Group
E-mail: amarti@rice.edu
Tel. 713-348-3486
Office DBH 320B
Curriculum Vitae (Link)
Angel A. Martí obtained his Ph.D in Chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, under the supervision of Prof. Jorge Colón. Following his postdoctoral training with Prof. Nicholas Turro at Columbia University in New York, he joined the Department of Chemistry at Rice University in Houston in 2008. At Rice, he has been using photochemistry to study a variety of topics, including protein aggregation, cellular temperature, and nanomaterials. He is the author of more than 125 publications and has received a variety of awards, including the Inter-American Photochemical Society Young Investigator Award in 2013, the New Investigator Award from the American Society for Photobiology in 2014, the Rice University Presidential Mentoring Award in 2019, awarded the 2022 ACS SWRM Stan Israel Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences and in 2024 the Outstanding Faculty Service Award from the Wiess School of Natural Sciences. Angel was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2020, Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2024, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advantage of Sciences (AAAS) in 2025. He is the current Chair of the American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry and the Faculty Director of the Rice Emerging Scholars Program (RESP).
Postdoctoral Associate
Subhajit Chakraborty
Post-doctoral Research Scientist
sc278@rice.edu
Ph.D. Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)
Bhopal, India
Research interests: Silver Clusters and amyloid aggregates.
Research interests: Boron-nitride fluorescent composites and protein aggregation.
Graduate Students
Office: DBH 320
Tel. 713-348-3487
Utana Umezaki
uu1@rice.edu
B.S. Molecular Chemistry and Biochemistry
Doshisha University, Kyoto
Research interests: Boron-nitride fluorescent composites and protein aggregation.
Michelle Duran
md59@rice.edu
B.S. Chemistry
University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Research interests: Boron-nitride and Carbon Nanotubes assembly into supramolecular structures.
Ying Chen
yc126@rice.edu
B.S. Chemistry
Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Research interests: Fluorescent surfactants, photocatalytic reactions.
Kevin Shumard
ks91@rice.edu
B.S. Chemistry
Boise State University, Idaho
Research interests: Supramolecular encapsulation in boron-nitride structures.
Lixin Zhou
lz59@rice.edu
B.S. Chemistry
China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Research interests: Photoluminescent MOFs and Photocatalysis.
Alina Chow
ac155@rice.edu
B.S. Chemistry
Washington University, Saint Louis, MO
Research interests: Boron Nitride Nanotubes dispersion and functionalization
Xiaofan Cai
xc57@rice.edu
B.S. Chemistry
Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX
Research interests: Fluorescent surfactants, photocatalytic reactions.
Nickie Nunez
nn30@rice.edu
B.S. Chemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology, GA
Research interests: Photoluminescent Nanomaterials
Aosheen Anand
aa257@rice.edu
B.S. Chemistry
Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi, India
Research interests: Boron-Nitride Nanotubes Assembly
Alumni
Dr. Cecilia Martínez Jiménez
Graduate Student Alumna
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Dr. Kexin Ling
Graduate Student Alumna
Currently Senior Scientist at Pfizer
Groton, Connecticut
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Dr. Bo Jiang
Currently at
B.S. Physics
Dalian University of Technology, China
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Dr. Ashleigh Smith
Graduate Student Alumna
Currently at INEOS Olefin and Polymers
Alvin, TX
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Dr. Meredith Ogle
Graduate Student Alumna
Currently Postdoctoral Researcher at UT Health San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
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Dr. Carlos de los Reyes
Graduate Student Alumnus
Currently Process Engineer at Intel Corporation
Portland, Oregon
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Dr. Erick Flores
Visiting Graduate Student Alumnus
Currently Professor, Universidad de Valparaiso
Santiago, Chile
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Dr. Amir Aliyan
Graduate Student Alumnus
Currently researcher at Pasargad Institute for Advanced Innovative Solutions and faculty at Khatam University
Tehran, Iran
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Dr. Erika Jiménez
Post-doctoral Research Scientist
Dr. Disha Jain
Post-doctoral Research Scientist
Currently at Thomson Technologies
Houston, TX
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Dr. Kewei Huang
Graduate Student Alumnus
Currently Scientist at Shell
Houston, TX
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Dr. Avishek Saha
Graduate Student Alumnus
Currently Scientist at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Dr. Nathan Cook
Graduate Student Alumnus
Currently Principal Scientist, Pfizer
Groton, Connecticut
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Dr. Chengmin Jiang
Graduate Student Alumnus
Currently Assistant Director of Publications at American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
Washington DC
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Dr. Victor García
Graduate Student Alumnus
Currently Professor at LSU
Baton Rouge, LA
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Marcia Lima
Visiting Graduate Student
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
UFSCar, Brazil