Covalent Organic Frameworks

Pui Ching Lan is a chemist with expertise in porous materials and heterogeneous catalysis. He is currently working with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Germany on carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide capture, focusing on their conversion to valued commodities like higher alcohols and long chain hydrocarbon using porous mixed-metal oxides. He received his B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley (2014) and completed his post-bachelor training as a material scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In 2017, he joined Professor Shengqian Ma's research group at the University of South Florida who then moved to University of North Texas in 2020. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Texas in 2023.

Shengqian Ma is a Full Professor and the Welch Chair in Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Texas (UNT). He obtained his B.S. from Jilin University, China (2003) and graduated from Miami University with a Ph.D. (2008). After finishing a two-year Director's Postdoctoral Fellowship at Argonne National Laboratory, he joined the Department of Chemistry at University of South Florida 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 UNT as the Welch Chair in Chemistry. His research has been recognized by the IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists, the Young Investigator Award from American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry, and the NSF CAREER Award.