(2hz) Materials for a Sustainable Future: Understanding Electronic Structure & Engineering Electron Transfer to Design Materials for Sustainability

Thrust 1/ Reduce: Design/ Discovery of materials and catalysts for solar fuel applications (to reduce carbon emissions by making solar energy storage viable)
Thrust 2/ Reuse: Reverse engineering microbial nanowires for biodegradable and regenerative electronics (to reuse/ repurpose microbes to benefit society)
Thrust 3/ Recycle: Reaction design for metals separation (to sustainably separate and recycle critical materials)

Research Type:

Theory, Computation

Teaching Interests:

Statistical Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Nanotechnology, Mathematical Methods, Machine Learning for Engineering