Principal Investigator
Di Wu
Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Founding Director of Alexandra Navrotsky Institute for Experimental Thermodynamics
Affiliate Associate Professor of Materials & Mechanical Engineering
Washington State University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis – 2012
M.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Akron – 2008
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University – 2006
Email: d.wu@wsu.edu | Voiland School Faculty Page
Office: Wegner 107 | Laboratory: Wegner G60| Phone: 509-335-3757
Curriculum Vitae | Google Scholar | ResearchGate | LinkedIn
Graduate Student
Megan Hawkins
Ph.D. Candidate – Inorganic Chemistry
B.S. Chemistry, Xavier University – 2017
Email: megan.hawkins@wsu.edu
Awards: NASA Space Grant Scholarship
Office: Wegner G60 | Laboratory: Wegner G60
Research: Clays and Layered Double Hydroxides
Past Members
Cody B. Cockreham
Position: Ph.D. Student (09/2017 – 04/2022)
Research: 2D Layered Materials, Shale and Fluorides
Awards: Alexandra Navrotsky Scholarship, Seaborg Institute Research Fellow, ARCS Scholar
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California
Xianghui Zhang
Position: Ph.D. Student (09/2017 – 08/2022)
Research: Carbides, Zeolites, Layered Double Hydroxides
Awards: Alexandra Navrotsky Scholarship, Chambroad Distinguished Scholarship, Melvin & Ruth M. Smith Scholarship, GPSA Dissertation Grant
Current Position: Engineer, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, Oregon
Jun Wang
Position: Visiting Professor of Physics (09/2018 – 09/2019)
Research: Computational Condense Matter Physics
Current Position: Associate Professor of Physics, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering – Sichuan, China
Gengnan Li
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow (03/2017 – 02/2018)
Research: 2D materials, Electrochemistry
Current Position: Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
Yongfei Li
Position: Visiting Ph.D. Student – Oilfield Chemistry (09/2019 – 08/2020)
Research: Surface Chemistry
Current Position: TBD
Zhiyang Huang
Position: M.S. Student (non-thesis) – Engineering Science (01/2017 – 05/2018)
Current Position: Research Associate at Washington State University
Gerson Leonel
B.S. Student in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2020
Current Position: Ph.D. Student with Prof. Alexandra Navrotsky at Arizona State University
Zach Spargur
B.S. Student in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2021
Current Position: Nuclear Engineer at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & IMF
Yilin Liu
B.S. Student in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2018
Current Position: MEA Research Engineer at Shenzhen Automotive Research Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology
Jimmy Padua
B.S. Student in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2020
Current Position: Controls Engineer at Barry-Wehmiller Design Group
Dantong Qiu
Position: Graduate Student – Materials Science & Engineering
Current Position: Ph.D. Student at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Andika Rosul
Position: M.S. Student – Chemical Engineering (01/2017 – 07/2018)
Research: Core-Shell Nanoparticles
Current Position: TBD
Andrew Sader
B.S. Student in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2020
Current Position: Associate Chemical Engineer at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories (SEL)
Zengran Sun
B.S. Student in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2018
Current Position: Ph.D. Student with Prof. Steven R. Saunders at Washington State University
Taylan Swift
B.S. Student in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2019
Current Position: TBD
Kim-Lien Vu
B.S. Student in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2020
Current Position: Quality Engineer at Crane Aerospace & Electronics
Aaron Wu
B.S. Student in Chemical Engineering, Class of 2019
Current Position: Staff Engineer at Kennedy/Jenks Consultants
Chen Yang
Graduate Student – Chemical Engineering
Current Position: Ph.D. Student at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Esra Yılmaz
Visiting Ph.D. Student – Chemical Engineering (02/2019 – 12/2019)
Current Position: TBD
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