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I am an Incoming Assistant Professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering starting in Fall 2026. I received my Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of California, Berkeley, working with Dr. Adam Weber and Prof. Alexis Bell in the Liquid Sunlight Alliance. At Berkeley, my research focused on the use of continuum-level theory to understand the impact of transport and catalysis in bipolar ion-conducting polymer membranes, as well as to elucidate the influence of the catalytic microenvironment on the CO2 reduction to value-added chemical products. As an undergraduate at Columbia, I fabricated devices that directly convert seawater to hydrogen fuel. I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Karthish Manthiram at Caltech, developing technologies to generate plastics and fertilizer precursors sustainably from air. I am the recipient of the NDSEG, NSF, and Goldwater Fellowships. At NYU, my laboratory will develop electrochemical technologies to valorize waste and perform industrially-relevant chemical syntheses, leveraging multi-scale modeling to better understand their physics.

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