I am a visiting graduate student from University of Illinois at Chicago and work in the Glusac research group. Here at Argonne, I am a member of the Solar Energy Conversion Group within the Chemical Sciences & Engineering Division. My goal is to design a system for Artificial photosynthesis by studying light harvesting and catalytic activity of different metal complexes.

My research focus is in the area of light absorption and solar energy conversion by chemical systems. To study these systems, we employ ultra-fast transient IR and optical absorption laser spectroscopy and basic computational methods. The aforementioned experimental and theoretical tools allow us to explain and predict, respectively, the fundamental photophysics of light-harvesting feature of transition metal complexes. 

I am also exploring OER/HER/CO2RR catalytic activity of different metal complexes and POM’s to investigate the mechanism using  oprendo X-ray measurements.