Group Members


Principal Investigator

Prof. Chia-Kuang (Frank) Tsung

Email: frank.tsung@bc.edu

Prof. Tsung received his B.A. degree in chemistry from the National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan in 1999. After two-year mandatory military service, he began his Ph.D. study with Professor Galen D. Stucky at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2002 and received his Ph.D. in 2007. In October 2007, he started his joint postdoctoral research in Prof. Peidong Yang’s and Prof. Gabor A. Somorjai’s groups at the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the chemistry faculty at Boston College in the summer of 2010. [Curriculum Vitae ]


Postdoctoral Fellows

We are looking for talented and enthusiastic postdocs to join our dynamic team. For full consideration, please send a letter of application, including a brief statement of research interests, C.V./resume, and the contact information for three references to Chia-Kuang (Frank) Tsung.


Graduate Students



All graduate students of backgrounds in physics, chemistry, and/or materials science are gladly welcome to join our young team.


Visiting Scholars

Talented and enthusiastic researchers are welcomed to join our dynamic research team as visiting scholars. For full consideration, please send a letter of application, including a brief statement of research interests, C.V./resume, and the contact information for three references to Chia-Kuang (Frank) Tsung.


Undergraduate Students

Any undergraduate students with energy and enthusiasm are gladly welcome to join our group.


Former Group Members


Former PHD Students


Dr. Brian Sneed
Ph.D. 2015
Dr. Lien-Yang Chou
Ph.D. 2016
Dr. Maggie Sheehan
Ph.D. 2016
Dr. Joe Morabito
Ph.D. 2017
Dr. Allison P. Yang
Ph.D. 2018
Dr. Ben P. Williams
Ph.D.2020
Dr. Yang Li 
Ph.D. 2021

Dr. Zhehui Li
Ph.D. 2018
Dr. Tom Rayder
Ph.D. 2020
Dr. Wei-Shang Lo 
Ph.D. 2022

Former Graduate Students


Baichuan Zhu
2011
Momo Yaguchi 
2011
Jia Zhuang
2012
Fred Zhang
2015
Connor Gallacher

Yang Tang
2011
Zipeng (Alex) Zhao
2012
Pan Hu
2013
Adam Bensalah
2020
Banruo Li


Former Postdoctoral Fellows


Dr. Chun-Hong Kuo
Postdoc 2010
chunhong@gate.sinica.edu.tw
Current: assistant research fellow at the Institute of Chemistry in Academia Sinica, Taiwan. [Link]
Dr. Xiangwen Liu
Postdoc 2016
Current: Postdoc in NUS
Dr. Melissa Fardy
Postdoctoral 2010
mfardy@calmail.berkeley.edu
Current: Staff Scientist
at Eve Biomedical
Dr. François Dabeux
Visiting Scholar 2010
francois.dabeux@ulb.ac.be
Current: Researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles

Former Exchange Scholars


Dr. Da-Chao Hong
2013
Li Wan
2014
Chia-I Yen
2015
Yu-Te Liao
2017
Yi-Da Huang
2018
Daniel Jalalpoor
 2013
Feichen Yang
2014
Yu-Hsiu Li
2016
Xiaoyuan Liu
2017
Shao-Chun Wang
2014
Yingze Cao
2014
Fu-Siang Liao
2017
Tz-Han Wei
2018
Sheng-Hong Chen
2014
Chane-Chen Wu
2015
Yu-Shen Hsu
2017
Shi-Hong Wu
2018

Former Undergraduate Students


Leo Lamontagne
Class of 2013
Joseph Palomba
Class of 2015
Maria Nero 
Class of 2015
Donald Gummow 
Class of 2017
Gregory Tam
Class of 2018
George Massey
Class of 2013
Rutvin Kyada
Class of 2015
Shunjia Molly Mao
Class of 2016
Ilektra Andoni 
Class of 2017
Nima Boluriaan
Class of 2019
Andrew Platt
Class of 2013
Chris Petroff
Class of 2015
Jane Yang 
Class of 2016
Seung Hea Jung
Class of 2018
Yucai Shao
Class of 2019
Casey Brodsky
Class of 2014
Michael Rudden 
Class of 2015
Matthew C Golden 
Class of 2017
Nick Ueng
Class of 2018
Noella D’Souza Class of 2020

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