Yang Han is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University. He graduated from Tianjin University, China with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering. He came to The Ohio State University in the fall of 2013 and has been studying with Dr. W.S. Winston Ho for membrane-based separation. His research focuses on the development of novel amine-mediated polymeric membranes for carbon capture and hydrogen purification.