Prashant Deshlahra
Research/Areas of Interest
heterogeneous catalysis, sustainable production of chemicals and fuels, DFT calculations
Education
- Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States, 2012
- B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, 2006
- Postdoctoral Scholar, Composition Function Relations for Acid and Oxidation Catalysis on Polyoxometalate Clusters, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, 2015
Biography
Prashant Deshlahra received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame in 2012, performing his dissertation research with Professors Eduardo Wolf and William Schneider on spectroscopic and computational probes of electric fields near catalyst-support interfaces. His postdoctoral research with Professor Enrique Iglesia at UC Berkeley was focused on developing reactivity descriptors for acid and oxidation catalysis. His research group at Tufts is focused on developing new catalytic materials for sustainable and efficient production of essential chemicals and energy carriers from abundant feedstocks and understanding catalytic phenomena using experimental and computational methods.