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
Sunhao Liu
PhD: Virginia Tech, Chemistry
Email: sunhao at vt.edu
Research interest: Chiral hybrid perovskites
Graduate Students
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 (current affiliation)
Undergraduates
Hongyeop Lee (Northwestern U)
Scott Nalepa
Rithvik Rayala
Yujia Sun (U Chicago)
Wang Geun Lee
Nicholas Nici
Michael Lucas
Omar West (Ohio State U)
Kelli Henshaw
Samir Zuberi
Gavin Harman
Conner Weaver
Aaron Jenkins
PhD and Postdocs
Yixuan Dou (Virginia Tech)
Qian Wang (U Wisconsin-Madison)
Jiyoon Kim
Sunhao Liu (UNC Chapel Hill)
Era Shehu(Virginia Tech)
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