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Samji Samira

Assistant Professor

Education

  • Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California Santa Barbara, 2024
  • Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Wayne State University, 2021
  • M. S., Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2015
  • B. S., Chemical Engineering, BMS College of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), 2013

Research Interests

  • Rational active site environment design and development
  • Electrocatalysis for energy conversion and storage
  • Electro-organic synthesis
  • Photocatalysis for chemical manufacturing
  • Structure-performance relationships to enable active site design
  • In situ/operado spectroscopy
  • Alkali metal-air battery catalyst design