Members

Yan Xia
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Stanford University
Office: Stauffer II 205
Phone: 650-723-9059
Email: yanx AT stanford.edu

Yan grew up in the older part of Beijing (which was very different from the bustling city now) and received his undergraduate degree from Peking University ('02) and MSc from McMaster University ('05). He obtained his PhD in 2010 from Caltech, where he worked on cyclic and non-cyclic polymers under the tutelage of Professors Grubbs and Kornfield. Following his PhD, he worked at Dow Chemical as a senior chemist and then at MIT as a postdoc. He joined the chemistry faculty at Stanford in the summer of 2013 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2020 despite all the chaos that year. His research interest is in polymer chemistry and organic/soft materials, tackling challenges with molecular designs and interdisciplinary approaches. He is a recipient of Terman Fellowship, Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, 3M Non-Tenured Faculty Award, NSF CAREER Award, Cottrell Scholar Award, and Sloan Research Fellowship.

Former Members

• Linda Yiu, research assistant (2026) Princeton
• Yong Min Kim, Post-Doc (2024-2026), faculty at Jeonbuk National University
• Ke Zheng, Ph.D. (2019-2025) postdoc at UC Berkeley
• Erica Flear, Ph.D. (2020-2025)
• Leos Valenta, Post-Doc (2024-2025)
• Ai He, Post-Doc (2024-2025)
• Xuyi Luo, Post-Doc (2023-2025), postdoc at Yale
• Kazuharu Murotani​, Visiting grad student from Osaka U (2024-25)
• ​Maggie Horst, Ph.D. (2018-2024), postdoc at UCSF, website
• ​Ashley Robinson, Ph.D. (2019-2024), AFRL
• Lydia Goedert, Undergraduate (2022-23) Cornell
• Dylan Freas, Post-Doc (2022-2023), faculty at Bates College, website
• Francesca Starvaggi, grad student (2020-2023) Stanford
• Kayla Barker, Ph.D. (2018-2023), Loliware
• Nagi Mizutani, Visiting grad student from U Tokyo (2022-2023)
• JD Feist, Ph.D. (2017-2023), Novartis
• Hirogi Yokochi, Visiting grad student from Tokyo Tech (2022-2023)
• Jinghui Yang, Ph.D. (2017-2022), Huawei
• Amy Laturski, grad student (2022) Stanford
• Dan Lee, Post-Doc (2020-2022), cofounder of Perseus
• Xianglin Yin, Post-Doc (2020-2022), Arcus
• Christian Fengler, Visiting grad student from KIT (2022)
• Jonathan Sklar, Undergraduate (Class of 2021) - graduate student at Northwestern Univ.
• Jessica Su, Ph.D. (2015-2020), Align Technology
• Holden Lai, Ph.D. (2015-2020), cofounder and CTO of Osmoses
• Soyoung Lee, Undergraduate (Class of 2020) - graduate student at MIT
• Karis Will, Undergraduate (Class of 2020) - graduate student at Harvard Univ.
• Joe Ahn, Post-Doc (2018-2019), Vertex​
• Zexin (Henry) Jin, Ph.D. (2014-2019), faculty at Westlake University, Jin Lab
• Junzhe (Robin) Lou, Ph.D. (2013-2019), postdoc at Harvard Univ (Mooney lab)
• Xuejin Yang, Post-Doc (2017-2019) - N Life
• Yew Chin Teo, Ph.D. (2013-2018), A*STAR Singapore
• Hiroaki Shimomoto, Visiting Professor (2018), Ehime University
• Ben Elling, Ph.D. (2013-2018), faculty at Wesleyan University, Elling Lab
• Mahmoud Abdulhamid, visiting grad student from KAUST (2018)
• Lily Chen, MSc (2016-2018), Google
• ​Nicolo Zulaybar, Undergraduate (Class of 2018) - Stanford coterm
• Zhixing Chen, Post-Doc (2016-2018), faculty at Peking University, Chen Lab
• Jing Zhang, Post-Doc (2016-2017), faculty at Wuhan University
• Takaaki Uno, joint Visiting scholar (2015-17) - JSR
• Fang Liu, joint Post-Doc (2015-17) - faculty at Guangzhou Medical University
• Omar Garcia, Undergraduate (Class of 2016) - MD program, Stanford Medical School
• Eri Gamo, Undergraduate (Class of 2016) - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Victoria Nguyen, Undergraduate (Class of 2015) - Genentech
• Sheng Liu, Post-Doc (2013-15) - Dupont
• Paulo Soares, MSE Masters Student (2014) - Schlumberger