Mengshan Ye

Incoming Assistant Professor

Dr. Ye will be accepting graduate students for Fall 2026.

Mengshan graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China with a B.S. degree in Chemistry (Lu Jiaxi Chemistry Science Class) and received the Guo Muoruo Scholarship. She completed her Ph.D. with Professor Daniel L. M. Suess at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2022. Her graduate research focuses primarily on synthesizing and characterizing biologically relevant [Fe4S4] clusters to provide new insights into their physical properties and roles in enzymatic metalloproteins. Following her doctoral training, she joined Professor Jeffrey R. Long’s group at the University of California, Berkeley as a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow. During this time, she studied lanthanide-based single-molecule magnets for magnetism and quantum information science.

 

The Ye lab will pioneer innovative synthetic methodologies to precisely control metal–metal and spin-spin interactions in molecular systems, thereby unlocking innovative chemical reactivity and electronic properties. Our research aims to i) develop biomimetic complexes for transforming small molecules into valuable chemicals and liquid fuels, ii) create functional, programmable, and scalable molecular qubits and quantum sensors to enable next-generation quantum technologies, and iii) develop luminescent multinuclear lanthanide/transition metal systems for efficient optical applications and chemical catalysis.

 

Through guided mentorship, early-career researchers in the Ye lab will acquire strong inorganic/organic synthetic expertise and advanced spectroscopic skills, integrating concepts across bioinorganic chemistry, physical inorganic chemistry, coordination chemistry, organometallic chemistry, and lanthanide chemistry to drive int