Welcome to the Zhu research group

Xiaoyang Zhu is the Louis Nicolas Vauquelin Regents Professor of Chemistry at UT-Austin. He received a BS degree from Fudan University in 1984 and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 1989. After postdoctoral research with J. Mike White at UT-Austin and Gerhard Ertl at the Fritz-Haber-Institute, he joined the faculty at Southern Illinois University as an Assistant Professor in 1993. In 1997, he moved to the University of Minnesota as an Associate Professor, later a Full Professor and Merck endowed Professor. In 2009, Zhu returned to Austin and joined the Chemistry faculty. His honors include a Dreyfus New Faculty Award, a Cottrell Scholar Award, a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award, and Fellow of the American Physical Society. Among his professional activities, he serves on the editorial/advisory boards of Progress in Surface Science and Accounts of Chemical Research, and also as Chief Technology Officer at MicroSurfaces, Inc.
zhu @ cm.utexas.edu

Xiaoyang Zhu

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Current Group Members

	Tim Atallah, graduate student, nano-material based solar energy conversion.		Wai-lun Chan, postdoc, electron dynamics at organic semiconductor interfaces, femtosecond two-photon photoemission spectroscopy.		Annie Harding, Executive Assistant to XYZ.
	Adam Garland, graduate student: Controlling protein function and activity on surfaces.		Marlene Gutierrez, graduate student, electron transfer from nano materials, femtosecond spectroscopy.		Minh Tuan Trinh Postdoctoral fellow. Charge transfer & nanomaterials. Femtosecond spectroscopy.
	Nick Monahan (pictured with an unknow creature), graduate student, organics semiconductor interfaces, scanning probe microscopy.		Xiaoxi Wu, graduate student: nonlinear spectroscopy of charge separation at interfaces.		Jeong Won Kim, visiting scientist from Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS). Time resolved photoemission.
	Wesker Lei, graduate student: Quantum dot molecules - synthesis, assembly, imaging, and spectroscopy.		Josh Morris, graduate student: Charge separation dynamics in organic solar cells.		Cory Nelson, graduate student: Excitons and charge transfer from semiconductor quantum dots.
	Heungman Park, postdoc, charge separation at organic/inorganic semiconductor interfaces.		Kris Williams, graduate student, exciton and charge carrier dynamics in organic semiconductors.		John Tritsch, graduate student: Electron dynamics in nano materials, femtosecond two-photon photoemission spectroscopy.
			Lei Shen, postdoc, controlling protein activity on block copolymer nanopatterns, biomaterial interfaces.		Tyler West, Undergraduate student, Quantum dot molecules.

Recent Group Members

Chad Lindstrom, PhD 2006
now at Air Force Research Lab,

Greg Dutton , PhD 2006, now at NIST

Joo H. Kang, PhD 2005, now at Dow Chemical.

Travis Mills, PhD 2009, now Chem. faculty at Ridgewater college.

Brooke Timp, PhD 2009, now postoc at UMN.

Matthias Muntwiler, postdoc, now at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland.

Taewoon Cha, PhD 2005, now Senior Research Scientist at Samsung Corp. in Korea.

Yongseok Jun, PhD 2004, postdoc 2004-2005, now Professor at Ulsan Nat. Inst. Sci. & Technol., Korea

Yang Deng, PhD 2008, now postdoc at Yale Univ. School of Medicine

Matt Goertz, PhD 2009, now at Sandia National Lab.

Loren Kaake, postdoc, 2011, now at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Qingxin yang

Qingxin Yang, posdoc 2007-2009, now Professor of Physics at Harbin Institute of Technology, China.

Will

Will Tisdale, PhD 2010,now Assistant Professor of Chem. Engin. at MIT.

Vicent

Vincent Doyeux , visiting student, 2010, now at Université Joseph Fourier

Abe

Abe Wolcott, NSF postdoc fellow, 2011, now at Columbia University, NYC

Luis

Luis Miaja-Avila, postdoc, 2011, now at JILA, Collorado.

Paulin Brichon

Pauline Brichon, exchange student 2011, now at Université Joseph Fourier

Manuel

Manuel Ligges, visiting scientis, 2011, now at Universitaet Duisburg-Essen.

Raluca Gearba, postdoc, 2012, now at UT.

Andrei Dolocan, postdoc, 2010, now at UT

Kenrick Williams, PhD 2012.