{"id":34,"date":"2025-09-11T20:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:35:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:35:18","slug":"members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/members\/","title":{"rendered":"Members"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Our PI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2025\/09\/image-2-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65\" style=\"width:172px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2025\/09\/image-2-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2025\/09\/image-2-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2025\/09\/image-2-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2025\/09\/image-2-1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2025\/09\/image-2-1366x2048.png 1366w, https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/177\/2025\/09\/image-2.png 1377w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">Dr. Nguyen (Lac Ha) obtained his Ph.D. at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, a member of Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh under supervision of Prof. Nam T. S. Phan. Lac Ha\u2019s Ph.D. research focused on using reticular design to synthesize titanium metal\u2013organic frameworks (Ti-MOFs) for photocatalytic polymerization reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1757624587520_430\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Lac Ha spent a short period of time (9 months) working at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia) as a research consultant. Subsequently, he came to the US in late 2018, joining the group of Prof. Omar Yaghi at the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) as a postdoctoral researcher. At UC Berkeley, Lac Ha studied chemistry and water harvesting application of covalent organic frameworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:16px\">In 2024, Lac Ha went to the University of Chicago and worked with Prof. Laura Gagliardi and Prof. John Anderson as a joint postdoctoral researcher. At UChicago, Lac Ha focused his research on diversifying the chemistry of framework structures based on main-group elements. Lac Ha has started his independent career as an assistant professor at Tennessee Technological University in Fall 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Graduate Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Undegraduate Students<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dalton (Levi) Gipson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Braden Greear<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madysen Hawn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steven Peyatt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taddum Damitz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alumni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clifton (Kayn) Baker (graduate student, Fall 2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our PI Dr. Nguyen (Lac Ha) obtained his Ph.D. at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, a member of Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh under supervision of Prof. Nam T. S. Phan. Lac Ha\u2019s Ph.D. research focused &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/members\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.tntech.edu\/lhnguyen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}