Ke Ma received a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Colorado – Boulder. She worked with co-advisors, Dr. Letian Dou, Charles and Nancy Davidson Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Dr. Jianguo Mei, Associate Professor of Chemistry. She is continuing her postdoctoral research work in Dr. Dou's lab with a focus on the semiconducting material called perovskite, an emerging, promising material for future solar cell devices. Perovskite materials are used in solar cell devices as an alternative to expensive silicon crystals, because they can be manufactured at lower cost and using less energy.