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• Staff Scientist leading multiple scientific directions in designing efficient and durable electrocatalytic systems for carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, and biomass conversion.• Establish deep insights into reaction mechanisms and catalyst design principles, demonstrating subject matter expertise in electrochemistry, chemical energy storage, and catalysis by co-authoring 30+ publications in high impact journals such as Science, Nature Catalysis, and PNAS.• Supervise/advise a group of 10+ researchers (PhD students and postdoctoral scholars) in achieving their academic, research, and career goals. Mentored 15+ Stanford University PhD students and 7+ postdoctoral scholars in knowledge-base and skillset development.• Conceptualize innovative research projects and write proposals to secure research funding in areas aligned with SUNCAT’s strategic missions. Secured $2.5+ million to SUNCAT in research funding awarded through multi-institutional grants (totaling $80+ million).

• As Scientific Program Lead of the Durability Team for the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA), a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Innovation Hub, lead 8 Principal Investigators across 5 institutions by: providing research guidance and stewardship, performing critical assessment of results and evaluating progress, and ensuring cross-functional scientific exchange and full integration with other LiSA Teams to achieve the Hub’s final objective of creating durable and efficient integrated systems for solar fuels synthesis from carbon dioxide and water.• Perform critical review of program milestones and deliverables, and consolidate technical reporting to DOE for the Durability Team.• Advise the Senior Management Team on future opportunities, establishment of cross-Team working groups and task forces, resource planning, strategic realignments of the program, and performance evaluation.

• Designed, commissioned, and utilized a three source physical vapor deposition system for the synthesis of metal alloy thin films to establish catalyst structure-property relationships.• Developed protocols to characterize metal alloy thin films and screen their electrocatalytic properties for CO2 and CO conversion.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Physical Chemistry

• Developed new materials chemistry strategies towards vapor-phase synthesis of Group III-Nitride nanowires, and investigated their.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemistry