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

  • Yifan Ping

    POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW

    B.S. in Chemistry, Xiamen University, 2016

    Ph.D. in Chemistry with Jianbo Wang, Peking University, 2021

    Postdoctoral Fellow with Jianbo Wang, The University of Hong Kong, 2024

  • 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

Graduate Students

  • Dana Gephart

    FIFTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

  • Abdulrahman Alfaraidi

    FIFTH 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

  • Paul Onnuch

    FOURTH YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

    B.S. in Chemistry with Daniel J. Weix, University of Wisconsin Madison, 2022

  • Johnson Zhou

    THIRD YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

  • Naoki Naito

    THIRD YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

    Scholar of Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation

  • Ariel Wang

    THIRD YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

    NSF-GRFP Fellow

  • Eva Bayer

    THIRD YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

    NSF-GRFP Fellow

  • Amelia Liu

    THIRD YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

    NSF-GRFP Fellow

  • Shangyu Li

    THIRD YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

  • Sophia Li

    THIRD YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

  • Jonah Downs

    SECOND YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

  • Jack Jiao

    FIRST YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

    Herchel Smith graduate research fellow

  • Jack Ranani

    FIRST YEAR GRADUATE STUDENT

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

Undergraduate Students

  • Dalton Raykowski

    Harvard University Class of 2026

  • Benjamin Ford

    Harvard University Class of 2026

  • Zuzanna Kowalski

    Harvard University Class of 2026

  • David Sauer

    Harvard University Class of 2027

  • Nicolas L’Huillier

    Harvard University Class of 2027

  • Gracelynne Hao

    Harvard University Class of 2028

  • Colin Bloom

    Harvard University Class of 2028

  • Joe Liang

    Harvard University of Class 2029

Visiting Scholars

  • Leo Kellermann

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

  • Nathan Jones

    B.S. in Chemistry, University of Oxford

  • Lily Schefer

    B.S. in Chemistry, ETH Zürich

    • 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)