PI: Professor Yosuke Kanai
Department of Chemistry
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email : ykanai_at_unc.edu
Yosuke received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Princeton University in 2006 after completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He was a BNNI Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, and he subsequently worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Lawrence Fellow in Condensed Matter and Materials Division prior to joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Dr. Jianhang Xu (Sr. Post-doctoral Researcher)
Dr. Chris Shepard (Post-doctoral Researcher)
Dr. Aaron Schankler (Post-doctoral Researcher)
John Bost (PhD Student)
Thomas Carney (PhD Student)
Victor Sandoval-Cardoza (PhD Student)
Nicholas Boyer (Undergraduate Student)
Songrui Liu (Visiting Undergrad. Student from Peking Univ. )
Alumni:
Dr. Ruiyi Zhou (PhD student, 2024, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland).
Dr. Sampreeti Bhattacharya (PhD student, 2024, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory).
Kiichi Ogata (Undergraduate Exchange Student, 2023-2024, continuing undergraduate study at Keio Univ., Japan)
Dr. Yi Yao (PhD student, Post-doctoral researcher, Research Scientist 2012-2021, subsequently Research scientist at The NOMAD Laboratory at the FHI-MPG and IRIS-Adlershof of HU, Berlin, Germany)
Dr. Jian Cheng Wong (PhD student, 2022, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences).
Dr. Ruyi Song (Visiting PhD student from Duke, 2023, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at Stanford).
Aidan Thomas (REU student, 2023, continuing undergraduate degree at MidAmerican Nazarene Univ.)
Kiran Lucas (REU student, 2022, continuing undergraduate study at Brown Univ.)
Lily Al-Omari (Undergraduate student, 2020-2021, continuing Chemistry degree at UNC)
Harvey Liu (Undergraduate student, 2020-2021, subsequently MS student in Computer Science at UNC)
Dr. Dillon C. Yost (PhD student, 2019, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at MIT).
Dr. Garnett Liu (Visiting PhD student from Duke, 2019, subsequently Senior researcher at TSMC).
Dr. Lesheng Li (PhD student, 2018, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University).
Sam Slattery (Researcher, 2017-2018, subsequently PhD student at Virginia Tech.)
Philip Straughn (Undergraduate student, 2015-2017, subsequently employed at UNC Medical School)
Jacob Engel (Visiting Undergrad. student from Rice Univ. 2017).
Dr. Kyle Reeves (PhD student, 2016, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at Paris 6).
Prof. Donghwa Lee (Post-doctoral researcher, 2010-2014, subsequently Assistant professor at Chonnam National University, Korea)
Zoe Watson (Undergraduate student, 2012-2014, subsequently PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Zhenya Hu (Undergraduate student, 2013-2014, subsequently employed at Sanofi Genzyme)
Dr. Shahar Keinan (EFRC staff, 2012-2014, subsequently co-Founder/Chief science officer at CloudPharmaceuticals)
Prof. Andre Schleife (Post-doctoral researcher, 2011-2013, subsequently Assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UIUC)
David Guarino (Undergraduate student, 2012-2013, subsequently Graduate student in financial math at Univ. Chicago)
Matt Dutra (Undergraduate student, 2011-2012, subsequently PhD student at UT Knoxville)