Hussain Almajed

Hussain is a chemical engineering PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in chemistry and Master's degree in chemical engineering, both from the University of Colorado Boulder. During his undergraduate career, he worked with Dr. Adam Holewinski and utilized rotating disk electrode techniques to study bifunctional metallic electrocatalysts for CO and methanol oxidation reactions. After that, he joined the department of chemical and biological engineering as a Master's student and was co-advised by Dr. Charles Musgrave and Dr. Wilson Smith. During that time, he leveraged grand-canonical density functional theory to comprehensively study metal-centered nitrogen-doped graphene electrocatalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction to CO. Currently, Hussain is co-advised by Dr. Wilson Smith and Dr. Bri-Mathias Hodge. His research focuses on process modeling and techno-economic assessments of carbon dioxide removal technologies and their integration with electrolysis systems.