University of California, Riverside
Team
About us
Collaborate, Innovate, Succeed!
We are a young research group in the Department of Chemistry at UC Riverside, established in July 2025! Our group is actively seeking motivated students and postdoctoral researchers to join us.
If you are excited about ultrafast spectroscopy, energy materials, and light-matter interactions, we'd love to hear from you. Please reach out to Yifan for more information!
Principal Investigator
Yifan Dong​
Chemistry, Physics, and
Materials Science & Engineering
Hometown: Dalian, Liaoning, China
Hobbies: making espresso, travel, exploring food cultures
2nd-year Graduate Student
Yao (Andrew) Hsiao
Physics
BS: National Chung Cheng University
Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan
Hobbies: playing video games, watching baseball
Favourite quote: Comparison is the thief of joy
1st-year Graduate Student
Duong (Kaleb) Nguyen
Chemistry
BS: Cal Poly Pomona
Hometown: Quang Ngai, Vietnam
Hobbies: playing video games, gym, going to music festivals​
1st-year Graduate Student
Katherine Franco
Chemistry
BS: Cal State San Bernardino
Hometown: Fontana, CA
Hobbies: collecting physical media, analog video recording, karaoke
Favourite quote: The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke