Principle Investigator
Chenfeng Ke
Associate Professor
[email protected]
Office: McMillen 507 Phone: 314-935-2581
Ph.D. in Supramolecular Chemistry, Nankai University, China
2009 with Yu Liu
Visiting Ph.D. in Photochemistry, Osaka University, Japan
2007-2008 with Yoshihisa Inoue
BSc in Chemistry, Nankai University, 2004
Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis, 2024-present
Affiliated faculty of the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering at WashU
Associate Professor, Dartmouth College, 2022-2023
Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, 2015-2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, 2011-2015
with Sir Fraser Stoddart (Nobel Laureate 2016)
Newton Fellow (The Royal Society, UK) University of Bristol, 2009-2011
with Anthony Davis
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Selected Awards
- JSPS International fellowship for research, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2025
- Scholarly Innovation and Advancement Award, Dartmouth College, 2023
- Top 10% of reviewers for Angewandte Chemie for year 2022, 2023
- Susan and Gib Myers 1964 Faculty Fellowship, Dartmouth College, 2022
- Karen E. Wetterhahn Memorial Award for Distinguished Creative or Scholarly Achievement, Dartmouth College, 2022
- American Chemical Society PMSE Young Investigator Award, 2021
- Cram Lehn Pedersen Prize in Supramolecular Chemistry, 2020
- Beckman Young Investigator Award, 2019, the Beckman Foundation
- CAREER award, 2019, the National Science Foundation
- Cottrell Scholar award, 2019, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement
- Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2018, Dartmouth College
- Burke Research Award, 2015, Dartmouth College
- Newton International Fellowship 2009-2011 from Royal Society in the UK
- The Gold Prize of The Nagai Poster Award, The 5th Asian Cyclodextrin Conference 2009
- Ph.D. Thesis Award of Nankai University, 2009
Professional Services
- Member of the advisory board of NPG Asia Materials
Postdocs
Dan Zheng
Postdoc (12.2021-present) Ph. D. Beijing Normal University, 2021 Research interests: development of 3D-printing hydrogels |
Xinyu Pang
Postdoc (12.2024-present) Ph. D. Southern University of Science and Technology, 2024 Research interests: development of HcOFs |
Graduate Students
Fangzhou Li Graduate Student (2022) BEng, Central South University, 2020 MEng, Johns Hopkins University, 2022 
Priyanka Singh Graduate Student (2024) MS, University of Hyderabad, 2024 BS, Presidency University, Kolkata, 2022 |
Yufei Chen Graduate Student (2024) MS, Fudan University, 2024 BEng, South China University of Technology, 2021 
Evan C. Schultheis Graduate Student (2024) BA, Grinnell College, 2024 |
Undergraduate Students
Dongting Li Undergraduate Student (class of 2026) 
Alice Xu Undergraduate Student (class of 2027) |
Teddy (Xuannan) Liu Undergraduate Student (class of 2027) |