Mohammad A. Alkhadra

Mohammad (Mo) graduated from UC San Diego (UCSD) in June of 2018 with both a BS and an MS in chemical engineering, after which he moved to Cambridge, MA, to begin his PhD at MIT in the same major. At MIT, Mo focuses on remediation of contaminated water using an emerging method known as "shock electrodialysis (shock ED)" in the Bazant lab. As early projects, Mo chose to work on treatment of nuclear wastewater in collaboration with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and on the selective removal of toxic heavy metals such as lead, mercury, and cobalt. These two projects have given him the opportunity to learn important experimental techniques and the fundamental physics that govern shock ED. After completing these projects, Mo plans on using shock ED to explore dielectrophoretic separations, which are based on the ability to exert electric forces on a dielectric (polarizable) particle by imposing nonuniform fields.