The Group
![]() Prof. Jim Cahoon |
Prof. Jim Cahoon received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and Philosophy from the College of William and Mary in 2003 and then moved to the University of California-Berkeley to pursue a PhD in Physical Chemistry, studying the femtosecond light-driven reactions of molecules in solution with Prof. Charles Harris. In 2009, he moved to Harvard University for a post-doctoral fellowship with Prof. Charles Lieber, where he worked to develop nanostructured photovoltaic devices. In 2011, Jim started his faculty career in the Department of Chemistry at UNC Chapel Hill, being promoted to Associate Professor in 2017 and Professor in 2022. He has received awards including a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, Sloan Research Fellowship, Cottrell Scholar Award, and UNC Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Research Core Facilities for the College of Arts and Science, UNC site director of the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network, and thrust leader for the DOE Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels. Click here for Prof. Cahoon's Curriculum Vitae |
Post Docs
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Graduate Students
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Undergraduate Students
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Former Members
Post-Docs
- Dr. Shi He
- Dr. Jin-Sung Park - Module Development Engineer at Intel
- Dr. Kyoung-Ho Kim - Assistant Professor at Chungbuk National University
Graduate Students
- Dr. Kelly White
- Dr. Lorenzo Serafin - Development Engineer at Intel
- Dr. Cullen Walsh - Associate Editor at Nature Communications
- Dr. Corban Murphey - Sales Manager at NKT Photonics
- Samuel Van Amberg - ORISE Fellow at EPA
- Dr. Sarah Sutton - ASEE Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory
- Dr. Taylor Teitsworth - Assistant Professor at Vasssar College
- Dr. Jon Meyers - Wolfspeed
- Dr. Aaron Taggart - PostDoc at Argonne National Laboratory
- Dr. James Custer - 8 Rivers
- Sarah Morley - BASF
- Dr. Seokhyoung Kim - Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Michigan State University
- Dr. David Hill - SRI International
- Dr. Shannon McCullough - Science Dept. Faculty at Lincoln School in Providence RI
- Dr. Tom Celano - Research Scientist at Cree
- Dr. Taylor Moot - PostDoc at NREL under Dr. Joey Luther
- Dr. Chris Pinion - Intel
- Dr. Xing (Robert) Zhang - Applied Materials
- Dr. Joe Christesen - Max Planck Institue
- Dr. Cory Flynn - Eastman Chemical Company
Undergradate Students
- Gordon Rogelberg - PhD Physics, Yale
- Michael Carter - PhD Materials Science, NC State
- Max Umantsev
- Jeremy Low - PhD Physics, Ohio State
- Jake Evans - PhD Chemistry, Caltech
- Cory Carr
- Helen Hansel
- Maryam Kazemzadeh-Atoufi
- Freddy Rodríguez
- Morgan Zemaitis - Insight Sourcing Group
- Jaehyeong Lee -PhD Chemistry, Harvard University: Mason Group
- Esther (EunBi) Oh - PhD Chemistry, Northwestern: Mirkin Group
- David Nenon - PhD Chemistry, UC Berkeley: Alivisatos Group
- Niamh Coppinger
- Landon Carter
- Micah Papanikolas
- Grace Oh
Visiting Scholars
- Dr. Dylan Storan
- Yusuke Fujii - Researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Advanced Technology R&D Center