Congratulations to Ben Hoar and Danlei Xiang for receiving their Ph.D. in Chemistry, pending the formal approval of their PhD thesis. It has been Chong’s great honor to spend five years with them! Best wishes to their future career!
Chong is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure
Chong is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, as recently highlighted at the departmental website of UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry. Chong joined the UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry faculty in 2017 as an assistant professor.
Jingyu Wang and Brandon Jolly receive the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship!
Graduate students Jingyu Wang and Brandon Jolly receives the 2023-2024 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF). Such financial support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and filling their dissertations. Congratulations!
Three new graduate students joined the group!
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Three first-year graduate students, Yisi Chen, Jennifer Kim, and Markus Thiel, joined the group! Welcome!
Xun’s Nature Catalysis work gets highlighted
The work of Xun Guan, recently published at Nature Catalysis, is highlighted in the News & Views session of Nature Catalysis. Congrats to Xun! And we are grateful for the support and appreciation from the community!
Below is the figure from the News & Views of Nature Catalysis.
A new website for automated electrochemical analysis
We are excited to launch a new website (www.cv-ml.com), which allow researchers and educators to use deep-learning-based algorithms to automatically analyze electrochemical data such as cyclic voltammograms. Check it out!
New group photos~
In celebrating the graduation of our group members, the Liu group had quite a bit fun at the Barney’s, for the first time since the pandemic, and took the belated group photos!
Three more PhDs and one more M.A.! Congrats!
Congratulations to Ben Natinsky, Jesus Iñiguez, and Xun Guan for receiving their Ph.D. in Chemistry! It has been Chong’s great pleasure to spend five years with them! Also, congratulations to Brianna Mai as a departmental scholar for receiving her M.A. in Chemistry! Good job and well deserved!
Danlei Xiang receives the UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship!
Our graduate student Danlei Xiang receives the 2022-2023 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship (DYF), among other chemistry & biochemistry graduate student researchers in the department. With a $20,000 stipend plus standard tuition and fees, the DYF is intended to support doctoral students who are within one year of completing and filing their dissertations. Congratulations, Danlei!
Chong receives the NSF CAREER Award!
Chong receives the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER), NSF’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization. We are grateful for NSF’s five-year support for us to develop solution catalysis containing seemingly incompatible steps. Thank you very much!
The news report at UCLA Chemistry & Biochemistry can be found here.