People

PI: 

Xiaotong Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry,
Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories
Email: xiaotong_li@ncsu.edu
Office: Partners II, Room 1505 

Xiaotong was born and raised in China. She obtained her B.S. in chemistry from Nankai University, in Tianjin, China. Then she moved to the US to earn her Ph.D. in chemistry at Northwestern University, under the supervision of Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis on structure-property relationships of 2D halide perovskites. She conducted her postdoctoral research at California Institute of Technology, where she worked with Prof. Kimberly See on cathode materials for Li and Na-ion batteries. She joined the faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Organic and Carbon Electronics Laboratories at North Carolina State University in January 2024. 

Graduate students:

Thu Chu

First-year graduate student
Email: ttchu@ncsu.edu
Office: Partners II, Room 1525

Thu grew up in Vietnam and graduated from the University of Science – Ho Chi Minh City. During her B.S., she worked on Sodium-ion batteries with Dr. Phung ML Le. She joined the Li research group in the Fall of 2023.

 

 

Xincheng (Allen) Liu

First-year graduate student
Email: xliu225@ncsu.edu
Office: Partners II, Room 1525

Allen grew up in China. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree from Nankai University, China in 2019. He spent three years in research programs at Professor Wei Li’s novel nano-catalytic materials lab. In 2022-2024, he worked at Dr. Timothy D. Craggs’ lab on a research project in biophysical chemistry and received his Master’s Degree from the University of Sheffield. Allen joined the Li research group in Spring 2024.