Principal Investigator:
Nicola H. Perry
Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering & Materials Research Laboratory
268 MRL / (217) 300-6335
Read Prof. Perry’s profile on the department website here.
nhperry [at] illinois [dot] edu
Post-doctoral Researchers:
Jongmin Lee
Joined 8/2021
PhD, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology (2020)
ljm [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Thin film triple-conducting electrodes for intermediate-temperature H2 production
Students:
Emily Skiba
PhD Student
Joined 1/2018
skiba4 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Crystallization of mixed conducting films and their oxygen exchange kinetics (& I-MRSEC seed project)
Lawrence Anderson
PhD Student
Joined 9/2018
loa3 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Crystal chemical design rules for tailored chemical expansivity
Haley Buckner
PhD Student
Joined 9/2018
hbb2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Chemo-mechanically driven in situ hierarchical structure formation in mixed conductors (& MRSEC seed)
Adrian Xiao Bin Yong
PhD Student
Co-advised; primary advisor: Elif Ertekin
axyong2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Electronic structure and chemical expansivity of perovskites
Kai-Wei Lan
PhD Student
Joined 1/2021
kwlan2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Bulk & thin film solid electrolytes for temperature-insensitive and recyclable Li-ion batteries
En Ju Cho
PhD Student
Joined 9/2021
enjucho2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: 1) Recyclable batteries (thin film electrolytes); 2) Thin film electrodes for low temperature green H2 production
Alexia Popescu
PhD Student
Joined 8/2022
alexia3 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: Combinatorial film libraries and spatially-resolved optical analysis of defect kinetics for DOE-EC then HEISs EFRC
Sipei Zhang
PhD Student
Joined 8/2022
sipeiz2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: electro-chemo-mechanical coupling of interface-dominated materials for MUSIC EFRC
Yong-Yun Hsiau
PhD Student
Joined 8/2022
yhsiau2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: vertically aligned nanocomposite films and RBS/ERDA composition analysis for HEISs EFRC
Xuanze (Ben) Yu
PhD Student
Joined 8/2023
xyu63 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: design principles for perovskite chemical expansion
Chieh-Jung (Jimmy) Lu
PhD Student
Joined 8/2023
cjlu2 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: photo-ionics (MRSEC)
Rachel Pereira
PhD Student
Joined 8/2023
rachel24 [at] illinois [dot] edu
Project: photo-ionics (MRSEC)
Katrina Arsky
BS Student in MatSE
Joined 8/2021
Project: Combinatorial films – automating big-data analysis
Yoav Malka
BS Student in MatSE
Joined summer 2023
Project: HEISs EFRC and combinatorial films
Alumni:
MS / PhD students and Postdoctoral researchers:
Dr. Steven Lin
PhD student (2018-2023)
Now working at Factorial Energy on solid-state batteries
Guha Keshav Mohan
MS student researcher (2022)
Dr. Dino Klotz
Post-doctoral researcher at I2CNER; Co-advised with Prof. Harry Tuller (MIT)
Working at Zurich Instruments
Dr. Ting Chen
PhD student then post-doctoral researcher at I2CNER (2015-2019)
Now assistant professor at China University of Mining and Technology
Dr. Sophie Ju
Post-doctoral researcher at I2CNER
Now working as researcher at Charles University (Prague)
Micah Armstrong
PhD student 2020-2022
Now working at Intel, Arizona
Colin Reedy
PhD student 2019-2020
Now working at Elemental Scientific, Inc., Nebraska
Yiwen Guo
3+2 ZJU-UIUC BS+MS student 2019-2021
Now PhD student at Penn State
Undergraduate researchers:
Harry Hawbaker
REU Mentee (summer 2023)
Michael Sun
Undergraduate researcher at UIUC (2022-2023)
Jackie Zheng
REU Mentee (summer 2022)
Joshua Simpson-Gomez
Undergraduate researcher at UIUC (1/2020-5/2022)
Sankhya Hirani
Undergraduate researcher at UIUC (2/2020-5/2020)
Jo Kubota
Undergraduate researcher at UIUC (9/2019-5/2020)
Kotaro Yamamoto
Visiting undergraduate researcher from Kyushu U. at UIUC (2-3/2020)
Karen Yang
Undergraduate researcher at UIUC (9/2018-8/2019)
Yuki Abe
Visiting undergraduate researcher from Kyushu University (spring 2019)
Kimberly Garza
Undergraduate researcher at UIUC (fall 2018)
Takaya Fujisaki
3-month intern in the group at I2CNER
Juveria Masood
Summer PIRE X-fusion exchange student at I2CNER