Biography
Currently, I am situated with a dual appointment between the Battery Technology Group at ANL CSE and the Cabana Group at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and now the Energy Storage and Conversion Group within the MSD. My formal training concerns the colloidal synthesis of metastable nanomaterials and their characterization, with targeted application in solid electrolytes for lithium metal anode batteries and heterogeneous electrocatalysis for water splitting. With the Battery Technology Group, I am currently investigating novel liquid electrolyte compositions to enable stable, dense SEI growth in high potential systems.
In 2019 I joined the Cabana Group at UIC as an undergraduate researcher, graduating with honors and a B.S. in Chemistry. I rejoined in 2020 as a graduate student, and am in my third year of Ph.D. studies in physical chemistry. Most of our work sits at a crossroads between physical, inorganic, and analytical chemistry, targeting the understanding of fundamental electrochemical events in a myriad of systems both through electrochemical and x-ray imaging techniques with synchotron radiation.