Principal Investigator

Richard Y. Liu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

About Richard 

Lab Administrator

Ashley Richardson

Post-Doctoral Researchers

  • Michael Purdy

    POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

    B.S./M.S in Chemistry with Iain McCulloch, Imperial College London, 2018

    Ph.D. in Physics with Hugo Bronstein, University of Cambridge, 2023

  • Zihang Deng

    POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

    B.S. in Pharmaceutical Science, Tianjin University, 2019

    Ph.D. in Chemistry with Jeffrey Johnston, Vanderbilt University, 2024

  • Yongrui Luo

    POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

    B.S. in Chemistry, Changdong University, 2019

    Ph.D. in Chemistry with Qilong Shen, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, 2024

  • Shorooq Abdulrhman Alomar

    POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

    Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering with Omar F. Mohammed, KAUST, 2025

    Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • Anh Trinh

    B. Eng. in Chemical and Biological Engineering with Takashi Ooi, Nagoya University, 2020

    Ph.D. in Chemistry with Jennifer M. Schomaker, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2026

Graduate Students

  • Dana Gephart

    SIXTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B.S. in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology, 2020

  • Abdulrahman Alfaraidi

    SIXTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B.S. in Chemical Eng., University of Southern California, 2019 

    M.S. in Materials Science and Eng. with Jorge Gascon, KAUST, 2021

    KAUST Gifted Student Program Scholarship

  • Johnson Zhou

    FOURTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B.S. Chemistry with Mingji Dai and Chris Uyeda, Purdue University, 2023

  • Naoki Naito

    FOURTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B. Eng. in Chemistry and Biotechnology with Kyoko Nozaki, University of Tokyo, 2023

    Scholar of Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation

  • Ariel Wang

    FOURTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B.S. in Chemical Biology with Ting Xu and John Dueber, University of California-Berkeley, 2023

    NSF-GRFP Fellow

  • Eva Bayer

    FOURTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B.S. in Chemistry, B.A. in Math with Daniel Seidel, University of Florida, 2023

    NSF-GRFP Fellow

  • Amelia Liu

    FOURTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    A.B. in Chemistry with Paul Chirik, Princeton University, 2023

    NSF-GRFP Fellow

  • Shangyu Li

    FOURTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    HBSc. in Chemistry with Mark Lautens, University of Toronto, 2023

  • Sophia Li

    FOURTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B.S. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology with Guangbin Dong, University of Chicago, 2023

  • Jonah Downs

    THIRD YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B.S. in Chemistry with Michael J. Krische, University of Texas at Austin, 2024

  • Jack Jiao

    SECOND YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B. Eng. in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering with Alexander W. Schuppe, Vanderbilt University, 2025

    Herchel Smith graduate research fellow

  • Jack Ranani

    SECOND YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B.S. in Biophysical Chemistry with Christopher Sandford, Dartmouth College, 2025

Undergraduate Students

  • Gracelynne Hao

    Harvard University Class of 2028

  • Joe Liang

    Harvard University of Class 2029

  • Anthony Wang

    Harvard University Class of 2029

  • Natalie Bonsi

    Harvard University Class of 2029

  • Alexander Dudek

    Harvard University Class of 2029

  • Isabelle Agarwal

    Harvard University Class of 2028

Visiting Scholars

  • Leo Kellermann

    B. Sc. in Chemistry with Frank Glorius, University of Münster, 2024

    • Polpum Onnuch Graduate Student (August 2022 — August 2026)

    • Lily Schefer Visiting Scholar (October 2025 — May 2026)

    • Nathan Jones Visiting Scholar (September 2025 — May 2026)

    • Colin Bloom Undergraduate Student (August 2025 — May 2026)

    • Nicholas L’Huillier Undergraduate Student (September 2024 — May 2026)

    • David Sauer Undergraduate Student (September 2024 — May 2026)

    • Zuzanna Kowalski Undergraduate Student (August 2024 — May 2026)

    • Benjamin Ford Undergraduate Student (May 2024 — May 2026)

    • Dalton Raykowski Undergraduate Student (February 2024 — May 2026)

    • Yifan Ping Postdoctoral Fellow (January 2023 — August 2025)

    • Yoshiya Sekiguchi Postdoctoral Fellow (January 2023 — August 2025)

    • Nathan Faialaga Postdoctoral Fellow (January 2023 — June 2025)

    • Khash Rajabimoghadam Postdoctoral Fellow (July 2022 — March 2025)

    • Isabelle Leibler NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow (July 2023 — November 2024)

    • Qingyang Cui Visiting Undergraduate Student (June 2024 — August 2024)

    • Yizhou Tong Visiting Undergraduate Student (June 2024 — August 2024)

    • Nicholas Su Visiting Undergraduate Student (June 2024 — October 2024)

    • Laine RoperUndergraduate Student (September 2023 — May 2024)

    • Mustafa Mohamadomar High School Lab Pathways Summer Research Program (June 2024 — July 2024)

    • Mayar Alhelaili Visiting Undergraduate Student (May 2024 — July 2024)

    • Matthew Kung Post Baccalaureate (September 2023 — May 2024)

    • Nina Ni Undergraduate Student (September 2022 — May 2024)

    • Beverly Fu Undergraduate Student (January 2023 — March 2024)

    • Taobo Wang Visiting Graduate Student (May 2023 — December 2023) 

    • Jennifer Tran Masters Student (July 2023 — February 2024) 

    • Cierra Brown Undergraduate Student (January 2023 — December 2023) 

    • Eion Chua Undergraduate Student (September 2022 — December 2023)

    • Kranthi Ramagonolla Postdoctoral Fellow (February 2023 — September 2023)

    • Ella Miller Undergraduate Student (July 2022 — June 2023)

    • Magdalena (Maggie) Kenar Lab Administrator (July 2022 — June 2023)

    • Richard Darkwa Undergraduate Student (July 2022 — May 2023)

    • Jayden Thomas Visiting Undergraduate Student (April 2023 — June 2023)