Principal Investigator
Sihong Wang
Assistant Professor
Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
The University of Chicago
5640 South Ellis Avenue, ERC 385
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone: 773-834-2630
Email: sihongwang@uchicago.edu
EDUCATION:
2015-2018 Postdoc, Chemical Engineering Stanford University
2009-2014 Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
2009-2014 Minor: Electrical Engineering
2005-2009 B.S., Materials Science and Engineering Tsinghua University
2023 ACS Polymeric Material Science and Engineering (PMSE) Young Investigator Award
2023 Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM)
2022 NSF CAREER Award
2022 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics
2022 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
2022 Advanced Materials Rising Star Award
2021 iCANX Young Scientist Award
2021 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics
2021 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award
2020 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics
2020 MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35 (TR35, Global List)
2017 Material Research Society Postdoc Travel Award
2014 Material Research Society Graduate Student Award
2014 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad
2014 Certificate of Merit for the oral presentation at 247th ACS National Meeting
2013 Poster Competition Award in Southeast Regional Energy Symposium
2013 1st Place in the Poster Competition of School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech
2012 Self-charging power cell selected as the Top 10 Breakthroughs in Physics Science for 2012 by Physics World
**Openings available for postdocs and graduate students. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Please send your CV to Prof. Wang.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Wei Liu
Email: wei6@uchicago.edu
Ph.D.: Materials Sci. & Engr., Beijing Institute of Technology
Adviser: Prof. Xiaohong Zhang
Year joined the group: 2019
Dr. Songsong Li
Email: song2li@uchicago.edu
Ph.D.: Materials Sci. & Engr., UIUC
Adviser: Prof. Charles Schroeder
Year joined the group: 2021
Graduate Students
Yahao Dai
Ph.D. student in Molecular Engineering
Email: yahao@uchicago.edu
B.S.: Polymer Sci. & Engr., Zhejiang University
Year entered the group: 2018
Nan Li
Email: nanl1@uchicago.edu
B.S.: Chemistry, Nanjing University
Year entered the group: 2018
Yang Li
Ph.D. student in Molecular Engineering
Email: yli93@uchicago.edu
M.S.: Mechanical Engineering, UCSD
Year entered the group: 2019
Cheng Zhang
(Co-advised with Prof. Juan de Pablo)
Ph.D. student in Molecular Engineering
Email: chengzhang4@uchicago.edu
B.S.: Polymer Sci. & Engr., Zhejiang University
Year entered the group: 2019
Sean Lee
(Co-advised with Prof. Stuart Rowan)
Ph.D. student in Chemistry
Email: seanl33@uchicago.edu
B.S.: Chemistry, University of Virginia
Year entered the group: 2020
Shinya Wai
(Co-advised with Prof. Matthew Tirrell)
Ph.D. student in Molecular Engineering
Email: slwai@uchicago.edu
B.S.: NanoEngineering, UCSD
Year entered the group: 2020
Naisong Shan
(Co-advised with Prof. Paul Nealey)
Ph.D. student in Molecular Engineering
Email: naisong@uchicago.edu
B.S.: Chemistry & Materials Sci. & Engr., UIUC
Year entered the group: 2021
Max Weires
Ph.D. student in Molecular Engineering
Email: mweires@uchicago.edu
B.S.: Nanoscale Engr., SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Year entered the group: 2022
Sean Sutyak
Ph.D. student in Molecular Engineering
Email: ssutyak@uchicago.edu
B.S.: Materials Sci. & Engr., UIUC
Year entered the group: 2022
Undergraduate Students
Rithvik Papani
Email: rpapani@uchicago.edu
Class: 2024
Major: Physics
Year entered the group: 2021
Shivani Chatterji
Email: chatterjis@uchicago.edu
Class: 2023
Major: Molecular Engineering & Chemistry
Year entered the group: 2021
Lingfeng Tang
Email: lingfengt@uchicago.edu
Class: 2023
Major: Molecular Engineering
Year entered the group: 2021
Aidan Ziaja
Email: aziaja@uchicago.edu
Class: 2025
Major: Molecular Engineering
Year entered the group: 2022
Ryan Yetishefsky
Email: ryetishefsky@uchicago.edu
Class: 2024
Major: Molecular Engineering
Year entered the group: 2022
Glingna Wang
Email: glingnawang@uchicago.edu
Class: 2025
Major: Physics, Molecular Engineering, CS
Year entered the group: 2022