Research/Areas of Interest:
Clean energy, fuels and chemicals, experimental and computational catalysis
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 mechanisms of dehydration and oxidative dehydrogenation reactions of alcohols on polyoxometalate catalysts. His research group at Tufts University seeks to advance understanding of structure-function relations heterogeneous catalysis and develop new catalytic materials for efficient energy conversion and sustainable chemical processes.