Email: meikun@uoregon.edu

Phone: 541-346-7655

Current Research: Meikun graduated with his PhD in Physical Chemistry working with Prof. Bryce Sadtler at Washington University in St. Louis. At Oregon he is focused on understanding nanoscale semiconductor/electrocatalyst interfaces.

Email: kasinath@uoregon.edu

Kasinath received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India in Nov 2016. Afterwards, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Technion, Israel and at Leiden University, Netherlands. He holds expertise on single crystal electrochemistry, electrocatalysis, and on the double layer structure at the electrode-electrolyte interfaces.

He joined the Boettcher Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in Feb 2022. His current research is on the development of passivated anode for durable AEM based electrolyzers and on the understanding of various electrode-electrolyte interfaces. 

Email: jhuang10@uoregon.edu

Phone: 352-222-9579

Jiawei received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry at University of Florida under the direction of Prof. David Wei where he focused on understanding the role of the metal-metal oxide interface in heterogeneous catalysis.

He joined the Boettcher Laboratory in August 2021 and he is focused on spectroscopically understanding interfacial properties of bipolar membranes.

Email: sayantan@uoregon.edu

Current Research: Studying different descriptors of water dissociation activity of oxide catalysts at the junction of bipolar membranes.

Email: aekennia@uoregon.edu 

Anthony graduated with a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. At the University of Oregon, he is a postdoctoral scholar focused on developing catalysts/membranes for electrocatalytic water splitting and photovoltaic cells.

Email: pvs@uoregon.edu

Prasad received his Ph.D. from IISER-Thiruvananthapuram India. He joined the University of Oregon under the Fulbright-Nehru post-doctoral fellowship on 2021 December.

In the Boettcher laboratory, he is working on various kinds of semiconductor interfaces for electrocatalytic water splitting.

Email: akonoval@uoregon.edu

Ana obtained her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering under the guidance of Prof. Dirk Henekensmeier at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul, South Korea working on polymer electrolyte membranes for energy applications. Afterward, she joined Prof. Steven Holdcroft’s group at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver BC as a postdoctoral fellow where she focused her research on anion exchange membranes for fuel cells. 

Her current role as a postdoctoral scholar at the Boettcher Lab under the co-supervision of Prof. Paul Kempler includes non-PFAS-based membrane solutions for chloralkali electrolysis and research on the intricacies of iron reduction from hematite slurry.

Email: shou@uoregon.edu

Shujin Hou received his Ph.D. in the Department of Physics at the Technical University of Munich, where he worked on the structural transformations in MOFs to design active oxygen evolution electrocatalysts with Prof. Aliaksandr Bandarenka and Prof. Roland A. Fischer.

At the University of Oregon, he is working on bipolar membrane structural innovations and understanding the evolution mechanisms of OER catalysts.

liamt@uoregon.edu

Liam is a PhD student from Northern California studying the fundamentals water oxidation catalysis on Fe-containing metal oxides. He also is the group contact for the ICP-MS instrument.

kthurman@uoregon.edu

Kira is a PhD student working as part of the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA). She is studying fundamental aspects of corrosion reaction kinetics using well defined monolayers on single crystal surfaces. Kira is a graduate of the Master’s internship program in polymer science and has also worked as a researcher at NREL prior to arriving at Oregon in 2021 to continue her PhD studies.

Aaron Kaufman <akaufma2@uoregon.edu>

Aaron is a PhD student studying  fundamentals of semiconductor/catalyst interfaces using potential sensing atomic force microscopy and other photoelectrochemical techniques. He joined the Boettcher laboratory in the Summer of 2020 after completing his MS degree in the industrial masters internship program in Semiconductor Science at the University of Oregon.

Minkyoung Kwak <mkwak@uoregon.edu>

Minkyoung received her B.S. in Chemistry at Yonsei University. In the Boettcher group she studies the kinetics of ion transfer at the liquid-liquid interface, and anion exchange membrane water electrolysis focusing on catalyst-ionomer layer

Olivia Traenkle <opt@uoregon.edu>

Olivia received dual majors in Marine Science and Chemistry from Eckerd College before pursuing a PhD in Chemistry.  She joined the Boettcher lab in 2021 and studies bipolar membranes electrodialysis.

Nick D’Antona <ndantona@uoregon.edu>

Nick graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with degrees in chemistry and applied physics. In the Boettcher lab he is studying the kinetics and mechanism of ion transfer at the interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES), primarily using nanopipette voltammetry.

yzhao15@uoregon.edu

Yang received her B.S. in Chemistry from Xiamen University in 2017. She was a visiting graduate student in UC Santa Barbara ever since. In Spring of 2022, Yang joined Boettcher lab as a PhD student and she works on investigations of kinetics of UPD ion-transfer and surface modified Cu catalysts for CO₂RR.

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nsagui@uoregon.edu

Nicole grew up in northern Italy, where she received a BS in Chemistry from the University of Milano-Bicocca. Before moving to Oregon, she lived in Sweden for a couple of years and completed the Chemistry for Renewable Energy MS program at Uppsala University. She joined the Boettcher lab in summer 2022 and will be studying fundamentals of water oxidation catalysis and applications in anion exchange membrane electrolyzers.

mrajeev@uoregon.edu

Manasa Rajeev graduated from University of Kerala with a degree in General Chemistry. At UO, in collaboration with the Boettcher lab and Hgen, she is interested in improving efficiencies of low-cost alkaline water electrolyzers by studying integrated electrode-membrane architectures built for gas bubble management. Currently, she is investigating catalyst degradation during hydrogen generation from intermittent electricity sourced from wind and solar energy.

rajs@uoregon.edu

Raj is a PhD student studying the fundamentals of the electro-reduction of iron from its ores. He joined the Boettcher Lab in January 2023 after completing his MS from Paris-Saclay University in 2022. Previously, he graduated from NIT Rourkela with an integrated master’s in chemistry in 2021.