(2bn) Materials for a Sustainable Future

Our increasing ability to control and engineer materials holds the promise of boundless opportunities in a wide range of applications. Fulfilling this promise requires a comprehensive understanding of the complex chemistry and physics found at various length/ timescales. Building on my background of development and application of methodologies for studying electronic structure of materials, I aim to drastically advance computational research to design materials with a focus on sustainability. My research program will have focus on problems with the theme od reduce, reuse, recycle.

Reduce: Design/ Discovery of materials and catalysts for solar fuels applications (to reduce carbon emissions by making solar energy storage viable)

Reuse: Reverse engineering microbial nanowires for biodegradable and regenerative electronics (to reuse/ repurpose microbes to benefit society)

Recycle: Reaction design for metals separation (to sustainably separate and recycle critical materials)

Research Interests:

Quantum Chemistry, Density Functional Theory, Catalysis, Chemical Separation, Electrochemistry, Photochemistry, Charge Transfer, Functional Materials

Teaching Interests:
Quantum Chemistry, Electronic Structure Theory, Statistical Mechanics, Catalysis, Nanotechnology