Group Members
Postdocs
Eric Fell
Postdoctoral fellow
Eric is from Vancouver, Canada where he received his BSc in Chemistry at Simon Fraser University. In his undergrad, under the supervision of Prof. Gary Leach, he focused on photonics and electrochemical catalyst characterization. He also spent time in...
PhD Students
Abdulrahman Alfaraidi
G3 - Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
Abdulrahman received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and M.S. in Materials Science & Engineering from KAUST. He did his master thesis under the supervision of Prof. Jorge Gascon, working on the design and...
Sofía Edgar
G2 - Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
Sofía is from Boise, Idaho, and received her B.S. in physics at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Her past research used computational methods to model defects in nanocrystalline materials and quantify uncertainty in measurements of star formation rates...
Michael Emanuel
G4 - Applied Mathematics
Michael got his undergraduate math degree from Harvard in 1999 and spent 17 years working in finance before returning to graduate studies in 2018 and completing a master's of data science at Harvard IACS in 2020. Michael is part of a team investigating...
Tommy George
G5 - Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
Tommy studies ion exchange membranes for aqueous electrochemical reactors such as organic redox flow batteries and salt splitting for carbon dioxide removal. Tommy received a B.S. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Tufts University, and did...
Kyumin Lee
G2 - Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
Kyumin received her B.S. in Material Science from Korea University, and M.S. in Material Science from Seoul National University. She did her master thesis under the supervision of Prof. Ki Tae Nam, exploring the use of redox-neutral reactions in...
Jordan Sosa
G5 - Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
I received my Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics from the University of Tulsa, where I pursued different research areas from carbon electrode materials to optics to metallic glasses. By combining cycling experiments of static cells for faster and...
Taobo Wang
G2 - Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
Taobo started his undergraduate as a Pharmacy major at Peking University and later transferred to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, finished his degree with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an Honor Degree in Chemistry. In his undergraduate studies...
Dawei Xi
G4 - Materials Science & Mechanical Engineering
Dawei received his B.S. in Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China, focusing on CO2 reduction and electrocatalysis. Now he is working on the development of molecules for redox flow battery and seeking applications based...
Undergraduates
Manav Bansal
Undergraduate Researcher
Manav is a freshman planning to cocnentrate in Environmental Science and Engineering with a secondary in Chemistry. His research focuses on investigating different cell structures and catalysts that can be utilized in (direct air) carbon capture.
Sedona Kessler
Undergraduate Researcher
Sedona is an undergraduate concentrating in Chemical and Physical Biology with a secondary in Statistics. Her research is focused on the all-green electrosynthesis of anthraquinones and their performance in aqueous organic redox flow batteries.
Sara Lia
Undergraduate Researcher
Sara is a first-year student planning to concentrate in Chemistry and Physics. Her research focuses on maximizing the efficiency of the CO2 capture process in Aqueous Organic Redox Flow Batteries
Nicholas Su
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher
Nick is a rising sophomore at Oxford University. He aims to combine his experience in synthetic organic chemistry with electrochemistry. He works with Abdul on new methods for the electrification of chemical synthesis.