Yuanwei Li

Yuanwei is a Stanford Science Fellow working with Prof. Jennifer Dionne at Stanford University. She focuses on developing new nanophotonic platforms for biosensing and photocatalysis. In 2023, she received her Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering from Northwestern University as a Ryan Fellow under the guidance of Prof. Chad Mirkin. Her graduate research focused on the programmable assembly of nanoparticles into colloidal crystals with precisely tailored chemical, optical, and mechanical properties. Yuanwei’s work has been published in Nature, Science, and Science Advances.