Group Members

The PI

Linqin Mu

Assistant Professor

[email protected]

Mu loves battery research that she cannot stop herself.

Postdoc researchers

Kumlachew Zelalem Walle

Ming Chi University of Technology, Battery Research Center of Green Energy, 2022

[email protected]

Ph.D candidates

Yuwei Zhu

Materials Science and Engineering, ASU, 2023 fall, [email protected]

MS, Materials Science and Engineering, ASU, 2023

BS, Chemistry, East China University of Science and Technology, 2020

Yuwei is passionate about the battery research.

Yunyuan Lu

Materials Science and Engineering, ASU, 2024 fall, [email protected]

MS, Materials Science and Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, 2022

BS, Applied Chemistry, Zhuhai College of Jilin University, 2021

Yunyuan is interested in developing advanced battery materials and advanced characterizations.

Master students

Mugdha Manish Patil

Materials Science and Engineering, ASU, 2024 fall, [email protected]

MKSSS’s Cummins College of Engineering for Women, Pune, 2022

Matthew Jocobs

Materials Science and Engineering, ASU, 2025 Fall

BS, Materials Science and Engineering, ASU, 2025

[email protected]

Matt loves electrochemistry and synchrotron-based characterization tools!

Undergraduate students

Te Bu

Materials Science and Engineering

Expected graduation: Summer 2026

Declan OConnor

Major in Materials Science and Engineering

Minor in Chemistry

Expected graduation: Summer 2028

Alumni

Master students

Aman Saketh, 2024, Chemical Engineering MS, now at Intel.

Zishuo Zhao, 2024, Materials Science Engineering MS, now a Ph.D candidate at UT Austin.

Goutham Rajam, 2023, Chemical Engineering MS, now at Intel.

Undergraduate students

Nicholas Antrasian, B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering

Jonathan McGill, MSE undergraduate

Parker Ferguson, MSE undergraduate, now at Apple Inc.

Group Photos

05/15/2025

From left to right: Yuwei, Matthew, Yunyuan, Linqin, Te Bu, Mugdha, Kumlachew

12/05/2023

From left to right: Linqin, Aman, Jonathan, Nicholas, Matthew, Zishuo, Yuwei

10/14/2022

From left to right, second row: Vija, Miranda, Matthew, Roman, first row: Nicholas, Linqin, Aman, Zishuo