Dr. Pengfei Li
Principal Investigator
08/2020-Present Assistant Professor of Chemistry,
Loyola University Chicago
01/2018-08/2020 Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
(Advisor: Dr. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer)
09/2016-12/2017 Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(Advisor: Dr. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer)
08/2016 Ph.D. in Chemistry, Michigan State University
Ph.D. Dissertation: Advances in Metal Ion Modeling
(Advisor: Dr. Kenneth M. Merz. Jr.)
07/2011 B.S. in Chemistry, Xiamen University
(Advisor: Dr. Zexing Cao)
Research Team
Alumni
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Dr. Madelyn Smith, PhD student, Fall 2020-Summer 2025, graduated with distinction
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Dr. Yang Wei, postdoctoral researcher Fall 2021-Summer 2023, current postdoc at Boston College​
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Prof. David Benson (Calvin University, joint visiting scholar of the Merz Group and Li group during Fall 2022)
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Kim Piehl, BS then MS researcher, Fall 2022-Spring 2025, graduated
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Griffin Hall, undergraduate researcher, Summer 2024-Spring 2025, graduated
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Diana Lambropoulos, undergraduate researcher, Spring 2024-Spring 2025, current graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania
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Brendan Nieukirk, undergraduate researcher, Fall 2020-Spring 2022, current Ph.D. student at Nortre Dame
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Juveria Fatima, undergraduate researcher, Fall 2020-Spring 2022, graduated
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Simran Patel, undergraduate researcher, Fall 2020-Spring 2022, graduated
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Stephanie Lorbes, undergrauate researcher Summer 2022-Spring 2023
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Victoria Marshall, undergraduate researcher, Summer 2022-Spring 2023, current graduate student in optometry school)
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Nathaniel Belshan, undergraduate researcher, Fall 2022-Spring 2024, graduated
Get in Touch
If you have any question for me about the Li research group, you can contact me through email: pli4 [at] luc.edu.