Research Groups

Our activities are split between the labs at Stony Brook University (at the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering) and Brookhaven National Laboratory (at the Department of Chemistry).

BNL Research Group: Structure and Dynamics of Applied Nanomaterials

Group leader: Prof. Anatoly I. Frenkel

Graduate Students:

Ms. Shuting Xiang
Mr. Kaifeng Zheng
Mr. Rafat Aunkon
Mr. Weixuan Huang

Visiting Scientist:

Dr. Ryuichi Shimogawa (Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., Japan)

Recent Group Alumni

Dr. Yuanyuan Li (Research scientist in the group. Currently – Staff scientist at ORNL)
Dr. Prahlad Routh (Postdoc in the group)
Dr. Erjia Guan (Postdoc in the group. Currently – Scientist in Chevron)
Dr. Harishchandra Singh (Postdoc in the group. Currently – in The University of Oulu, Finland)
Dr. Janis Timoshenko (Postdoc in the group. Currently -Group Leader, Fritz Haber Institute)
Dr. Jing Liu (Postdoc in the group, Currently – Professor, Manhattan College)
Dr. Qi Wang (Research scientist in the group)
Dr. Anitha Patlolla (Postdoc in the group)
Dr. Relja Vasic (Postdoc in the group)
Dr. Yang Liu (SBU PhD ’22). Currently – data scientist in Meta.
Dr. Nicholas Marcella (SBU PhD ’21. Currently – a scientist at Joint Photon Science Institute, SBU)
Dr. Jiahao Huang (SBU PhD ’19)
Dr. Yiyao Tian (SBU PhD ’20. Currently – Scientist at Sigray)
Dr. Amani Ebrahim (SBU PhD ’20. Currently – a beamline scientist in Canadian Light Source)
Dr. Junying Li (SBU PhD ’22)
Dr. Haodong Wang (SBU PhD ’23. Currently – in Applied Materials)
Mr. Mahdin Mahboob (SBU M.Sc. ’23)