The Team

Wenyang Gao
Assistant Professor
Chemistry Building 241
gaow@ohio.edu
Phone: 740.593.9894
(Curriculum Vitae)

Wenyang was born in Linyi, China in 1989. He received his B.S. degree from Sun Yat-sen University (China) in 2011, conducting research under the tutelage of Professors Tong-Bu Lu and Long Jiang. He earned his Ph.D. from University of South Florida in 2016 under the guidance of Professor Shengqian Ma. In 2017 he began his postdoctoral studies in the group of Professor David Powers at Texas A&M University. Before joining Ohio University, Wenyang was an assistant professor at New Mexico Tech between 2020 and 2023. His research program focuses on leveraging nanospace confined in porous materials for energy-related critical issues.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Zhuorigebatu Tegudeer
Ph.D. student
08/2021 –

Shehnaz
Ph.D. student
01/2024 –

Terry Plant-Collins
M.S. student
05/2024 –

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS

Daniel Gabel
Undergraduate student
01/2024 –

Caleb Lawson
Undergraduate student
02/2024 –

ALUMNI at Ohio University

Undergraduate Students

Terry Plant-Collins (01/2024 – 05/2024, Class of 2024), M.S. student at Ohio University

ALUMNI at New Mexico Tech

Graduate Students

Vance Miller (08/2020 – 05/2021), New Mexico Scientific Laboratory Division

Fillipp Edvard Salvador (05/2022 – 05/2023, M.S.), Ph.D. student at University of Wisconsin–Madison

Undergraduate Students

Fillipp Edvard Salvador (02/2021 – 04/2022, Class of 2022), M.S. student at New Mexico Tech

Kaoru Shimada (06/2021 – 04/2022, Class of 2022), M.S. student at Texas Tech University

James Ruff (08/2021 – 04/2022. Class of 2022), Ph.D. student at New Mexico Tech

Adrian Jung (10/2021 – 05/2023. Class of 2023)

Jesus Barajas (02/2022 – 04/2023)