Dr. Lina Quan
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Email: linaquan@unc.edu
Education and Research Experiences
2018-2020 Postdoc. U of California, Berkeley (w/ Prof. Yang)
2016-2017 Postdoc. U of Toronto (w/ Prof. Sargent)
2014-2016 Visiting doctoral student. U of Toronto (w/ Prof. Sargent)
2011-2016 PhD. Ewha Womans University (w/ Prof. Kim)
Awards and Recognition
2025 NSF CAREER Award
2024 DOE Early Career Award
2021-2023 RCSA Scialog Fellow – Negative Emission Science
2019-2025 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics
2016 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award
Postdoctoral Fellows
Graduate Students
Sunhao Liu
MS: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MSE
Email: sunhao at vt.edu
Research interest: Chiral hybrid perovskites
Jiyoon Kim
MS: University of Delaware, Chemistry
Email: jiyoonkim at vt.edu
Research interest: Phase transition chemistry of perovskites
Qian Wang
MS: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Chemistry
Email: qianw21 at vt.edu
Research interest: Non-linear optical materials
Monotosh Mondal
MS: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Chemistry
Email: mmondal at unc.edu
Research interest: Physical properties of halide perovskites
Ruitao Wen
MS: Duke University, Materials Science
Email: ruitaow at unc.edu
Research interest: Chiral hybrid perovskites
Nicholas Nici
BS: Virginia Tech, Chemistry
Email: nnici at unc.edu
Research interest: Optical properties of halide perovskites
Shuyue Bian
MS: Johns Hopkins University
Email: shuyueb at unc.edu
Research interest: Optical probe of semiconducting materials
Zachary Aycock
BS: Virginia Tech, Chemistry
Email: zaycock at unc.edu
Research interest: Chirality in semiconductors
Undergraduate Students
Visiting Students
Alumni
2021
Kylie Arnold (Undergrads)- Virginia Tech, ChE
Aaron Jenkins (Undergrads)- Virginia Tech, Nanoscience
2022
Wang Geun Lee (Undergrads)- Virginia Tech, Mechanical Engineering and Chemistry
Samir Zuberi (Undergrads)- Virginia Tech, Nanoscience
Gavin Harman (Undergrads)- Virginia Tech, Chemical Engineering
Conner Weaver (Undergrads) -Virginia Tech, Nanomedicine
Omar West (Undergrads)- PhD student at Ohio State U (current)
Michael Lucas (Undergrads)-Virginia Tech, Chemistry
2023
Kelli Henshaw (Undergrads)-Virginia Tech, Chemistry
Era Shehu (Master) – Virginia Tech, Lab Technician (current)
2024
Scott Nalepa (Undergrads)-Virginia Tech, Chemistry
Yujia Sun (Undergrads) – PhD student at U Chicago (current)
Rithvik Rayala (Undergrads)-Virginia Tech, Chemistry
Hongyeop Lee (Undergrads)- MS student at Northwestern U (current)
2025
Yixuan Dou (Postdoc)-Virginia Tech
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