Dr. Wei You

Principal Investigator
wyou@unc.edu

Dr. Liang Yan

Research Assistant Professor
lyan1@live.unc.edu

Dr. Joji Tanaka

Research Assistant Professor
joji@email.unc.edu

Dr. Sungwoo Jung

Postdoctoral Scholar
sungwoo@unc.edu

Dr. Jiyeon Oh

Postdoctoral Scholar
jiyeonoh@unc.edu

Dr. Xiaowei Zhong

Postdoctoral Scholar
xiaowei1@live.unc.edu

Dr. Yibo Shi

Postdoctoral Scholar
yiboshi@unc.edu

Dr. Fangbei Liu

Postdoctoral Scholar
fangbel@unc.edu

Dr. Seung Hyun Kim

Postdoctoral Scholar
shyunkim@unc.edu

Dr. Jordan Shanahan

Postdoctoral Scholar
jorshan@email.unc.edu

Dr. Yixin Hu

Postdoctoral Scholar
yixhu@unc.edu

Anthony Megret-Bonilla

Year 5
amegret@unc.edu

Sam Clouthier

Year 5
sclouthier@unc.edu

Camryn Gloor

Year 4
cjgloor@unc.edu

Yanlin Liu

Year 3
yanlliu@unc.edu

Andrew Tran

Year 2
andytran@unc.edu

Luigi Alde

Year 1
lgalde@unc.edu

Luyu Li

Undergraduate Student

Rome Mardiev

Undergraduate Student

Alumni

Graduate Students

Justin Neu, PhD 2025 (Commercialization Manager, Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Kyle Cushman, PhD 2023 (Polymer Application Scientist, Promerus)

Stephanie Samson, PhD 2022 (Akzo Nobel)

Jeromy Rech, PhD 2021 (Assistant Professor, UNC Asheville)

Ian Vonwald, PhD 2019 (Grants & Contract Administrator, Duke University)

Nicole Bauer, PhD 2019 (Product & Business Development Manager, Aldon Corporation)

Jun Hu, PhD 2018 (Analytical Chemist, Eastman)

David Dirkes, PhD 2018 (Scientist, BD)

Huamin Hu, PhD 2018 (Senior Process Chemist, Eastman)

Elizabeth Keenan, PhD 2018 (Process Development Engineer, CREE)

Qianqian Zhang, PhD 2017 (Optical Polymers Scientist, Eastman)

Mary Allison Kelly, PhD 2017 (Rowan University)

Sam Anderson, PhD 2016 (Academic Tutor – ASPSA and UNC & Academic Editor – AJE/ResearchSquare)

Wentao Li, PhD 2015 (Optical Film Engineer, Apple)

Josh Yablonski, PhD 2015 (Senior Consultant, Veeva Systems)

Robert Bruce, PhD 2015 (Senior Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins University)

Travis LaJoie, PhD 2015 (Senior Staff Engineer, Intel Corporation)

Jason Dyke, PhD 2014 (Teacher, University School)

Adam Alman, MS 2014

Rycel Uy, PhD 2013 (Audit and Assurance Senior, Deloitte)

Rui Jin, MS 2012

Andrew Stuart, PhD 2012 (Senior Scientist, Nano Biotherapeutics)

Liqiang Yang, PhD 2012 (Lead Engineer, GE Aviation)

James Blair, MS 2011 (Principle Enginner, feature[23])

Huaxing Zhou, PhD 2011 (Senior Researcher, ExxonMobil)

Sam Price, PhD 2011 (Process Engineer, Intel)

Jeremy Niskala, PhD 2010 (Senior Process Engineer, Intel)

Postdoctoral Scholars

Dr. Sungyun Son 11/2018 – 08/2021 (PhD: POSTECH, Korea)

Dr. Zhichao Cao 09/2019 – 08/2020 (PhD: Peking University, China)

Dr. Jun Hu 01/2019 – 11/2019 (PhD: UNC at Chapel Hill)

Dr. David Dirkes 07/2018 – 06/2019 (PhD: UNC Chapel Hill)

Dr. Zheng Chen 09/2018 – 12/2019 (PhD: Jilin University, China)

Dr. Alka Prasher 02/2016 – 08/2017 (PhD: University of New Hampshire)

Dr. Zhou Chen 09/2014 – 08/2015 (PhD: Shanghai Institute of Org. Chem., CAS)

Dr. Liqiang Yang 08/2012 – 10/2013 (PhD: UNC Chapel Hill)

Dr. Shengqiang Xiao 11/2006 – 08/2008 (PhD: Chinese Academy of Science)

Dr. Paul Hoertz 02/2007 – 08/2008 (PhD: Johns Hopkins University)

Undergraduate Students

Michael Angell, Class of 2026

Jack Hannon, Summer Undergraduate Student from Lehigh University

Holden Watson, Summer Undergraduate Student from Spring Hill College

Catherine Campo, Class of 2025

Benjamin Nguyen, Class of 2024

Jingxue Liu, Class of 2024

Melissa Soto, Summer Undergraduate Student from Johns Hopkins University

Noel E. Archer, Class of 2023

Adrianna Fernandez, Undergraduate Student from Georgia Institute of Technology

Parker T. Boeck, Class of 2020

Anthony M. Bonilla, Summer Undergraduate Student from University of Puerto Rico at Cayey

Spencer Bradshaw, Class of 2020

Yeojin Park, Class of 2019

Joe Kaplan, Class of 2018

Philip Todd, Class of 2018

Stephanie Liffland, Class of 2017

Dustin Sneed, Class of 2018

Brett Bowman, Class of 2016

Alexandria Pinnix, Summer Undergraduate Student from from Winthrop

Joseph Nenow, Class of 2015

Xue Sun, Summer Undergraduate Student from NUS

Emily Lam, Summer Undergraduate Student from UNC

Maggie Radack, Class of 2014

Luke Ellis, Class of 2013

Erik Thiede, Class of 2013

Matt Wilkins, Exchange Student from University of Bristol

Adam Rieth, Class of 2012

Betsy Melenbrink, Class of 2011

Phil Hamilton, Class of 2012

Michael Aubrey, Class of 2011

Matt Krattenmaker, Class of 2013

Rachel Zachary, Class of 2012

Marco Torelli, Class of 2010

Nabil Kleinhenz, Class of 2010

Kelly Jane Knight, Exchange Student from University of Bristol

Sarah Stoneking, Class of 2010

Michael Feng, Summer Undergraduate Student from Duke

Kevin Pfeuffer, Class of 2008

Rakjoon Jeon, Class of 2008