Joseph T. Hupp, Ph.D.

Morrison Professor of Chemistry

Joe Hupp is a native of rural western New York state. He was introduced to chemical research as an undergraduate student at Houghton College in New York, evaluating candidate electrode materials for heart pacers. He completed a B.Sc. degree in 1979. Subsequently he was a student of the late Mike Weaver at Michigan State University and Purdue University, completing a Ph.D. degree in 1983. He was a postdoc at the University of North Carolina. In 1986 he moved to Northwestern University where he is currently a Morrison Professor of Chemistry and a Senior Science Fellow in the Materials Science Division at nearby Argonne National Laboratory. He is the Deputy Director of the recently renewed Inorganometallic Catalyst Design Center (ICDC), an Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) sponsored by the Dept. of Energy. He is also the team lead for “Redox Catalysts for Energy-Demanding Reactions” thrust within the Center for Light Energy Activated Redox Processes (LEAP), also a DOE-sponsored EFRC and successor of the Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center.  He completed an eleven-year stint as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and recently has been appointed as the chair of the editorial board for Energy & Environmental Science.

His research centers on energy- and defense-relevant materials chemistry, including materials for chemical separations, chemical catalysis, light-to-electrical energy conversion, catalytic water oxidation, high-capacity storage and release of molecular hydrogen, and capture and destruction of chemical warfare agents. His research accomplishments have been recognized with awards from the Sloan Foundation, the Dreyfus Foundation, the American Chemical Society, the Electrochemical Society, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Inter-American Photochemical Society, the Japan Society for Coordination Chemistry, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and others.  He has mentored 55 students to Ph.D. completion. His research findings, described in about 580 peer-reviewed articles and in about a dozen patents, place him among the world’s most highly cited chemists as assessed by Thomson-Reuters.

Haofan Yang

Postdoctoral Scholar

Ph.D., University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2021

Jake Evans

Postdoctoral Scholar

Ph.D., Caltech, 2024

Joint with Prof. Christian Malapit

Xavier Krull

Graduate Student

Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University, 2021 – present

B.S. Chemistry and Physics, Canisius College – Buffalo, 2021

Oluwagbotemi Akinsoji

Graduate Student

Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University, 2022 – present

B.S. Chemistry, University of Central Florida, 2021
Advised by Dr. Fernando Uribe-Romo

Sydney Koehne

Graduate Student

Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University, 2022 – present
Jointly advised by Prof. Lin X. Chen

B.S. Chemistry, Tulane University, 2021
B.S. Mathematics, Tulane University, 2021
Advised by Prof. Russell Schmehl

Ayman Roslend

Graduate Student

Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University, 2023 – present

B.S. Chemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2022
Advised by Prof. Cathy Murphy and Prof. Dipanjan Pan

Wenxuan (Chris) Han

Graduate Student

Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University, 2024 – present

Dong-Hyun Kim

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher

Chungnam National University
Advised by Prof. Kyubock Lee

Keonwoo Ko

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher

Chungnam National University
Advised by Prof. Namgee Jung

Seunggyun Han

Visiting Graduate Student Researcher

Konkuk University
Advised by Prof. Han-Ik Joh

Rui-lin Han

Visiting Undergraduate Student Researcher

Nankai University

Sam Liu

Undergraduate Student Researcher