Ph.D. Graduate Students



Isabela Rios Amador


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: BS Eckerd College
Project: Engineering Three-phase Interfaces for Hydrogen Production via Seawater Electrolysis

E-mail: isarios@stanford.edu



Ashton Aleman


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of South Carolina, Chemical Engineering
Project: Study of first-row transition metal catalyst stability during the oxygen reduction reaction in acidic media

E-mail: amaleman@stanford.edu



Yamile Cornejo Carrillo


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Notre Dame, Chemical Engineering
Project: Evaluating lithium-meditated electrochemical nitrogen reduction for ammonia synthesis

E-mail: ycornejo@stanford.edu



Colin Crago


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Case Western Reserve University
Project: Activity and dynamics of transition metal X-ide electrocatalysts

E-mail: ccrago@stanford.edu


Tristan Gilbert


Home Department: Mechanical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Vanderbilt University, Mechanical Engineering
Project: Techno-economic analysis and electrochemical CO2 reduction

E-mail: tristang@stanford.edu


Rachel Hermanson


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
Project: Studying thermal heterogeneous catalysis

E-mail: rhermans@stanford.edu


Gaurav Kamat


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: UC Berkeley
Project: Electrolyte effects on the oxygen reduction reaction in acidic media

E-mail: gkamat@stanford.edu


Daniela Marin


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: B.S. Columbia University, B.A. William Jewell College
Project: Engineering membrane electrode assemblies to produce renewable hydrogen by seawater electrolysis

E-mail: dhm2121@stanford.edu


Jesse Matthews


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Maryland College Park
Project: Mixed metal oxide catalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction and operando spectroscopy

E-mail: jmatth@stanford.edu


Valerie Niemann


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Drexel University
Project: Electrocatalytic reduction of reactive nitrogen species

E-mail: vniemann@stanford.edu


Milenia Rojas


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Rochester
Project: Investigation of fundamental properties of mixed metal oxides for use in electrode assembly for water electrolysis

E-mail: bmrojas@stanford.edu


Nhi Tran


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering
Project: Electrification of carbon dioxide conversion into chemicals and fuels

E-mail: nhitran@stanford.edu


Alfred Vargas


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry
Project: Exploring electrode-electrolyte interfaces and engineering nanomaterials for OXR/HXR catalysis

E-mail: avargas3@stanford.edu


Wrayzene Willoughby


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Spelman College, Chemistry
Project: Electrocatalytic microenvironments for the reduction of reactive nitrogen species

E-mail: wwilloug@stanford.edu


Katherine Yan


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Case Western Reserve University
Project: Cu electrode corrosion during CO2 reduction

E-mail: kyan5@stanford.edu


Kyra Yap


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: Rutgers University
Project: Photoelectrochemical reduction of CO2 using p-type silicon

E-mail: kyap@stanford.edu


Sihe Zhang


Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Undergraduate School: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Project: Electrolytic oxidation of hydrocarbons

E-mail: sihe@stanford.edu