Head of Chair
Prof. Xinliang Feng
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Work Biography:This is a professorship in the context of the cluster of excellence cfaed.Prof. Feng is the head of the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Technische Universität Dresden. He received his Bachelor’s degree in analytic chemistry in 2001 and Master’s degree in organic chemistry in 2004. Then he joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research for PhD thesis, where he obtained his PhD degree in April 2008. In December 2007, he was appointed as a group leader at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, and in 2012, he became a distinguished group leader. His current scientific interests include organic synthetic methodology, organic synthesis and supramolecular chemistry of π-conjugated system, bottom-up synthesis and top-down fabrication of graphene and graphene nanoribbons, 2D polymers and supramolecular polymers, 2D carbon-rich conjugated polymers for opto-electronic applications, energy storage and conversion, new energy devices and technologies. He has published more than 420 research articles which have attracted more than 32077 citations with H-index of 86. He has been awarded several prestigious prizes such as IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists (2009), Finalist of 3rd European Young Chemist Award, European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant Award (2012), Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship Award (2013), ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship (2014), Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, 2014), Highly Cited Researcher (Thomson Reuters, 2014-2017), Small Young Innovator Award (2017), Hamburg Science Award (2017), EU-40 Materials Prize (2018). He is an Advisory Board Member for Advanced Materials, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, ChemNanoMat, Energy Storage Materials, Small Methods and Chemistry -An Asian Journal. He is the Head of ESF Young Research Group "Graphene Center Dresden", and Working Package Leader of WP Functional Foams & Coatings for European Commission’s pilot project “Graphene Flagship”.
Academic Employment
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Administrative Staff
Sabine Strecker
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Secretary Sabine is a certified foreign language correspondent and joined the team of the Chair for Molecular Functional Materials in October 2014. She is working as secretary for Prof. Feng and assists the team in all administrative matters. ContactPhone: +49 351 / 463-43251 Office: Hempel Building, Mommsenstraße 4, room HEM 217 a |
Andrea Umlauft
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Secretary Andrea joined Prof. Feng´s group in January 2017 and assists the team in all administrative matters and is working as secretary. Her background is in accounting and assistance, from non-university environments. ContactPhone: +49 351 / 463-40417 Office: Hempel Building, Mommsenstraße 4, room HEM 217 a |
Technical Staff
Janett Beyer
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Lab Technician Janett is working as laboratory technician, supporting Prof. Feng's group in all technical issues. She is part of the team of the chair for Molecular Functional Materials since February 2016. Her background is in chemical analytics in the semiconductor industry. ContactPhone: + 49 – 351 / 463-39090 |
IT Administrator
Patrick Schaller
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IT-Admin Patrick joined the group in May 2016. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-36910 |
Scientific Staff
Wajdi Abdel-Haq
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PhD student ContactPhone: +49 - 351 / 463-43255 |
Daniel Becker
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PhD student ContactPhone: +49 - 351 / 463-43325 or -43986 |
Doreen Beyer
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PhD student Doreen is a PhD in the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials since December 2014. From 2009 to 2014 she studied chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden. Her previous research focused on polymer characterization. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43259 or -35413 |
Mino Borrelli
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PhD student Mino received his master degree from the Universtiy of Bologna in September 2017. He joined Professor Feng's group in November 2017 as PhD student focussing on energy conversion. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40400 |
Guangbo Chen
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PhD student Guangbo received his master degree in July 2016 from Northwest University, China. He joined Prof. Feng’s group as a PhD student from February 2017. His current research topic focuses on the synthesis of novel 2D nanomaterials and their applications in catalytic energy conversion. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-42178 |
Renhao Dong
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Research Group Leader Renhao received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from Shandong University in 2013. Since 01/2017, he is a research group leader at the Chair for Molecular Functional Materials in TUD. His current research interest focuses on synthesis of organic 2D crystals (2D polymers/COFs/MOFs) and their applications in electronics and energy technology. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40401 or -34932 |
Yubin Fu
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PhD student Yubin received his Master's Degree in March 2015 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His major is Organic Chemistry and his research area is synthesis of organic functional molecules. Since April 2015 he joined Professor Feng's group as a PhD. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43259 or -35057 |
Ronny Grünker
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Group Leader Ronny has a background in chemistry where he collected diverse knowledge in the fields of organic (diploma), inorganic (PhD) and macromolecular chemistry (PostDoc). In October 2014, he joined the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at cfaed. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39090 |
Junzhi Liu
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Research Group Leader Junzhi Liu received his Ph.D. Degree in January 2016 from Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz. Afterwards he joined Prof. Feng’s groups as a postdoc. Since April 2017 he is a research group leader at the Chair for Molecular Functional Materials in TUD, responsible for the curved and 3D carbon nanostructures, as well as their applications for organic electronics. ContactPhone: + 49 - 351 / 463 - 43269 |
Kejun Liu
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PhD student Kejun received his Bachelor’s degree in 2011 and Master’s degree in 2014 at the College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, China. He joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student from March, 2015. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40411 or -34966 |
Martin R. Lohe
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Industry Project Coordinator Martin received his PhD in Inorganic Chemistry in 2014. He has profound experience in the field of process development and optimization as well as up-scaling and commercializing inorganic specialty materials. In January 2015 he joined our team with the focus on upscaling the electrochemical exfoliation of graphene. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40405 or -43255 |
Thorsten Lohr
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PhD student Thorsten received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree from the University of Heidelberg and joined Prof. Feng’s group in June 2016 as PhD student. His current research interest focuses on the bottom-up organic synthesis of novel polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-32141 or -40673 |
Ji Ma
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PhD student Ji Ma received his Master's Degree in July 2015 from Fudan University, China. Since August 2015 he joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student. His current research topic focus on the organic synthesis and application of nanographene and graphene nanoribbons. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 - 463-32141 or 43269 |
Jason Melidonie
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PhD student Jason studied chemistry at the Technical University of Dresden from 2010 to 2015. He received his master’s degree in metal organic chemistry in the group of Prof. Knölker. Since November 2015 he joined the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials as a PhD student. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-32141 or -40673 |
Ajayakumar Murugan Rathamony
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Postdoc M. R. Ajayakumar was awarded Ph.D. in Chemical Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) in 2013. Afterwards, he carried out a postdoctoral research at Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (Spain). In October 2016, he joined the Chair for Molecular Functional Materials, cfaed as a visiting researcher where he is focusing on the synthesis of novel polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-43259 or -40667 |
Chandrasekhar Naisa
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Postdoc Naisa Chandrasekhar, received PhD (Chemistry) from University of Hyderabad (UoH), India in 2014. He has been working as a post-doctoral researcher in Prof. Feng’s group since August, 2015. His current research interests are focus on “design and synthesis of 2D-fully-conjugated organic polymers for electronics, energy conversion and storage applications. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40401 or -40671 |
SangWook Park
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PhD student SangWook Park received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Seoul National University (Korea) in 2008, M.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Tokyo (Japan) in 2011. From 2011 to 2016 he worked at GS Caltex Corporation as a research engineer. In August, 2016 He joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student. His research interests center on interfacial synthesis of 2D material. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-40411 |
Dominik Pastötter
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PhD student Dominik received his Master’s degree in the field of conjugated polymers from the University of Heidelberg (Prof. Bunz) in May 2017. After an internship at Wacker Chemie AG in Munich he joined Prof. Feng’s group as PhD student in November 2017. His current research interest focuses on the synthesis of novel 2D polymers and applications thereof. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-43325 |
Marcus Richter
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PhD student Marcus started his studies in chemistry at the TU Dresden in 2009. He received his Bachelor’s degree at the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry in 2012. In 2014 he finished his Master thesis about polymer hydrogels. Since December 2014 he is a PhD student at the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at cfaed. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43259 or -35283 |
Hafeesudeen Sahabudeen
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PhD student In September 2014, Hafees received his master degree in Nano biophysics at BIOTEC, TU Dresden. His previous research focused on surface characterization of Nanoparticles. He is a PhD student at the Chair of Molecular functional materials at cfaed since February 2015. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39089 or -34828 |
Ali Shaygan Nia
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Postdoc Ali received his PhD in June 2016 from “macromolecular chemistry department of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg”. He joined Prof. Feng’s group in July 2016 and his current research interest is on upscaling and modifying the electrochemical exfoliation of graphene. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43255 or -43058 |
Huanhuan Shi
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PhD student Huanhuan received her Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from Xiamen University in July 2017. Starting from October 2017 she shifted to Prof. Feng's group at TU Dresden. Her main research interest is the exfoliation of 2D materials from solutions and the applications in electronics. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43255 or -43058 |
Hanjun Sun
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Postdoc Hanjun received his PhD degree from the Changchun institute of applied chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in January 2017, then he joined Professor Feng's group as a post-doctor since February 2017. His current research interest focuses on low-dimensional carbon-based materials for energy conversion and storage applications. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40400 or -42177 |
Valeriya Tkachova
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Analytical Coordinator Valeriya obtained her PhD degree in Organic Chemistry in Ukraine. She joined Professor Feng's group as scientific researcher specialist in December 2014. Since January 2018 she is working as an analytical coordinator. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-34847 or -43252 |
Adrián Romaní Vázquez
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PhD student Adrián received his Master's Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2016. He joined Professor Feng's group in January 2017 as a PhD student, focusing on upscaling the production of electrochemically exfoliated graphene. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43255 or -43058 |
Faxing Wang
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PhD student Faxing received his Master's Degree in Physical Chemistry in June 2014 from Fudan University. Since December 2015 he joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student. His current research topic focus on 2D layered materials for novel energy storage applications. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40406 or -39532 |
Gang Wang
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Postdoc Gang received his PhD degree in physical chemistry from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in July 2016. Since then he joined Prof. Feng's group as a postdoc. His current research interest focuses on low-dimensional carbon-based novel devices for energy storage applications. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-42421 or -39091 |
Huaping Wang
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Postdoc Huaping received her Ph.D. degree in Organic Chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in July 2018. She joined in Prof. Feng’s group as a Postdoc from October 2018. Her current research focuses on the synthesis and applications of 2D polymers. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40401 |
Mingchao Wang
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PhD student Mingchao received his master’s degree in October 2016 from Technical University of Dresden. Since November 2016 he joined the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials as a PhD student. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-32141 or -40667 |
Xia Wang
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PhD student Xia Wang received her Master's Degree in July 2017 from Tsinghua University, China. Since October 2017 she joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student. Her current research topic focuses on the synthesis of novel 2D nanomaterials and their applications in energy storage. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40400 |
Zhiyong Wang
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PhD student Zhiyong received his Master degree in July 2017 from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He joined Prof. Feng’s group as a PhD student from September 2017. His current research interests focus on synthesis of 2D polymers and their applications in electronics and energy technology. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40411 or -42423 |
Fupeng Wu
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PhD student Fupeng received his Master degree in June 2018 from Soochow University. He joined Prof. Feng’s group as a PhD student in October 2018. His current research interest focuses on development of novel polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons or graphene nanoribbons for organic electronics. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39088 |
Kun Xu
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Postdoc Kun Xu is a postdoc in Prof. Feng's group since August 2015. His current research interest is organic materials. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39088 or -40667 |
Shunqi Xu
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PhD student Shunqi received his Master degree in July 2016 from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He joined Prof. Feng’s group as a PhD student from September 2016. His current research interests focus on organic synthesis of new two-dimensional materials and their applications in electronics. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39088 or -40667 |
Junjie Yang
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PhD student Junjie Yang received his Bachelor’s Degree in 2013 from Donghua University. In October 2018, he joined Prof. Feng’s Group as a joint PhD student. His current research interest is graphene-based material for energy storage. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39091 |
Minghao Yu
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Postdoc Minghao Yu received his Ph.D. degree in Material Physics and Chemistry from Sun Yat-sen University (China) in June 2017. He joined in Prof. Feng’s group as a Postdoc from December 2017. His research focuses on the development of nanostructured materials for application in energy storage and conversion. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-42184 |
Jian Zhang
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Research Group Leader Jian Zhang received his PhD degree from the institute of coal chemistry, university of Chinese academy of science in 2014. Since February 2015, he joined Professor Feng's group as a post-doctor. His research interest is 2D materials-based energy conversion and storage. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-39091 |
Jin-Jiang Zhang
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PhD student Jinjiang received his master’s degree in June 2018 from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Since August 2018, he joined into Feng’s group as a PhD student on the topic of “bottom-up synthesis of graphene nanostructures”. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-43259 |
Panpan Zhang
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PhD student Panpan received his Bachelor’s Degree in 2012 and Master’s Degree in 2015 from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. His current research interest is the controlled synthesis of novel 2D layered materials for electronic and energy applications. He joined Prof. Feng's group as a PhD student from July 2015. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40406 or -39532 |
Tao Zhang
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Postdoc Tao Zhang finished his PhD at the Chair of Macromolecular Chemistry in TU Dresden in 2015. Since January 2016, he joined in Prof. Feng's group as a Postdoc with the focus on synthesis and application of all conjugated/conductive 2D polymers. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-40411 or - 34189 |
Zhen Zhang
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Postdoc Zhen received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS) in June 2018. He joined in Prof. Feng’s group as a Postdoc from August 2018. His research focuses on 2D nanomaterials for energy conversion devices. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-..... |
Haixia Zhong
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Postdoc Haixia received her Ph.D Degree in inorganic chemistry from Changchun institute of applied chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences in January 2017. She joined Professor Feng's group in July 2017 as postdoc. Her current research interest focuses on 2D metal organic frameworks based materials for energy conversion and storage. ContactPhone: +49-351 / 463-40401 or -34938 |
EXCHANGE STUDENTS & GUEST RESEARCHER
Lucia Gemma Delogu
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Visiting Scientist Dr. Lucia Gemma Delogu served the University of Sassari, Italy, as Assistant Professor of Biochemistry (2012-2017). She has worked at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2007-2009), as visiting researcher at the Sanford-Burnham Institute of San Diego, CA, USA in 2008 and at the Department of Health and Human Services at the NIH in Bethesda, MD in 2013. Dr. Delogu has been appointed as Senior Visiting Professor under the “Program Excellence in Science” at Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany (2016, 2017). In 2011, she was selected as one of the “200 Best Young Talents of Italy” from the Italian Ministry of Youth (Rome, Italy). She served the European Commission as invited expert for review panels of FP7 FET Flagships. Beyond different National Grants she has been the Scientific Coordinator of two interdisciplinary European Projects on Nanomedicine involving 10 leading Institutions in EU and extra EU Countries including China, USA and Qatar. Dr. Delogu in 2018 joined the Institute of Pediatric Research in Padua, Italy where she is currently leading the ImmuneNano-lab. Within the Feng’s lab, as Marie Curie Individual Fellow, she is exploring future biomedical and immune-related applications of graphene nanoribbons. ContactPhone: + 49 - 351 / 463-..... |
Wenhui Niu
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PhD student Wenhui received her Bachelor degree in 2016 at the College of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sichuan University, China. She joined Prof. Feng's group as a joint PhD student from September 2017. Her current research topic focuses on synthesis of ultra-long single graphene nanoribbons. ContactPhone: +49 - 351 -463-43259 |
Jaehong Seo
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PhD student Jaehong Seo received his Bachelor`s Degree in 2017, and he is 2-year of Master-Ph.D combined course from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology. Since September 2018, he joined Prof. Feng`s Group as a visiting student. His current research topic is synthesis of key building blocks and extending this building blocks for the next polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and graphene nanoribbons. ContactPhone: +49 – 351 / 463-..... |
Lihuan Wang
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Postdoc Lihuan Wang joined in Prof. Feng's group with the focus on synthesis of 2D polymers and their applications in electronics and energy technology since 04/2016. ContactPhone: n/a |
Students
Leandro Ariel Santoro - Student Assistant (SHK)
Paula Kalenczuk - Student Assistant (WHK)
Verena Müller - Student Assistant (SHK)
Zhiyong Wang - Student Assistant (WHK)
ALUMNI & GUESTS & FORMER STAFF MEMBERS
Dr. Sheng Yang
Changlin Dong
Guofen Song
Dr. Reinhard Berger
Dr. Lanlan Wang
Jensheer Shamsudeen Seenath
Dr. Haiqing Liu
Yafei He
Dr. Zhikun Zheng (Professor at Sun Yat-sen University)
Verena Müller
Dr. Xiaodong Zhuang (Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Chongqing Yang (Postdoc at Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Dr. Stavroula Sfaelou
Antje Werner
Juliane Tippmann
Dr. Bishnu Prasad Biswal (Postdoc at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Romy Fleck
Dr. Wei Liu
M.Sc. Ulrike Polnick
Dr. Jiantong Li (Assistant Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Dr. Yang Hou (Professor at Zhejiang University)
Dr. Shaohua Liu (Professor at East China Normal University)
Zongsheng Hou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Hongyan Li (Michigan State University)
Dr. Xiang Zhu (Postdoc at Texas A&M University)
