

Education:

Pursuing B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Research Interests:  Li-Sulfur Batteries

Alex Xiong

Education:

A.S. in Biological Sciences, De Anza College, Pursuing B.S. in Chemical engineering, UC San Diego

Research Interests:  Fe-ion batteries

Jaimie Deng

Education:

2nd year undergraduate chemical engineering student

Research Interests:  Aqueous batteries


Alumni

Project Scientist

  • Dr. Haodong Liu: Liu Group Project Scientist went onto CTO of TYFAST, San Diego

Postdoc

  • Dr. Wei Zhang: Liu Group Postdoc went onto Professor, Central South University

  • Dr. Gayea Hyun: Liu Group Postdoc went onto Research Chemist, Rio Tinto

  • Dr. Jianbin Zhou: Liu Group Postdoc went onto Professor, University of Science and Technology of China

  • Dr. Shen Wang: Liu Group Postdoc went onto Project Scientist, LESC, UCSD

  • Dr. Nimrod Harpak: Liu Group Postdoc went onto Head of Batteries, Vocai

  • Dr. Jessica Junghwa Hong: Liu Group Postdoc went onto Battery Cell Engineer, Google

  • Dr. Byoung-Sun Lee: Liu Group Postdoc went onto Professor, Dankook University

  • Dr. Hee-Dae Lim: Liu Group Postdoc went onto Professor, Hanyang University

  • Sean Kim: Liu Group Postdoc went onto LG Chem

PhD Graduate

  • Haichen Lin: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Battery Engineer, TYFAST

  • Chip Soulen: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Scherrer Institute

  • Mengchen Liu: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto –

  • Shijie Feng: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Battery Engineer, TYFAST

  • John Holoubek: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Postdoc, Yi Cui’s Lab, Stanford University

  • Sicen Yu: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Postdoc, Jun Liu’s Lab, University of Washington

  • Victoria Petrova: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Sr. Cell Test Engineer, South 8 Technologies

  • Zhaohui Wu: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Scientist, Wildcat Discovery Technologies

  • Matthew Gonzalez: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Test Lead Engineer, Joby Aviation

  • Xing Xing: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Engineer, Exponent

  • Hongyao Zhou: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Assistant Professor, University of Tokyo

  • Yejing Li: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Scientist, Argonne National Lab

  • Chris Coaty: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Principle Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman

  • Xiujun Yue: Liu Group PhD Graduate went onto Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania

Masters

  • Zhaohui Liang: Liu Group MS Graduate went onto PhD, Feng Lin’s Lab, Virginia Tech

  • Junwei Gao: Liu Group MS Graduate went onto PhD, Michigan State University

  • Jiaqi Feng: Liu Group Master student went onto P.h.D Student, Northwestern University

  • Qizhang Yan: Liu Group Masters student went onto PhD Student, Jian Luo Lab, UCSD

  • Liz Lee: Liu Group Masters student went onto Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

  • Dr. Qian He: Liu Group MS Graduate went onto Qual Diamond Hi-tech Corporation

Undergraduate

  • Simon Danitz: Liu Group Undergrad went onto P.h.D Student, University of Washington

  • Yoonjung Choi: Liu Group Undergraduate student went onto Graduate Student, UC Berkeley

  • Jason Huang: Liu Group Undergraduate student went onto PhD Student, Cornell University

Visiting Scholar

  • Khadija Kouchi: Liu Group Visiting Scholar went onto P.h.D Student, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

  • Gyuhyeun Lee: Liu Group Visiting Scholar went onto PhD Student, Hanyang University

  • Michael Wolf: Liu Group Visiting Scholar went onto Doctoral Student, BMW Group