Mohammadreza Nazemi, PhD
Pennington, NJ – Mohammadreza Nazemi, PhD, received The Electrochemical Society’s prestigious 2022 ECS Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship to support his research project, “Electrochemical redox processes for wastewater treatment and resource recovery using single atom catalysts.” The fellowship provides research support for the months of June through August.
Nazemi is currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University. His work focuses on developing an electrochemical system comprised of single-atom metal catalysts to degrade a wide range of organic pollutants and recover valuable resources (nitrogen-based compounds) from complex wastewater matrices. He said, “I am very excited to receive this fellowship and so grateful to ECS for continuing to support members’ professional growth. The fellowship enables me to lead and explore a new research topic, which is invaluable experience in project management, budgeting, and timely deliverables for my future independent career.”
Dr. Nazemi completed his PhD at the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2020 with Professor Mostafa A. El-Sayed. At Georgia Tech, he worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering (August 2015-May 2020), then as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Chemistry and Biochemistry (June 2020-August 2021). He then joined Professor Jaehong Kim’s research group at Yale.
Technology co-invented by Dr. Nazemi was recently licensed by Hydrofuel Inc. to complete a commercial application and demonstration of the micro-ammonia production system (MAPS). This electrochemistry-based technology produces pure ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen, water, and renewable electricity.
Notable recognition Dr. Nazemi received includes the 2021 American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Division Young Investigator Award and 2018 Amazon Catalyst at ECS award. At Georgia Tech in 2020, he was the Technology Innovation: Generating Economic Results Class of 2020 Fellow, and received the Georgia Research Alliance Award and Georgia Tech-Oak Ridge National Lab Seed Grant Award. Dr. Nazemi is first author of 12 articles (h-index 10). CRC Press published his book, Photo-electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis: Nanocatalyst Discovery, Reactor Design, and Advanced Spectroscopy, in 2022.
An active member of ECS, Dr. Nazemi served as student member of the Society’s Individual Membership Committee and officer of the ECS Georgia Tech Student Chapter (2017-2020).
Applications for the 2023 ECS Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship open on September 15, 2022, and are due by January 15, 2023. Candidates for the $5,000 award are postdoctoral scientists or engineers and ECS members. Recipients submit a brief resume or abstract of their fellowship research at the end of the award period, for publication in The Electrochemical Society Interface. Learn more at https://www.electrochem.org/fink-fellowship.
The Society thanks the 2022 Summer Fellowship Subcommittee members:
- Vimal H. Chaitanya, Subcommittee Chair, New Mexico University, US
- Peter Mascher, McMaster University, CAN
- Jennifer A. Bardwell, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (retired), US
- David S. Hall, University of Cambridge, UK
- Kalpathy B. Sundaram, University of Central Florida, US
- Yaiza Gonzalez-Garcia, Technische Universiteit Delft, NL
Colin Garfield Fink—the scientist, educator, and executive secretary-editor for whom the fellowship is named—served as ECS President in 1917-1918. Some of his best-known research projects led to ductile tungsten for incandescent lamp filaments; an insoluble anode for electrowinning copper; an electrolytic process for the faithful restoration of corroded ancient bronzes; the development of hot dipped aluminum coatings; the electrodeposition of metals; and in particular, a commercial process for chromium plating. The author of over 200 papers held many patents.
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