Group Members

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Principal Investigator

Dr. Yuan Ping

Dr. Yuan Ping became an assistant professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department at UCSC during the summer of 2016. Before coming to UCSC, she was a postdoctoral fellow at California Institute of Technology (Advisor: William Goddard III) and obtained her Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of California, Davis (Advisor: Giulia Galli).

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Rafi Ullah

Dr. Rafi Ullah joined the Ping Group on February 01, 2023. He has spent the past two years as a faculty member in the Department of Physics, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan, and previously graduated with a PhD from University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastain, Spain.

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Dr. Wuzhang Fang

Dr. Wuzhang Fang joined the Ping Group on September 01, 2023. He graduated with a PhD from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the US.

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Graduate Students

Andrew Carl Grieder

Andrew joined the Ping Group on July 15, 2021. He graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.S. in Physics and is now working on his Ph.D in Chemistry at UCSC.

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Zihao Bai

Zihao joined the Ping Group on Nov 10, 2023. He graduated from Jilin University with a B.S. in Physics and is now working on his Ph.D in Chemistry at UW-Madison.

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Chunhao Guo

Chunhao joined the Ping Group on August 13, 2018. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. in Applied Physics and is now working on his Ph.D in Chemistry at UCSC.

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Erik Alfredo PEREZ CARO

Erik joined the Ping Group on October 1, 2023. He graduated from Pontifical Catholic University of Peru with a B.S. and M.Sc. in Physics and is now working on his Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering at UW-Madison.

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Zizheng Yang

Zizheng joined the Ping Group on September 1, 2022. 

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Kejun Li

Kejun joined the Ping Group on October 4, 2019. He previously obtained his M.S. in Applied Physics from the University of Tsukuba and his B.S. in Material Physics from the University of Science and Technology Beijing. He is now working on his Ph.D in Physics at UCSC.

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Shimin Zhang

Shimin joined the Ping Group on October 7, 2020. She graduated from the South University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. in Physics and is now working on her Ph.D in Physics at UCSC.

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Collaborative Graduate Students

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Group Alumni