Wes Chang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, and an affiliated faculty member of the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemical and Biological Engineering, at Drexel University. Prof. Chang completed his B.S. (2014) and M.S. (2016) in Chemical Engineering at Stanford, and his Ph.D. (2021) in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Princeton. After completing his doctoral thesis, he continued working on lithium metal batteries as a Postdoc at Columbia University. He spent the following year (2022 – 2023) at Caltech investigating lithium-mediated electrochemical ammonia synthesis. He is the recipient of The Electrochemical Society F.M. Becket Fellowship and the Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship. Outside of academia, he has previously worked in the battery industry and management consulting for energy and utilities, and regularly serves as a technical advisor to energy-focused startup companies and investment firms.
Current team (2024), alphabetical by last name:
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Chemistry, Northwestern
BS, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon
PhD Candidate (Materials Science and Engineering)
BS, Engineering Science – Materials, with Minor in Mathematics, Emory
Undergraduate Researcher (Mechanical Engineering)
Undergraduate Researcher (Chemical Engineering)
Undergraduate Researcher (Computer Science)
PhD Candidate (Mechanical Engineering)
BS, Engineering with Minor in Chemistry, Swarthmore
PhD Candidate (Mechanical Engineering)
BS, Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern
Alumni
Awin Taib – Graduate Researcher (Mechanical Engineering, Drexel), 10/2023 – 09/2024. Current role: Mechanical Engineer at Colliers Design and Engineering
JiYoon Kang – Undergraduate Researcher (Bryn Mawr College), Summer 2024. Current role: MS at UPenn
Isabella Wu – Undergraduate Researcher (Imperial College London), Summer 2024. Current role: Undergraduate at Imperial College
Ali Bagherzadeh – MS Researcher (Drexel), Spring 2024. Current role: Stantec
Gabe Jacobsen – Undergraduate Researcher (Drexel), Fall – Winter 2024. Current role: Undergraduate Co-op at Trojan Battery
Noah Woods – Undergraduate Researcher (Drexel), Fall – Winter 2024. Current role: Undergraduate at Drexel