Our Team
Lab Director
Dr. Reza Nazemi is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and School of Materials Science and Engineering at Colorado State University since 2022. Prior to this appointment, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at Yale University (2021-2022). Before this, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology (2020-2021). He earned his Ph.D. from the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech in 2020. Dr. Nazemi’s academic research experiences have been cross-disciplinary and span materials chemistry, photoelectrochemistry, and advanced spectroscopic techniques (Link).
Postdoctoral Associates and Research Scientists
Ph.D. – Chemistry, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, India, 2014
Postdoctoral fellow – Ewha Women’s University, South Korea, 2014-2017
Research Professor – Yonsei University, South Korea, 2017-2022
Graduate Students
B.S. – Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2022
B.S. – Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2022
B.S. – Industrial Chemistry, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, 2016
M.S. – Industrial Chemistry, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2024
4+ years industry experience working as a process and manufacturing engineer
B.S. – Chemical Engineering, California Baptist University, Riverside, CA, 2018
5+ years at Wildcat Discovery Technologies as a Lab tech/Research Associate in solid state lithium ion battery development.
BEng – Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria, 2018
Research Assistant – Advanced Materials Research Laboratory, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Nigeria, 2020-2022
BS – Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, 2024
Undergraduate Students
SURE Program student and Undergraduate researcher
Undergraduate researcher
Undergraduate researcher
Alumni
Ph.D. – Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia, 2020
Postdoctoral Researcher – Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan, 2020-2022
Postdoctoral Researcher – Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea, 2022-2024
Ph.D. – Chemistry, Monash University, Australia, 2021
Undergraduate researcher
Undergraduate researcher
NSF REU Program – Summer 2024
Senior Design student (2024)
Senior Design student (2024)
Senior Design student (2024)
SURE program student (2024)
SURE program student (2024)
SURE program student (2024)
SURE program student (2024)
SURE program student (2024)
Senior Design student (2023)
Senior Design student (2023)
Senior Design student (2023)
Senior Design student (2023)
SURE Program student (2023)
Summer Research Program student (2023)