Two new assistant professors are joining our Department!
Kai Chen, currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. Jennifer Doudna’s group in the Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and Yifan Quan, a Postdoctoral Researcher in Prof. Robert Griffin’s group in the Department Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will be joining Penn Chemistry in January 2026.
Prof. Chen’s research will focus on extending the science of directed evolution, which has been broadly and successfully developed in bacterial systems, to mammalian cells.
Prof.. Quan’s research program will focus on the development of new magnetic resonance techniques that can provide unique information about the structue and dynamics of energy-related and quantum materials.