Grace Han, Ph.D.
Landsman Career Development Assistant Professor (Current)
Associate Professor (July 2024), Department of Chemistry, Brandeis University
Topic Editor, ACS Nano
Email: gracehan@brandeis.edu
Grace was born and raised in South Korea where she attended POSTECH and received BS in Chemistry. She spent a year in UC Berkeley and worked in the laboratory of Prof. Jeffrey Long to perform research in metal-organic frameworks. Then she pursued PhD in Chemistry at MIT with Prof. Timothy Swager, and her thesis focused on the development of n-type organic chromophores for photovoltaics. Grace joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT as a postdoctoral associate with Prof. Jeffrey Grossman in 2015, where she explored various research areas including solar thermal fuels, 2D materials, and atomic-resolution imaging of nanostructures. Grace joined the Department of Chemistry at Brandeis in July 2018 and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure (effective July 2024).
| 2024 Scialog Fellow | 2024 Moore Inventor Fellows Finalist | |
| 2023 DFG Mercator Fellow | 2023 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award | 2023 DoD DURIP Award |
| 2022 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow | 2022 NSF CAREER Award | 2022 AFOSR Young Investigator Research Program Award |
| 2022 ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Young Investigator | 2022 ACS Materials Au Rising Star | 2022 Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Mentoring Award |
| 2021 Royal Society of Chemistry Emerging Investigator, Journal of Materials Chemistry | 2020 Landsman Career Development Chair in the Sciences | 2019/2021 Provost Research Award |
| 2019-2023 SPROUT Research Award |
Graduate Students
Qianfeng Qiu
M.S. Chemistry
Sun Yat-sen University qianfengqiu720@brandeis.edu
Subhayan Chakraborty
M.S. Chemistry
IISER Pune
schakraborty@brandeis.edu
Han Nguyen
B.S. Chemistry
Worcester State University
quynhhan@brandeis.edu
Navneet Kaur
M.S. Chemistry
Guru Nanak Dev University
navneetkaur@brandeis.edu
Writam S.R. Choudhuri
M.S. Chemistry
IISER Pune
writams@brandeis.edu
Postdoctoral Associates
Junichi Usuba
Ph.D. Chemistry
Nagoya University
junichiusuba@brandeis.edu
Cijil Raju
Ph.D. Chemistry
IISER Thiruvananthapuram cijilraju@brandeis.edu
Anurag Mukherjee
Ph.D. Chemistry
IACS Kolkata
amukherjee@ brandeis.edu
Undergraduate Students
Karina Lee
Class of 2024
Brandeis University karinalee@brandeis.edu
Gustavo Sigelmann
Class of 2025
Brandeis University gsigelmann@brandeis.edu
Alumni
| Name | Brandeis Affiliation | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
| Alejandra Gonzalez | Graduate (Ph.D. Chemistry 2023) | TBD |
| Xiang Li | Graduate (Ph.D. Chemistry 2023) | Analytical Scientist at SEQENS |
| Sungwon Cho | Undergraduate (B.A. Chemistry 2023) | DDS Student NYU College of Dentistry |
| Joshua Wan | Undergraduate (B.S. Chemistry 2023) | Clinical Research Coordinator at MGH Radiation Oncology |
| My Le | Graduate (M.A. Chemistry 2023) | MBS Student at Rutgers University |
| Jooyeon Lee | Visiting Scholar (Fall 2022) | Postdoc at the University of Central Florida |
| Danielle Joubran | Undergraduate (REU Summer 2022) | Ph.D. Student at Princeton University |
| Mihael Gerkman | Graduate (Ph.D. Chemistry 2021) | Research Scientist at Mersana Therapeutics |
| Yuran Shi | Undergraduate (B.A./M.A. Chemistry 2021) | Ph.D. Student at Stanford University |
| Aaron Baublis | Undergraduate (B.S. Chemistry 2021) | Ph.D. Student at Rutgers University |
| Shuren Zhang | Graduate (M.S. Chemistry 2021) | Ph.D. Student at Beijing Normal University |
| Eli Schwartz | Graduate (M.A. Chemistry 2021) | Formulation Scientist at Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| Jennifer Taufan | Undergraduate (B.S. Chemistry 2020) | Technical Solutions Engineer at Epic Health Research Network |
| Eli Kengmana | Undergraduate (B.S. Chemistry/Biology 2020) | Ph.D. Student at Johns Hopkins |
| Maurice Windley | Undergraduate (B.S. Chemistry 2019) | Resident Assistant at Johns Hopkins |
| Maria Fonseca | Undergraduate Intern (Summer 2019) | Ph.D. Student at UC Berkeley |
| Oleg Kazakov | Postdoctoral Associate | Lecturer at the University of Rhode Island |
Mango
Teaching Assistant
Yoko
Thesis Assistant
Join us!
We’re looking for graduate students who are interested in the synthesis of organic materials for energy storage and conversion! Contact Grace directly to find out more about the opportunities.
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