Current Members

Prof. Peidong Yang

See his brief profile featured in PNAS.

Peidong Yang received a B.S. in chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1993 and a Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University in 1997. He did postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara before joining the faculty in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. He is currently a professor in the Department of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, and a senior faculty scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is S. K. and Angela Chan Distinguished Chair Professor in Energy. He is a member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the European Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He is the director of the California Research Alliance by BASF and the director of the Kavli Energy Nanoscience Institute. He is one of the founding members of DOE Energy Innovation Hub: Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) and served as its north director for the first two years. He is also an affiliated faculty of the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP). Yang is an executive editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society and also serves on the editorial advisory board for a number of journals including Acct. Chem. Res. and Nano. Lett. He was the founder of the Nanoscience subdivision within the American Chemical Society. He has co-founded two startups Nanosys Inc. and Alphabet Energy Inc.

He is the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Global Energy Prize, E. O. Lawrence Award, Alan T. Waterman Award, MRS Medal, Baekeland Medal, Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics, ACS Nanoscience Award, Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship, the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, MRS Young Investigator Award, and ACS Pure Chemistry Award.

According to ISI (Thomas Reuters), Yang was ranked No. 1 in materials science and No. 10 in chemistry from 2002-2012 based on average citations per paper. He is the 2014 Thomas Reuters Citation Laureate for Physics. His main research interest is in the area of semiconductor nanowires and their applications in nanophotonics and energy conversion.

Office: Hildebrand 239
Tel: (510) 643-1545
Fax: (510) 642-7301
p_yang@berkeley.edu

Group Office: Hildebrand Hall 315
Tel: (510) 642-2867

CVD Office: Hildebrand Hall 301B
Tel: (510) 642-4461

Wet lab: Hildebrand Hall 309
Tel: (510) 643-6866

Lissette Garcia

Administrative Officer, CARA Center Program Manager
Tel: (510) 643-1679.
Email: lgarcia@berkeley.edu.

Crystal Garcia

Administrative Officer
Tel: (510) 393-1500.
Email: crysgarcia@berkeley.edu.

Graduate Students

	Jia-An Lin (Chemistry, 2019) Taiwan-Berkeley Fellowship Education: B.S. Chemistry, National Taiwan University. Email: jiaan_lin@berkeley.edu Google Scholar. Research Interests: Ultrathin 1D/2D perovskites
	Han Le (Chemistry, 2019) NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Education: B.A. Chemistry (major), Mathematics (major), and Physics (minor), Franklin & Marshall College Email: hkle@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Phase Transitions of Perovskites
	Alexander Oddo (Chemistry, 2020) Education: B.S. Chemistry (Honors Scholar) and M.S. Chemistry, both from the University of Connecticut in 2020. Email: alex_oddo@berkeley.edu Research Interests: perovskites & photophysics
	Yu Shan (MSE, 2021) Education: B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), China Email: chrisshan@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Catalyst design for CO2 reduction. I am a shutterbug and like basketball~
	Arifin Luthfi Maulana (MSE, 2021) Education: B.S. and M.S. in Engineering Physics, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia Email: arifinmaulana@berkeley.edu Google Scholar. Research Interests: Multicomponent materials for electrocatalysis
	Yuxin Jiang (Chemistry, 2021) Education: B.A. Chemistry, Mount Holyoke College Email: yuxin.jiang@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Perovskite materials
	Libby Lineberry (Chemistry, 2021) Education: B.S. Chemistry, Bethany College Email: elizabeth_lineberry@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Photo-driven CO2 reduction using microbe-semiconductor biohybrids
	Julian Feijoo (Chemistry, 2021) Education: M.S. in Chemistry from LMU Munich, B.S. in Chemistry & Biochemistry from LMU Munich Email: julian_feijoo@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Electrocatalysis
	Nathan Soland (Chemistry, 2021) Education: B.S. Chemistry, UC Davis Email: nathan_soland@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Electrocatalysis for CO2 reduction and carbohydrate production
	Maria Fonseca Guzman (Chemistry, 2021) Education: B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell Email: mariafonseca@berkeley.edu Research Interests: CO2 electrochemical reduction
	Lihini Jayasinghe (Chemistry, 2022) Education: B.S. in Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, Sri Lanka Email: lihinij@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Photosynthetic biohybrid systems
	Jihoon Choi (MSE, 2023) Education: B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Email: jh_choi@berkeley.edu Research Interests: CO₂ electrolysis
	Andrew Liu (MSE, 2023) Education: B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering, Duke University Email: andrew.liu8@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Photoelectrochemical reduction of CO₂
	Heqing Zhu (Chemistry, 2023) Education: B.S. in Chemistry, Nanjing University Email: heqing_zhu@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Metal halide molecular wire
	Wonseok Lee (MSE, 2023) Education: B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Email: wonseok@berkeley.edu Research Interests: (Photo)electrochemistry and CO₂ reduction using photosynthetic biohybrids
	Tianle Wang (Chemistry, 2023) Education: B.S. in Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor Email: tianlew@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Electrocatalysis for CO₂ reduction
	Lior Verbitsky (Chemistry, 2022) Education: B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Chemistry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel Email: liorv@berkeley.edu. Personal Website. Google Scholar. Research Interests: Perovskite nanowires
	Xinyu Chen (Chemistry, 2023) Education: B.E. in Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University Email: xinyu_chen@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Halide perovskites
	Yasin Badawy (Chemistry, 2024) Education: B.S. in Molecular Engineering (Major), Engineering of Polymers and Soft Materials (Minor), University of Chicago Email: ybadawy@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Nanocrystal Synthesis, Electrocatalysis for CO₂ Reduction
	Hanguk Cho (MSE, 2024) Education: B.S. and M.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University Email: hanguk_cho@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Halide perovskite
	Abigail Derrico (Physics, 2023) Education: B.S. in Physics, Temple University Email: derrico@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Renewable energy, spectroscopic techniques

Post-Doctoral Fellows and Visiting Scholars

	Hye Jin Jo (2022) Education: Ph.D., Food Science and Engineering, Ewha Womans University Email: hjinjo2022@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Liquid sunlight using CO₂-reductive bacteria
	Jie Luo (2023) Education: Ph.D., Organic Chemistry, Sun Yat-Sen University; Postdoctoral Fellow, Green Homogeneous Catalysis, Weizmann Institute of Science Email: daluojie@berkeley.edu Research Interests: CO₂ to sugar; Photocatalytic alcohol dehydrogenation
	Geonhui Lee (2023) Education: Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto Email: geonhuilee@berkeley.edu Research Interests: CO₂ capture and upgrade
	Hee-Jeong Cha (2024) Education: Ph.D., Food Science and Technology, Ewha Womans University Email: hjcha@berkeley.edu Research Interests: CO₂ to biobutanol using engineered bacterial cells

Undergraduate Students

	Amelyn Phang Email: amelyn@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Covalent nanorods for energy conversion
	Jiaxi (Josh) Wei Email: josh.wei@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Photosynthetic biohybrids
	Alex Sachelarie Email: alexsache@berkeley.edu Research Interests: CO₂ electrocatalysis
	Bruce Pan Email: bdp@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Chalcogenide perovskites and metal oxysulfides
	Chuxi Wen Email: cwddq@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Optoelectric properties of perovskites
	Anna Chen Email: axchen2516@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Multicomponent catalysts for energy applications
	Skye Leng Email: skyeleng@berkeley.edu Research Interests: CO₂ reduction using photosynthetic biohybrids
	Kiran M. Donnelly Email: k_donnelly@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Photochemical amino-acid synthesis
	Gabrielle Heuer Email: gabrielleheuer@berkeley.edu Research Interests: Carbon sequestration, renewable energy