Group Members


Current members:

Dr. Jianyi Ma, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr. Jun Li, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Dr. Sayak Bhattacharya, Postdoctoral Research Associate


Mr. Greg Smith, PhD student

Ryan Johnson, PhD student


Mr. Stav Gold, Undergraduate student

Mr. Charlie Villanueva, Undergraduate student


Former members:

Li Liu (Ph.D., 1991-1996, Outstanding Graduate Research Award)

Zhihong Huang (postdoc, 1991-1993)

Josie Setzler (Ph.D. 1992-1997, ACS Women Committee Travel Award, 1996; Robert R. Buell Memorial Achievement Award, 1995; Sigma Xi Research Presentation Award, 1995; University Fellowship, 1992-3)

Jianyun Fang (postdoc, 1993-1995)

Feng Chen (M.S., 1995-1998)

Rongqing Chen (postdoc/Research Assistant Professor, 1996-2003)

Bechtel, Jason (Undergraduate research assistant, 1997-1998)

Cheng Zhou (M.S. 1998-2000)

Guobin Ma (postdoc, 1998-2000)

Shenmin Li (postdoc, 2000-2002)

Guohui Li (postdoc, 2002-2003)

Marc Mabray (undergraduate research assistant, 2004)

Canhui Wang (PhD, 2003-2008)

Jinbo Wu (MS, 2005-2007)

Zhimin Li (MS, 2006-2008)

Wenzhen Lai (visiting student, 2008)

Dingguo Xu (postdoc/research assistant professor, 2002-2008)

Shi Ying Lin (postdoc/research assistant professor, 2001-2009)

Chris Smith (undergraduate intern, 2009-2010)

Caleb Miles (undergraduate intern, 2010)

Reina Buenconsejo (high school intern, 2010)

Sen Lin (visiting student, 2010)

Hong Fu (visiting student, 2011)

Bin Jiang (visiting student, 2011)

Zhihong Ke (postdoc, 2009 – 2011)

Former and current collaborators:

·  Alexander, Millard, Department of Chemistry, University of Maryland

·  Bañares, Luis, Departamento de Quimica Fisica I, Facultad de Quimica, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain

·  Bludsky, Ota, and Nachtigall, Petr, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

·  Boering, Kristie, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

·  Bowman, Joel, Department of Chemistry, Emory University

·  Butler, Laurie, Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago

·  Cui, Qiang, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin at Madison

·  Dawes, Richard, Department of Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology

·  Datye, Abhaya, Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico

·  Dunaway-Mariano, Debra, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico

·  Farantos, Stavros, Department of Chemistry, University of Crete, Greece

·  Fast, Walt, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin

·  Field, Bob, Department of Chemistry, MIT

·  Hengge, Alvan, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University

·  Herbst, Eric, Department of Physics, Ohio State University

·  Ho, Tak-San  and Rabitz, Herschel , Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

·  Honvault, Pascal, Universite de Franche-Comte, Besançon cedex, France

·  Gao, Jiali, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota

·  Gong, Bing, Department of Chemistry, University at Buffalo

·  Kellman, Michael, Department  of Chemistry, University of Oregon

·  Kong, Wei, Department of Chemistry, Oregon State University

·  Kosloff, Ronnie, Department of Physical Chemistry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

·  Lendvay, Gyorgy, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

·  Li, Shenmin, Department of Chemistry, Dalian University, China

·  Lin, Jim, J.-M. and Lee, Y. T., Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan

·  Lou, Bihshow, Chemistry Division, ChangGung University, Taiwan, ROC

·  Mariano, Pat, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico

·  Muckerman, James, Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory

·  Murrell, John, School of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, University of Sussex, UK

·  Oprea, Tudor, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico

·  Peterson, Kirk, Department of Chemistry, Washington State University

·  Roy, P-N, Department of Chemistry, University of Waterloo

·  Saalfrank, Peter, Institute of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Germany

·  Schatz, George, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University

·  Seideman, Tamar, Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University

·  Wang, Wei, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico

·  Xie, Daiqian, Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University, China

·  Yang, Xueming, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China

·  York, Darrin, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota

·  Xu, Dingguo, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, China

·  Zeweil, Ahmed, A. A. Noyes Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

·  Zhang, Donghui, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China