• Designed, and constructed a new experimental method for nonlinear XUV spectroscopy with $1M of funding involving ultrafast lasers and UHV equipment• Deposited thin film & interface samples and performed spectroscopic measurements on these• Investigated non-equilibrium material phases and quasi particles; and charge transfer• Modelled ultrafast materials and charge dynamics with computational methods

• Founded the perovskite photovoltaic division within QD Solar• Designed photovoltaic devices for QD Solar’s NIR-QD and perovskite divisions• Fabricated, analyzed, and optimized perovskite solar cells• Modelled solar spectra and device performance as a function of geographical location, temperature, and weather

PhD Thesis Topic: Development, optimization and characterization of materials and devices for photovoltaic and light-emission applications. • Developed materials for optoelectronic and electrochemical applications.• Characterized structures with various techniques, with customized optical setups, and at synchrotron facilities.• Fabricated devices with micro and nano-structures in clean-room facility.• Constructed characterization setups and processed data from LEDs and PV devices

• Utilized IBM computational facilities to model materials with quantum chemistry software.• Simulated Raman Spectra for various intermediate adsorbates involved in CO2 catalysis.• Tested larger electrochemical flow cell designs for CO2 RR with novel catalysts

• Devised and constructed a setup to perform spectroscopic measurements on nanoscopic components.• Performed simulations in COMSOL to model the performance of nanoscopic components.

• Synthesized code in MATLAB and C to control RF Sensors, Spectrum Analyzers and Vector Network Analyzers, as well as algorithms to sort through acquired data.• Monitored equipment throughout measurements to estimate spectrum occupancy throughout the city of Vancouver.

• Synthesized MATLAB code to control a Lock-in Amplifier, electrometer, multimeter and current source to simulate a frequency sweep to determine the impedance of an electrochemical cell.• Developed an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface in MATLAB for professors at the UNAM to control a spectrometer.• Designed exercises and assignments, as well as their solutions, for a class aimed at introducing undergraduate students to programming in C++.