Lab News
2024
January 2025 – Welcome to our new postdoc Zihang!
December 2024 – Congratulations to our postdoc Yoshiya and Paul on their recent publication in JACS!
December 2024 – Congratulations to Nathan, Dana, and Breno on their recent publication in ACIE!
November 2024 – Congratulations to our former undergraduate Matt and Paul on their recent publication in Organic Letters — nice job!
November 2024 – Welcome to our new postdoc Yifan!
July 2024 – The lab welcomes Mustafa from the High School Lab Pathways Summer Research Program!
July 2024 – The Liu lab hosts future scientists from Korea (https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/richard-liu-inspires-future-scientists-korea)
June 2024 – Nick joins us as a visiting undergraduate researcher from Oxford — welcome!
June 2024 – Dalton Raykowski joins us as an undergraduate researcher!
May 2024 – We welcome two undergraduate researchers to our group: Mayar Alhelaili, visiting from USC, and Ben Ford from Harvard!
April 2024 – Congratulations to our G1s Amelia Liu, Ariel Wang, and Eva Bayer for receiving NSF GRFP awards and to Sophia Li for an honorable mention!
April 2024 – Congratulations to Naoki Naito for receiving a scholarship from the Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation!
April 2024 – Thanks to the NSF for funding our CAREER (Faculty Early Career Development Program) proposal!
March 2024 – Paul and Kranthi publish their work on aminative cross-coupling in Science – well done!
February 2024 – Congratulations to Abdul and our collaborators from the Aziz group on the publication of their article in Nature Energy!
January 2024 – Welcome to Kasie Leung, a new undergraduate researcher in our group!
2023
December 2023 – Wow! We are joined by seven first-year graduate students: Amelia Liu, Ariel Wang, Eva Bayer, Johnson Zhou, Naoki Naito, Shangyu Li, and Sophia Li.
November 2023 – Aquila Wolff joins us as an undergraduate researcher!
October 2023 – Congratulations to Kranthi Ramagonolla as he starts in a new position at Eisai!
September 2023 – Welcome to Michael Purdy, who joins us as a postdoctoral fellow! We also welcome Laine Roper, a new undergraduate researcher.
July 2023 – Isabelle Leibler joins the group as an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA postdoctoral fellow!
July 2023 – Our group is excited to receive the Smith Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Biomedical Research!
June 2023 – Congratulations to the group for receiving funding from the William F. Milton Fund!
June 2023 – Jennifer Tran joins us for her master’s thesis research!
May 2023 – Thanks to the Star-Friedman Challenge for supporting a joint project between our group and the Lee Lab!
April 2023 – We welcome Jayden Thomas as a visiting undergraduate researcher from Georgia Tech!
March 2023 –Yoshiya Sekiguchi joins us as a new postdoctoral fellow!
February 2023 – Welcome Kranthi Ramagonolla, a new postdoctoral fellow!
January 2023 – Nathan Faialaga joins us as a postdoctoral fellow from MIT, and Cierra Brown and Beverly Fu join us as undergraduate researchers!
2022
December 2022 – Welcome Paul Onnuch and Breno Silva as new graduate students in our group! Matthew Kung also joins us as an undergraduate researcher.
December 2022 – Congratulations to Abdul and Nina on the publication of their article in ACS Applied Energy Materials!
December 2022 – Congratulations to Abdul, Nina, Jayden, and Khash on the publication of their article in JACS!
October 2022 – Our group was selected for funding by the Aramont Fellowship Fund for Emerging Science Research!
September 2022 – Thanks to the ACS Petroleum Research Fund for supporting our research with a Doctoral New Investigator Grant!
September 2022 – Abdul Alfaraidi joins as a joint student with the Aziz Lab (Harvard SEAS). We also welcome Nina Ni and Eion Chua as undergraduate researchers!
August 2022 – We welcome Dana Gephart as our first graduate student!
July 2022 – Our lab opens its doors. Richard Darkwa and Ella Miller join as undergraduate researchers and Khash Rajabimoghadam as our first postdoctoral fellow!