Grace Han, Ph.D.
Landsman Career Development Assistant Professor, 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.
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
2019-2022 SPROUT Research Award
Postdoctoral Associates
Undergraduate Students
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
Karina Lee
Class of 2024 Brandeis University karinalee@ brandeis.edu
Gustavo Sigelmann
Class of 2025 Brandeis University gsigelmann@ brandeis.edu
Graduate Students
Alejandra Gonzalez
B.S. Chemistry UCLA alegonzalez@ brandeis.edu
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 U quynhhan@ brandeis.edu
Navneet Kaur
M.S. Chemistry Guru Nanak Dev U navneetkaur@ brandeis.edu
Alumni
Name Brandeis Affiliation Current Position
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) Ph.D. Student at Chungbuk University, Korea
Danielle Joubran Undergraduate (REU Summer 2022) Undergraduate at Smith College
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.