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
Graduate Students
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
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
Nicholas Lam
Education:
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, UCSD
Research Interests: Solid state 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
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
Education:
B.S. in Chemistry, Ewha Womans University
M.S. in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Ewha Womans University
Research Interests: Metal Aqueous Electrodeposition
Undergrad Students
Yanxiang Zeng
Education:
Pursuing B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Solid-State 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
Kawayan Saijo
Education:
Pursuing B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego
Research Interests: Li-Sulfur Batteries
Alumni
Name
Haichen Lin
Dr. Gayea Hyun
Dr. Ke Zhou
Chip Soulen
Mengchen Liu
Dr. Jianbin Zhou
Shijie Feng
Khadija Kouchi
Jiaqi Feng
Simon Danitz
Dr. Shen Wang
Dr. Nimrod Harpak
John Holoubek
Sicen Yu
Victoria Petrova
Zhaohui Liang
Junwei Gao
Dr. Myeonghwan Lee
Dr. Jessica Junghwa Hong
Dr. Haodong Liu
Zhaohui Wu
Michael Wolf
Matthew Gonzalez
Yoonjung Choi
Xing Xing
Dr. Hongyao Zhou
Dr. Yejing Li
Chris Coaty
Gyuhyeun Lee
Jason Huang
Xiujun Yue
Qizhang Yan
Dr. Liz Lee
Dr. Byoung-Sun Lee
Dr. Hee-Dae Lim
Sean Kim
Dr. Qian He
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Battery Engineer, TYFAST
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Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
Battery Engineer, TYFAST
Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
P.h.D Student, Northwestern University
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Scientist in Shierly Meng’s Research Lab, UCSD
Head of Batteries, Vocai
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Sr. Cell Test Engineer, South 8 Technologies
PhD, Feng Lin’s Lab, Virginia Tech
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Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon, Korea
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PhD Student, Jian Luo Lab, UCSD
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Professor, Dankook University
Professor, Hanyang University
LG Chem
Qual Diamond Hi-tech Corporation