Principal Investigator  

Dr. Youhong (Nancy) Guo

03. 2025 present      Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

03. 2022 – 03. 2025 Postdoc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology  (Prof. T. Alan Hatton)

09. 2021 – 02. 2022 Postdoc, The University of Texas at Austin                     

08. 2017 – 08. 2021 Ph.D. , The University of Texas at Austin (Prof. Guihua Yu)

09. 2012 – 06. 2017 M.S & B.S, University of California San Diego 

Services

Journal reviewer for Nature Sustainability, Nature Catalysis, Nature Chemical Engineering, Science Advances, Journal of the American Chemical Society, ACS Nano, Progress in Materials Science, ACS Materials Letters, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Acta Biomaterialia, npj Clean Water, npj Flexible Electronics, ACS Applied Nano Materials, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, One Earth, ChemSusChem, etc.



Teaching Experiences

Spring 2023 Kaufman Teaching Certificate Program, Teaching + Learning Lab, MIT

2017 – 2018 Teaching Assistant (Materials Engineering Lab, ME 134L), UT Austin 

2016 – 2017 Reader (Separation Process, CENG 122), UC San Diego 



Awards and Honors

2023            ACS PMSE Future Faculty Award (PMSE blog)

2023            Forbes 30 under 30 - Science, North America (MIT Alumni; UT TMI News; Forbes Profile

2022            Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering, Stanford

2022            Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering, MIT

2020 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad

2020 Materials Research Society Graduate Student Award (MRS website; UT TMI News)

2019 1st Place in Longhorn Student Poster Contest, UT Energy Institute (UT TMI News)

2017 George J. Heuer, Jr. Ph.D. Endowed Graduate Fellowship, Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin