Dr. Xiaoyan Li

xiaoyan.li@northwestern.edu

shuta.kitade@northwestern.edu

Shuta graduated with his B.E. in Nanoscience from Chiba University in 2017 and received his M.E. in Applied Physics from the University of Tokyo in 2019 under the supervision of Prof. Satoshi Ashihara. His previous research in Japan was ultrafast nonlinear optics in the mid-IR region. He joined Prof. Edward H. Sargent’s group as a visiting scholar in Sept. 2023. His focus is the perovskite optoelectronic devices and materials.

jiachenl@northwestern.edu

hyunseung.jung@northwestern.edu

Hyun Seung Jung obtained B.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), under the supervision of Prof. Jong Wook Bae. Hyun Seung joined the Sargent group as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2023. He designed various metal oxide, zeolite, and metal-organic framework (MOF) catalysts for gas-phase thermal catalysis, including CO/CO2 hydrogenation, dimethyl ether carbonylation, and methyl acetate (MA) hydrogenation for indirect ethanol production using fixed-bed and fluidized-bed reactors. His current research topics in the Sargent group include the development of catalysts for the electrochemical process, electrified CO2 capture, and the combination of thermal-electrocatalysis systems to maximize process efficiency.

hyoungwoo.kwon@northwestern.edu

Hyoungwoo Kwon received his Ph.D. degree in August 2023 from the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering under the supervision of Prof. Sang Il Seok at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea. His Ph.D. studies mainly focused on the fabrication of efficient and stable perovskite solar cells through controlling the large organic A site. He was awarded the Nurturing Next-generation Researchers grant by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). He joined the Sargent group as a postdoctoral fellow in September 2023. His current research interests include the enhanced stability of wide bandgap perovskite solar cells for multi-junction perovskite solar cells.

hyeongwoo.ban@northwestern.edu

Hyeongwoo Ban (author name is “Hyeongwoo Woo Ban”) received his Ph.D. degree in Feb. 2021, from the Department of Material and Science Engineering at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) under the supervision of Prof. Jae Sung Son. He joined the Sargent group as a postdoctoral fellow in March 2022. His current research focus is primarily on the synthesis of III-V colloidal quantum dots (CQDs) in the infrared region and the surface engineering of CQDs for CQD-based optoelectronic device applications.

zehuajie@northwestern.edu

connor.mccormick@northwestern.edu

Connor McCormick received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Pennsylvania State University under the direction of Raymond E. Schaak. His research focused on developing robust syntheses to target complex heterostructured metal chalcogenide nanoparticles. He joined the Sargent lab in 2023 as a postdoctoral fellow associated with the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN). He serves in a collaborative effort between the Mirkin and Sargent labs, focused on the combinatorial discovery of new electrocatalysts.

bei.zhou@northwestern.edu

Bei Zhou obtained the Ph.D. degree from Leibniz Institute for Catalysis (LIKAT), Germany, under the supervision of Prof. Matthias Beller in June 2023. Her Ph.D. studies focused on heterogeneous catalysis for organic synthesis for hydrogenation, amination, hydrodeoxygenation and alkylation reactions. She joined the Sargent group at Northwestern University as a postdoc fellow in October 2023, with research interests in electrocatalytic CO₂ capture and conversion.

weiyan.ni@northwestern.edu

Weiyan received his Ph.D. degree in chemistry from École Polytechnique Fédérale 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 the Sargent group in 2022 with Postdoc Mobility fellowship from Swiss National Science Foundation. His current research is focused on electrocatalytic transformation of small molecules.