The Ge Group
People
Professor Haibo Ge, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Haibo Ge received his Ph.D. degree in Medicinal Chemistry from The University of Kansas in 2006, and then moved to The Scripps Research Institute for postdoctoral study. In 2009, he began his independent academic career at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, and relocated to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Texas Tech University in 2020. Research in his group is mainly focused on the development of novel methods for carbon–carbon and carbon–heteroatom bond formation through transition metal catalyzed C-H functionalization.
Chong Liu, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Chong Liu got his B.S. and M.S. degrees at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Next, he received his PhD degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2021 (supervisor: Wanbin Zhang). Then, he joined in Professor Haibo Ge’s group in Texas Tech University for his postdoctoral research. His research interests focus on transition-metal catalyzed C−H functionalization and asymmetric synthesis methodology.
Jun Chen, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Jun Chen got his B.S. degree at Hubei Normal University. Next, he received his M.S.and PhD degrees from Central China Normal University in 2021 (supervisor: Wen-Jing Xiao and Jia-Rong Chen). Then, he joined in Professor Haibo Ge΄s group in Texas Tech University for his postdoctoral research. His research interests focus on transition-metal catalyzed C-H functionalization and asymmetric synthesis methodology.
Hong-Mei Guo, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Hong-Mei Guo got her B.S.degree at Zunyi Normal University, and M.S. degree at Central China Normal University. Next, she received her PhD degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2022 (supervisor: Xuesong Wu). Then, she joined in Professor Haibo Ge΄s group in Texas Tech University for her postdoctoral research. Her research interests focus on transition-metal-catalysed asymmetric coupling reactions with light intervention.
Mazen Elsaid
Graduate Student
Mazen was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt. He's a graduate from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. He has started pursuing his PhD degree at Texas Tech in Fall 2019.
Faith Herington
Undergraduate Student
Faith is a 3rd year undergraduate student at Texas Tech. Her major is Biology and she is pursuing a minor is Chemistry. She plans to go to medical school in Fall 2024. Faith was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and hopes to pursue a career as a Medical Doctor.
Alana Mangawang
Undergraduate Student
Alana was born in Waco, TX and she is currently an undergraduate student at TTU majoring in biochemistry. She is currently pursuing a pre-med path and hopes to one day attend medical school and become a physician. Alana lives in Houston right now and she has started attending TTU in 2021.
Dayra Figueroa
Undergraduate Student
Dayra is an undergraduate student pursuing a biochemistry degree. Post graduation, she hopes to attend medical school and become a physician. Dayra is from Abilene, TX, and began attending TTU in 2022.
Thomas Lyness
Undergraduate Student
Thomas was born in Norman, Oklahoma, he is a fourth year at Texas Tech University pursuing a degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. Upon graduation he plans to purse a Ph.D in Chemistry starting in fall of 2024.