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Graduate Research Assistant
University of Florida• August 2014 - August 2020
-Helped build new laboratory, setup multiple workstations, order equipment, parts, etc., and create respective standard operating protocol -Synthesized (sol-gel, modified Pechini method) and characterized (XRD, Raman) nonstoichiometric oxides for solar thermochemical fuel synthesis -Developed mathematica scripts that convert raw thermogravimetric data to degree of oxygen nonstoichiometry as a function of temperature and oxygen partial pressure -Developed mathematica scripts that fit defect reaction models to nonstoichiometry data and extract partial molar thermodynamic quantities -Leveraged electronic structure theory (VASP, Pymatgen, CASM), condensed matter physics, statistical mechanics and chemical physics in order to complement experimental work -Performed electronic structure calculations in high performance computing environment and inferred relationships between electronic structure properties and bulk thermodynamic variables in the context of nonstoichiometric redox reactions
Education
University of Florida, Gainesville
Chemical Engineering, PhD