teerapat.itsoponpan@northwestern.edu
Teerapat (Palm) Itsoponpan is a Ph.D. candidate in Materials Science and Engineering at the Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), Thailand, under the supervision of Prof. Vinich Promarak. His research focuses on the development of optoelectronic devices, particularly organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), with the goal of enhancing their performance. Currently a Visiting Pre-doctoral Fellow in the Sargent Lab at Northwestern University, Teerapat (Palm) is working on the development of perovskite hybrid tandem solar cells, aiming to advance next-generation solar energy technologies.
chiunghan.chen@northwestern.edu
Chiung-Han received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan, in 2019. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering at NTU, Taiwan, under the supervision of Prof. Chu-Chen Chueh. His research primarily focuses on perovskite light-emitting diodes and optoelectronic properties of different dimensions of perovskites. Presently, he joined Sargent group as a visiting scholar with a specialized interest in all-perovskite tandem solar cells and perovskite hybrid tandem solar cells.
peihao.li@northwestern.edu
Peihao received his bachelor’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Peking University, China, where he conducted research on Na-ion batteries under the supervision of Prof. Shaojun Guo. He is currently a PhD candidate in the Sargent group, with a focus on CO2 reduction, biomass oxidation, and direct air capture.
haoyue.wan@northwestern.edu
Haoyue received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Peking University, China in 2021. He joined Sargent group in Toronto, where his research primarily focused on light-emitting diodes and perovskites. Presently, he is a visiting scholar with a specialized interest in optical spectroscopy and perovskite solar cells.
xubiaoli2028@u.northwestern.edu
Xubiao Li graduated from Tsinghua University in 2023 with a master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering. There, his research focuses on the application of optical resonators in optoelectronic devices. At Northwestern University, he joined Sargent group in conducting research on III-V colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) in the infrared region and their applications in optoelectronic devices.
ubaidkazianga2028@u.northwestern.edu
Ubaid Kazianga graduated from The College of William & Mary in 2023 with a B.S. in physics. As an undergraduate, he performed research in the lab of Mumtaz Qazilbash on spectroscopy of strongly correlated systems. Ubaid is currently interested in the semiconductor physics of perovskites and applications to devices.
QassimAlKhazal2027@u.northwestern.edu
Qassim graduated from Texas A&M university with a B.S. in chemistry, where he worked on electroless coating of nickel nanoparticles on steel pipelines. After graduation, he worked at Saudi Aramco’s Research and Development Center in Dhahran, where he focused on material characterization with various analytical techniques. Qassim’s current research focus is electrified CO2 capture and release applications.
xiangyuma2028@u.northwestern.edu
Xiangyu was born in Jinan, Shandong province. He graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2023 with a bachelor degree in Materials Processing & Control Engineering and a Master degree in Materials Science. During his school years, Xiangyu researched thermal catalysis under the guidance of Dr. Bin Shan. Currently, Xiangyu ‘s project is mainly about copper intermetallic for CO2/CO electrochemical reduction.
adityamenon2028@u.northwestern.edu
Aditya Menon graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 2021 with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. At UCSB, he worked in the McFarland Group on molten salt-mediated methane pyrolysis for clean hydrogen production. He then joined the R&D team at Boston Metal to develop the Molten Oxide Electrolysis process, a high temperature electrochemical process to decarbonize steel production. At Northwestern, he is co-advised by the Sargent and Seitz groups and is studying anodic hydrocarbon oxidation reactions to decarbonize the production of commodity chemicals.
johnweiss2028@u.northwestern.edu
John graduated from the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2021. He then completed a year of Post-Bachelors work at Los Alamos National Laboratory studying single-atom catalysts for electrochemical carbon dioxide valorization with Dr. Piotr Zelenay. Now in the Sargent Lab at Northwestern, John’s is looking to develop tandem catalyst layers for the direct reduction of carbon dioxide from capture solutions.
