Zheng Lab

Yaorong Zheng
Principle Investigator
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Kent State University
Office: 236 Integrated Science Building
Phone: 330-672-2267
Email: yzheng7@kent.edu
Dr. Zheng received his B.S. degree in Chemistry in 2006 from Peking University in China while working with Professor Chun-Hua Yan. Shortly after, he joined the laboratory of Professor Peter J. Stang in the chemistry department of University of Utah, where he focused his graduate research on multi-component coordination supramolecular systems. After receiving his Ph.D. degree in 2011, he moved to Cambridge to work with Professor Stephen J. Lippard as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2015, he joined Kent State University as an Assistant Professor working on self-assembly and bioinorganic chemistry.
Current Students

Dinusha Jayawardhana
PhD Student

Man Kshetri
PhD Student

Suha Alqarni
MS Student

Tyler Betters
Undergraduate Student

Payel Datta
PhD Student

Arpit Sharma
PhD Student

May Cheline
Undergraduate Student

Jordan Eiesland
Undergraduate Student

Wjdan Jogadi
PhD Student

Mohammad Al Amin
PhD Student

Jimin Park
Undergraduate Student

Jordan Solmen
Undergraduate Student

Parmeet Multani
Undergraduate Student
Former Students
Morgan Stilgenbauer (PhD in 2020, now postdoc at MIT)
Han Wang (PhD in 2020, now postdoc at UNC Chapel Hill)
Zihan Qiu (MS in 2019, now product technical support specialist at ABclonal Technology)
Fred Nielson (MS in 2018, now Clinical Research Associate at Medpace)