Xiaofeng Guo, PhD
Associate Professor in Chemistry
Dr. Guo leads our lab as a Founding Member of the Alexandra Navrotsky Institute for Experimental Thermodynamics and serves on the Materials Science & Engineering faculty. With cross-disciplinary appointments across the School of the Environment, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and Institute of Materials Research, he brings extensive expertise from his doctoral work in Chemistry at UC Davis (2014) and physics background from Sun Yat-sen University (2010).
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