About Magali Ferrandon:
Magali obtained her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She spent three years as a post-doc at Argonne National Laboratory. She now operates and maintains the High-Throughput Research Laboratory in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division.

About David Kaphan:
David Kaphan is a staff scientist in the Catalysis Science Program in the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his PhD in 2016 from the University of California–Berkeley and his BS in 2012 from the University of Rochester. His research at Argonne National Laboratory is focused on mechanistic investigation of supported organometallic catalysis.

About Neil Schweitzer:
Neil obtained his B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Toledo, his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan, and spent two years as a post-doc at Argonne National Lab. He started as the CleanCat lab manager at Northwestern University in January of 2013. His skills and expertise include traditional catalyst synthesis, reactor testing, x-ray adsorption spectroscopy, diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy, and temperature programmed experiments.

About Ryan Hackler:
Ryan obtained his B.S. in Chemistry at Western Washington University in 2014 and Ph.D. in Chemistry at Northwestern University in 2019. His work as a postdoc at the Argonne National Laboratory now focuses on the synthesis and characterization of ALD-prepared thin films and nanoparticles for heterogeneous catalysis.

About Jian Liu:
Jian Liu obtained his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Binghamton University-SUNY in 2015. His research interests focus on studying MOF-supported heterogeneous catalysts.

About Katie McCullough:
Katie obtained her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 2016 and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 2021. Her work as a postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory will focus on plastic upcycling and high throughput experimentation.

About Michael G. Taylor:
Education:
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh (2019)
B.S. (hons) in Chemical Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2013)
Research Interests:
Accelerated materials discovery

About Xingjie Wang:
Xingjie was born in Hainan, China. He received his B.S. (2015) and Ph.D. (2019) degree from South China University of Technology (SCUT) under the supervision of Prof. Zhong Li. He joined Prof. Omar Farha’s group at Northwestern University as a postdoctoral researcher in 2020. His current research interest is related to synthesis of isostructural porous materials for heterogeneous catalytic applications, as well as relationships exploration between the structure and properties.

About Dihua Wu:
Education:
Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (2017)
B.S. in Materials Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China (2012)

About Xuan Zhang:
Education: Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Current research focus: MOF design and synthesis for targeted catalysis.

About Suman Bhaumik:
I am a graduate student in the group of Prof. Donald Truhlar at the Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota. My research interest is in modeling reactions on metal surfaces.

About Zhihengyu Chen:
Education:
B.S. in Chemistry, Nankai University (2018)
B.E. in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University (2018)
Research Interests:
Structural analysis of solid materials

About Emily Cheng:
I am a graduate student in Chemical and Biological Engineering department at Northwestern. My research interests include synthesizing and characterizing bulk and supported molybdenum sulfide catalysts for light alkane dehydrogenation.

About Saumil Chheda:
Education:
B. Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, India (2018)
Research Interests:
Computational catalysis on Metal-Organic Frameworks

About Rebecca Combs:
Education:
B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, Irvine
Research Interests:
Green materials and catalysis

About Yuexing Cui:
Yuexing Cui was born in Beijing, China. He received his B.S. (2014) from the University of Delaware. He joined Prof. Joseph Hupp and Prof. Omar Farha’s groups at Northwestern University as a graduate student in 2014. His research interested is related to the functionalization of Metal-organic framework with metal oxides for heterogeneous catalysis.

About Timothy Goetjen:
Timothy (Tim) Goetjen grew up in New Jersey and received a B.A. (2017) in both Chemistry and Computer Science from Rutgers University – New Brunswick. He conducted undergraduate research on electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction under the supervision of Prof. G. Charles Dismukes. He joined Prof. Omar K. Farha and Prof. Joseph T. Hupp’s groups at Northwestern University as a graduate student in Fall 2017. His research interests include energy conversion and storage as well as general catalytic applications of MOFs as both catalysts and supports.

About Kenton Hicks:
Kenton Hicks was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. (2017) in Biochemistry and French from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He then came to Northwestern to pursue his chemistry PhD, where he joined Professor Omar Farha’s group and Professor Justin Notestein’s group (2017). His research interests include heterogeneous catalysis and organometallic chemistry.

About Karam Idrees:
Education:
B.S. in Chemistry, Millersville University (2018)
Research interests:
I am studying the effects and applications of functionalized Metal-Organic Frameworks in catalysis

About Siriluk Kanchanakungwankul:
Education:
M.Sc. in Chemistry, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (2017)
Research interests:
The Quantum effect of double hydrogen transfer in porphycene on the metal surfaces.

About Daniel King:
I am interested in developing high-throughput applications of the multireference methods we develop in the Gagliardi group. I believe that the application of these high-quality methods on a large scale is likely to reveal new physics for a wide array of interesting systems and provide high-quality training data for the development of new machine learned and density functional theories.

About Ellen Monzo:
Education:
B.S. Chemistry, University of Minnesota Duluth
Research Interests:
Materials for sustainable energy

About Aditya Nandy:
Education:
B.S. in Chemical Engineering at U.C. Berkeley
Research Interests:
Light alkane oxidation and small molecule activation on open shell transition metals, experimental data mining

About Riddhish Pandharkar:
Education: M.Sc. in Chemistry + B.E. in Electronics and Electrical Engineering, BITS-Pilani, Goa, India (2017)

About Steven Prinslow:
Education:
B.A., Austin College (2017)
Research Interests:
Mixed-metal MOFs

About Julian Schmid:
Julian Schmid received his B. Sc in 2016 and his M. Sc. in Chemistry in 2019 from Technical University of Munich (TUM). He is currently working as Post Master Research Associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. His work is focused on mechanistic studies in the conversion of biomass and fossil fuel derived hydrocarbons on heterogeneous materials.

About Thais Scott:
Education:
B.S. University of Richmond (2017)
Research Interests:
Catalysis and MC-PDFT Development

About Hafeera Shabbir:
I am a 2nd year PhD student in Dr. Getman's lab at Clemson University. My research interest is in computational catalysis in particular kinetic modelling. I hold a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and have 3 years of work experience in petrochemical and oil and gas industries.

About Zoha Syed:
Education:
B.S. in Chemistry + B.A. in Biochemistry, University of Washington Seattle (2017)
Research interests:
I am studying surface organometallic chemistry and applications of MOFs in catalysis.

About Stephen Vicchio:
Stephen received his B.S. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and his M.S. from the University of Michigan. As a graduate student at Clemson University, Stephen’s research focuses on computational catalysis in Metal-Organic Frameworks.

About Qining Wang:
Education:
B.A. in Chemistry, Rutgers University – New Brunswick (2018)
Research interests:
MOF-supported sulfide catalysts for hydrogenation

About Ying Yang:
Education:
B.S. in Chemistry, Nankai University (2017)
B.E. in Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University (2017)
Research Interests:
Using MOFs as catalyst support for gas phase catalysis

About Ben Yeh:
Education:
B.S in Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh (2018)
Research Interests:
Computational and experimental catalysis on metal-organic frameworks

About Dayou Zhang:
Education:
B.S. in Chemistry, Joint Institute of University of Sheffield and Nanjing Tech University Research
Research interests:
Computational study of inorganometallic systems