Dr Ma Research Group



(September, 2023)

First Row: Mansi Kapoor, Dr. Gaurav Verma, Dr. Peter Vannatta, Dr. Yin Zhang, Dr. Ma, Amit Gupta, Wenlu Fan, Amena Khatoon (left to right)s

Second Row: Dr. Bin Liang, Dr. Hassan Rabaa, Dr. Kui Tan, Dr. Sayan Maiti, Roknuzzaman, Kyle Martin, Dr. Joshua Phipps (left to right)



Principle Investigator, Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Research Associates, Graduate Students, Visting Scholars and Students, Group Alumni



Principal Investigator: Dr. Shengqian Ma, Full Professor, Robert A Welch Chair in Chemistry







Shengqian Ma obtained his B.S. degree from Jilin University, China in 2003, and graduated from Miami University (Ohio) with a Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Hong-Cai Joe Zhou (currently at Texas A&M University) in 2008. After finishing two-year Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined the Department of Chemistry at University of South Florida (USF) as an Assistant Professor in August 2010. He was promoted to an Associate Professor with early tenure in 2015 and to a Full Professor in 2018. In August 2020, he joined the Department of Chemistry at University of North Texas (UNT) as the Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry.

Learn more about Dr. Ma from Author Profile of Angewandte Chemie



Contact Information


Shengqian Ma (CV)
Department of Chemistry
University of North Texas
CHEM 305D, 1508 W Mulberry St
Denton, Texas 76201


Phone: 940-369-7137
Fax: 940-565-4318
E-mail: Shengqian.Ma@unt.edu


Selected Awards & Honors





Research Professors/Scientists (up)


Dr. Kui Tan
Research Associate Professor
May 2023 - present
PhD, University of Texas-Dallas
Kui.Tan@@unt.edu



Postdoctoral Research Associates (up)



Dr. Yin Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Associate
November 2019 - present
PhD, Peking University, China
Yin.Zhang@@unt.edu


Dr. Gaurav Verma
Postdoctoral Research Associate
January 2021 - present
PhD, University of South Florida
Gaurav.Verma@unt.edu


Dr. Joshua Phipps
Postdoctoral Research Associate
September 2022 - present
PhD, University of Arkansas
Joshua.Phipps@unt.edu




Dr. Peter Vannatta
Postdoctoral Research Associate
September 2023 - present
PhD, University of Utah
Peter.Vannatta@unt.edu


Dr. Sayan Maiti
Postdoctoral Research Associate
November 2023 - present
PhD, Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
Sayan.Maiti@unt.edu











Graduate Students (up)



Kyle Martin
PhD Candidate, August 2021 - present
BS, University of North Texas
KyleMartin6@my.unt.edu

Wenlu Fan
PhD Candidate, August 2021 - present
BS, Nanjing Normal University, China
WenluFan@my.unt.edu

Mansi Kapoor
PhD Candidate, August 2022 - present
BS, Delhi University, India; MS,Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India 
mansikapoor@my.unt.edu


Roknuzzaman
PhD Candidate, August 2022 - present
BS/MS, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
FnuRoknuzzaman@my.unt.edu


Amena Khatoon
PhD Candidate, January 2023 - present
BS/MS, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh
AmenaKhatoon@my.unt.edu


Amit Gupta
PhD Candidate, October 2023 - present
BS, University of Allahabad, India; MS, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India
amitgupta2@my.unt.edu


Sara Alinejad
PhD Candidate, March 2024 - present
BS, University of Tehran, Iran; MS, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
saraalinejad@my.unt.edu














Visting Scholars and Students (up)



Dr. Hassan Rabaa
Visiting Scholar
May 2022 - present
Ibn Tofail University, Morocco






Group Responsibilities



Available Positions



Group Alumni (up)



Graduate Students

Zachary Magnuson (PhD, Fall 2023)

Yanpei Song (PhD, Spring 2023)

Current: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Steve Lan (PhD, Spring 2023)

Current: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Yixuan Xu

 

Changjia Zhu (MS, Fall 2022)

 

Xueying Ge (PhD, Fall 2022)

Current: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Texas A&M University/School of Engineering Medicine

Junyu Ren (PhD, Spring 2022)

Current: Postdoctoral Research Associate at National University of Singapore

Xiaoliang Wang (PhD, Fall 2021)

Current: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Northwestern University

Harsh Vardhan (PhD, Fall 2020)

Current: Rice Academy Fellow at Rice University  

Gaurav Verma (PhD, Fall 2020)

Current: Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of North Texas

Meng Chen (PhD, Fall 2020)

Current: Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, China

 

Chuan Shan (Fall 2020)

Briana Aguila (PhD, Summer 2019)

Current: Assistant Professor at Francis Marion University

Bhagya Gunatilleke (MS, Fall 2018)

Current: PhD candidatein Department of Physics at USF

Chavis Stackhouse (PhD, Spring 2018)

Current: Postdoctoral associate at Texas A&M University

Kia Williams (PhD, Fall 2017)

Current: Scientist at Methrohm USA

Wenyang Gao (PhD, Fall 2016)

Current: Assistant Professor at New Mexico Tech University

Matthew Chrzanowski (Spring 2015)

Tran Hoang (MA, Spring 2015)

Lacy Lux (MA, Spring 2015)

Yao Chen (PhD, Summer 2014)

Current: Professor at Nankai University, China

Le Meng (MS, Spring 2012)

Postdoctoral Research Associates

 

Dr. Bin Liang (Jan. 2021 - Jan. 2024)

Current: Professor at Nankai University, China

Dr. Bin Wang (Jan. 2021 - Aug. 2023)

Current: Associate Professor at Soochow University, China

Dr. Chengxia Chen Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2023)

Current: Associate Professor at Sun Yat-senl University, China

Dr. Yingxiang Ye (Jan. 2020 - Jan. 2023)

Current: Professor at Fujian Normal University, China

Dr. Weijie Zhang (June 2019 - May 2022)

Current: Postoctoral Associate at University of Virginia

Dr. Lingshan Gong (Jan. 2020 - Jan. 2021)

Current: Associate Professor at Fujian Normal University, China

Dr. Yao Jiang (Nov. 2019 - Nov. 2020)

Current: Associate Professor at Hefei University of Technology, China

Dr. Zheng Niu (Mar. 2015 - Dec. 2019)

Current: Professor at Soochow University, China

Dr. Qi Sun (May 2015 - Sep. 2019)

Current: Professor at Zhejiang University, China

Dr. Xili Cui (Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019)

Current: Professor at Zhejiang University, China

Dr. Sanjay Kumar (Dec. 2014 - Mar. 2016)

Current: Assistant Professor at M.M. Modi College, India

Dr. Wendy Liu (Apr. 2015 - Nov. 2015)

Current: Research Scientist, Merck-Taiwan

Dr. Baiyan Li (Oct. 2012 - Jul. 2015)

Current: Professor at Nankai University, China

Dr. Xi-Sen Wang (Jan. 2011 - Jun. 2014)



Research Scientists/Scholars

Dr. Hui Yang (Sep. 2016 - Dec. 2019)

Current: Professor at North China Electric Power University

Dr. Ziqi Yang (Jan. 2018 - Jun. 2018)

Dr. Jason Perman (Jul. 2016 - Jul. 2018)

Current: Scientist at Anton Paar

Dr. Yiming Zhang (Oct. 2012 - Jul. 2015)

Current: Instrument Scientist at Nankai University, China



Visting Scholars and Students

     

Sasaki Kohki (June-July 2024)

Dr. Islam M. El-Sewify (Dec. 2022 -June 2023)

Fanchen Meng (Dec. 2019 - Dec. 2020)

Dr. Lei Zhang (Nov. 2019 - Nov. 2020)

Dr. Qingxing Guan (Nov. 2019 - Nov. 2020)

Dr. Qingzhi Liu (Nov. 2019 - Nov. 2020)

Jialu Li (Oct. 2019 - Oct. 2020)

Sai Wang (Oct. 2019 - Oct. 2020)

Dr. Xinyan Dong (Apr. 2019 - Aug. 2020)

Dr. Xianqiang Huang (Aug. 2019 - Aug. 2020)

Dr. Weina Wu (Mar. 2019 - July 2020)

Dr. Yuan Wang (Mar. 2019 - July 2020)

Dr. Wenwen He (May 2019 - May 2020)

Dr. Qi Wang (Apr. 2019 - Apr. 2020)

Dr. Xiaolong Han (Apr. 2019 - Apr. 2019)

Lei Zhang (Nov. 2019 - Feb. 2020)

Yanming Zhao (Oct. 2017 - Oct. 2019)

Yajie Yang (Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2019)

Dr. Wu Zhang (Dec. 2018 - Dec. 2019)

Dr. Yanyan Ji (Dec. 2018 - Dec. 2019)

Xiaorui Li (Sep. 2017 - Sep. 2019)

Kulandaivel Sivasankar (Apr. 2019 - Jul. 2019)

Dr. Sisi Feng (Aug. 2018 - Aug. 2019)

Linxiao Hou (Feb. 2018 - Feb. 2019)

Xun Wang (Sep. 2016- Sep. 2018)

Boxuan Yu (Jan. 2018 - Sep. 2018)

Yi Chen (Aug. 2018 - Sep. 2018)

Dr. Yuxiu Sun (Sep. 2016- Sep. 2017)

Dr. Feng Guo (Oct. 2015 - Aug. 2017)

Chung-Wei Fu (Oct. 2015 - Apr. 2017)

Dr. Jie Sun (Mar. 2016 - Mar. 2017)

Dr. Lisheng Wang (Mar. 2016 - Aug. 2016)

Hongming He (Jun. 2015 - Jun. 2016)

Weijie Zhang (Dec. 2014 - Jan. 2016)

Dr. Yuchuan Cheng (Mar. 2015 - Apr. 2016)

Chen-Yen Tsai (Sep. 2015 - Apr. 2016)

Dr. Yang Wang (Jul. 2014 - Jun. 2015)

Dr. Xiuli Wang (Nov. 2013 - Jan. 2014)

Thomas Bougattaya (Apr. 2011 - Aug. 2011)