People
Meet the Group

Weiwei Xie
Associate Professor of chemistry (2022-now)
Assistant Professor of chemistry (2016-2022)
NSF Career Award (2020)
Rainmaker Emerging Scholar for Research and Creative Activity from LSU (2020)
Beckman Young Investigator (2018)
Postdoc. Princeton University (2014-2016)
Ph.D. Iowa State University (2014)
B.S. Nankai University (2010)
Email: xieweiwe@msu.edu
Google Scholar Page at MSU Chemistry
Current Members

Mingyu Xu
Postdoc.
Ph.D. Iowa State University (2023)
Email: xumingy2@msu.edu

Jose L. Gonzalez Jimenez
Graduate Student (G4)
B.S. California State University, Fullerton
Email: gonz1079@msu.edu
Cheng Peng
Graduate Student (G2)
B.Eng. Tsinghua University
Email: pengch12@msu.edu

Nafiseh Salimiyan Rizi
Graduate student
Email: salimiya@msu.edu
Group Alumni

Matt Boswell
Current: Postdoc., Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ph.D. 2021-2026 in the Xie Lab
DOE SCGSR (2024)
B.S. Northern Michigan University

Haozhe Wang
Ph.D. 2020-2025 in the Xie Lab
B.S. Nankai University

Bennett Gamble
Graduate Student 2024-2025 in the Xie Lab
B.S. University of Alabama at Birmingham (2024)

Ranuri S. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage
Graduate Student (G4)
2021 MRS Fall Meeting, Best Poster Winners (2021)
B.S. University of Sri Jayewardenpura (2018)
Email: rsd96@chem.rutgers.edu

Yongqi Yang
Graduate Student 2021-2022 in the Xie Lab
B.S. Nanjing University (2020)
Current: Graduate Student, Rutgers University
Email: yy592@chem.rutgers.edu

Madalynn Marshall
Ph.D. 2017-2022 in the Xie Lab
DOE SCGSR (2019)
Coats Research Award (2019)
Postdoc., Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ph.D. Rutgers University (2022)
B.S. Iowa State University (2017)
Current: Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University
Email: mm3092@chem.rutgers.edu

Xin Gui
Ph.D. 2016-2020 in the Xie Lab
Coats Travel Award (2019)
Postdoc. Princeton University (2020-2022)
Ph.D. Louisiana State University (2020)
B.S. Nankai University (2016)
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Email: xig75@pitt.edu