Principal Investigator
Dohyung Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Member of Vagelos Institute of Energy Science and Technology (VIEST)
Member of The Laboratory for Research on the Structure of Matter (LRSM)
University of Pennsylvania
Early Career Advisory Board – Chem & Bio Engineering
Faculty liaison/advisor to the AIChE student chapter at Penn
Faculty advisor to Road-to-Research (R2R)
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2018)
B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University (2012)
Catalysts Young Investigator Award / 2025
Packard Fellow / 2025
Unilever Award / 2024
KSEA Young Investigator Award / 2024
Nanoscale Emerging Investigators / 2024
ACS PRF DNI Award / 2023
Scialog Fellow – Negative Emissions Science / 2023
Hanwha Non-tenured Faculty Award / 2023
Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute Best Thesis Prize / 2018
Schmidt Science Fellow Finalist (Inaugural cohort) / 2018
MRS Graduate Student Award – Silver / 2018
Gareth Thomas Materials Excellence Award / 2017
Samsung Scholar / 2012 – 2017
Postdoctoral Scholars
Leobardo Rodriguez Segura
Vagelos Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined Summer 2024
Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry,
Purdue University
Research Interests: Selective Oxidations
bohyeon Kim
Postdoctoral Scholar
Joined Summer 2026
Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering,
Lehigh University
Research Interests: Surface Heterogeneity
Senior graduate students and postdocs interested in joining the team as postdoctoral scholars should contact the PI by email. Please attach your CV and indicate your interest in the position and how it fits with your career goals.
Ph.D. Students
rani baidoun
Joined Fall 2022
Vagelos Graduate Fellow, in CBE
B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Lehigh University
Research Interests: Interfacial Liquids
Anuj Buch
Joined Fall 2024
Ph.D. Student in CBE
B.S. in Chemical Engineering,
IIT Gandhinagar
Research Interests: Single-atom catalysis
Nidhi ohri
Joined Fall 2022
Vagelos Graduate Fellow, in CBE
B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Heteroatom-doped carbons
Edward (Cole) Fluker
Joined Fall 2024
NSF Graduate Research Fellow | GEM Fellow
| Dean’s Doctoral Fellow, in CBE
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Syracuse University
Research Interests: Interfacial Liquids
Incoming Ph.D. students and prospective students interested in joining the team are encouraged to contact the PI by email to schedule a meeting.
Master’s and Undergraduate Students
JOYCE ZHENG
Joined Fall 2025
Master’s student in CBE
B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering, UPenn
Lauren Van
Joined Summer 2024
Undergraduate in CBE
Research Interests: Heteroatom-doped carbons
Isaac Yang
Joined Summer 2024
Undergraduate in CBE
Research Interests: Electrochemical CO2 Conv.
Prisha Jain
Joined Summer 2025
VIPER student in CBE and Chemistry
Research Interests: Heteroatom-doped carbons
Master’s students and undergraduates interested in joining the team are encouraged to contact the PI by email to schedule a meeting.
Group Alumni
Yidong (Andrew) Hua (M.S.) – PhD Student at Georgia Tech, ChemE
Gexu (Liv) Liu (M.S.)
Chirag Khurana (M.S.)
Ndeye Fatou Sylla (Visiting Scholar)
Hailey Tobin (Undergraduate)
William Meng (Undergraduate)
Endi Guo (Undergraduate)