Kang Rui Garrick Lim
Born and raised in tropical Singapore, Garrick earned his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry at the National University of Singapore in 2019, specializing in materials chemistry. There, Garrick worked on a variety of material science research projects ranging from cholesteric liquid crystals for temperature history recording and sensing of volatile organic compounds (Prof. Kun-Lin Yang), to synthesizing multi-layered core-shell near-infrared semiconducting quantum dots for light harvesting and bioimaging applications (Prof. Zhi-Kuang Tan). He spent a gap year after graduation at Singapore's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, investigating 2D transition metal carbides (MXenes) and their heterostructures for efficient electrocatalysis (Prof. Zhi Wei Seh). Garrick eventually swapped the tropical weather for the Boston cold in 2020, joining the Aizenberg group to investigate how colloidal templating methods can be strategically employed to design model thermocatalytic platforms and elucidate unambiguous structure-property relationships.
In May 2025, Garrick completed his chemistry PhD in the Aizenberg group and is pursuing his postdoc on CO2 catalysis in the labs of Matteo Cargnello and Thomas Jaramillo at Stanford University.