Dr. Nian Liu ✉

Associate Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Dr. Nian Liu designs nanomaterials for high-energy batteries and develops light microscopy to visualize battery reactions. Co-author of 60 published papers, Liu won the emerging investigators award from Nanoscale in 2022, the Young Investigator Award from the American Chemical Society’s Division of Inorganic Chemistry in 2015, the Electrochemical Society’s Daniel Cubicciotti Award in 2014, the emerging investigators award from the Journal of Materials Chemistry A as well as the Chemistry of Materials Up-and-coming Researcher from the American Chemical Society. He was selected to present at the 2015 Rising Stars in Chemistry Symposium organized by the University of Chicago.

Graduate students and Postdoctoral Scholars

Jieun Kang ✉

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. Pohang University of Science and Technology

Zhitao Chen ✉

ChBE PhD Candidate

B.S. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Lotanna Onua ✉

ChBE PhD Candidate

B.S. The Ohio State University

Karam Eeso ✉

ChBE PhD Candidate

B.S. Florida State University

Adam Hsieh ✉

ChBE PhD Candidate

B.S. National Taiwan University
M.S. Columbia University in the City of New York

Vaibhavi Gujarathi ✉

ChBE MS Student

B.S. MIT World Peace University

Undergraduate Students

Jesse Jang

Danai Efthymiopoulou

Khue Phan