Prof. Yuanjing Cai

Visiting Prof.
Cai graduated in materials science and engineering and did her Ph.D. research at the UW-Madison under the supervision of Prof. Robert West. Later on she continued working as a Research Associate at HKUST and SCUT on functional light-emitting materials in optoelectronic devices. She is currently a Professor at BUCT in Beijing city. She joined Sargent’s group as a visiting professor focusing on organic modification of CQDs applied in optoelectronic devices.

Email: yuting.luo@utoronto.ca

Yuting Luo received her Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University, P. R. China in Jan. 2021, under supervision of Prof. Bilu Liu. Her Ph.D. research focused on two-dimensional materials for mechanism study and large-current-density water splitting. She joined Sargent group in Mar. 2021 as a postdoc fellow with a research interest in electrochemical CO2 reduction.

Email: zaiwei.wang@utoronto.ca

Zaiwei received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from École polytechnique federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Anders Hagfeldt. He mainly focused on the research of perovskite materials and film preparation in photovoltaic applications previously. He joined the Sargent Group as a recipient of the Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2021. His current research interests are the development of new perovskite materials in efficient photovoltaic.

Email: yuanjunchen.chen@utoronto.ca

Yuanjun received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University in 2020, under the supervision of Prof. Yadong Li. His previous research mainly focused on the controlled synthesis and catalytic properties of single-atom catalysts and well-defined nanocatalysts. He joined the Sargent Group as a postdoc fellow in March 2021 with a research interest in the electrochemical CO2 reduction.

Yangning received her Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering in May 2021 from the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Prof. Brian Korgel. Her previous research was focused on the synthesis and characterization of metal halide perovskite nanocrystals. She joined Sargent group as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2021, and her current research is on colloidal quantum dot photodetectors.

Xiaoyan received her Ph.D. degree from the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her Ph.D. studies mainly focus on their physical and chemical properties of metal or metal oxide materials under considering the real reaction environments. She joined the Sargent group as a postdoctoral fellow in June 2021 with research interests in computational electrochemistry and CO2 reduction by using DFT and ML.

Ya-Kun received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Soochow University in 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Liang-Sheng Liao (IVGS student in Ted’s group from 2018-2020). Afterwards, he joined Sargent group as a postdoctoral fellow in 2021. Ya-Kun is currently interested in all-inorganic perovskite materials and quantum dot-based LEDs.

Oat received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from MIT in 2021, under the supervision of Prof. William A. Tisdale. His research at MIT focused on syntheses and photophysical studies of 2D hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors. He joined the Sargent lab as a postdoctoral fellow in November 2021 and his current research interests include optoelectronic materials and their device applications.

Weiyan received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in chemistry from École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland in 2021. His doctoral work, conducted under the supervision of Prof. Xile Hu, studied hydrogen oxidation electrocatalysts for hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells. He joined Sargent group in 2022 with Postdoc. Mobility fellowship from Swiss National Science Foundation. His current research interests are electrocatalytic transformation of small molecules (N2, CO2, etc)

Suhas received his doctorate in physics from the University of Oxford in 2020, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His doctoral work, conducted under Prof. Henry Snaith, studied the optoelectronic properties of perovskite semiconductors, especially for tandem photovoltaics. His bachelor’s degree in physics (highest honours) is from the Indian Institute of Science (2016). Suhas joined the Sargent group in July 2021 as a recipient of the prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship. His current research interests include photovoltaics, energy materials, and ML-aided automated materials discovery.