People

Principal Investigator

Dr. Jinghua Li, Assistant professor

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chronic Brain Injury Program

Postdoc (2016-2019), MSE, Northwestern University (Advisor: Prof. John A. Rogers)

Ph.D. (2011-2016), Chemistry, Duke University (Advisor: Prof. Jie Liu)

B.S. (2007-2011), Biological Science, Shandong University

Office: 491 Watts Hall

Phone: 614-292-9743

Email: li.11017@osu.edu

Awards

Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Chemistry 2025
ACS Materials Au Rising Star 2024
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award 2024
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Trailblazer Award 2024
Lumley Research Award 2024
OSU CBI Paper of the Year 2024
Nanoscale Emerging Investigator 2024
The Ohio State University Early Career Innovator of the Year 2023

Graduate Students

Yizhen Jia
Chunyu Yang
Qi Wang
Shaoru Cheng
Akhil Canumalla

Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers

Yan Dong (2020-2022). Placement: Associate Professor at China University of Petroleum.

PhD students

Shulin Chen (2020-2024). Placement: Postdoctoral researcher at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Tzu-Li Liu (2020-2024). Placement: Postdoctoral researcher at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago.

MS students

Prasad Nithianandam (2021-2023). Placement: Research Associate at Nemours Children’s Hospital.

Undergraduate Students

Billings Amoah (2024, NSF REU)
Sarah Kolnicki (2023, NSF REU)
Hongye Chen (2022)
Yiqun Li (2022)
Ruihang Deng (2022)
Zecheng Li (2022)
Samuel Gillespie (2021-2022)
Sharolyn Balbaugh (2021-2022, co-advisor with Dr. David Hoezle and Dr. Asimina Kiourti)
Jewelia Smith (2021)
Keyan Matar (2021)
Xueji Zhao (2021)
Xianhao Zhang (2021)
Zexu Chen (2020)
Lexi Biondo (2020)

High School Students

Christopher Lee (St. Charles Preparatory School, 2023)
Neil Ramesh (Metro Early College High School, 2023)
William Malerich (St. Charles Preparatory School, 2022)
Jack Barker (Metro Early College High School, 2022)
Thomas Alston (Metro Early College High School, 2021)