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).
B.S. – Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2022
Dissertation focus: Physics-based modeling of electrochemical systems and techno-economic and life cycle analyses.
B.S. – Physics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 2022
Dissertation focus: Electrochemical CO2 conversion in bipolar membrane-based flow cells.
B.S. – Industrial Chemistry, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, 2016
M.S. – Industrial Chemistry, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA, 2024
4+ years of industry experience working as a process and manufacturing engineer
Dissertation focus: Catalysts and reactor designs for electrochemical PFAS degradation and mineralization.
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.
Dissertation focus: Electrochemical nitrogen recovery in complex wastewater systems.
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
Dissertation focus: Electron- and photon-driven processes for Li-mediated ammonia synthesis.
BS – Chemical Engineering, University of South Florida, 2024
Dissertation focus: Catalysts and process designs for electrochemical C-N coupling.
BS – Chemistry, San Diego State University, 2023
Dissertation focus: Electrochemical resource recovery and chemical synthesis.
SURE Program student and Undergraduate researcher
Gavin focuses on catalysts and reactor designs for electrochemical PFAS degradation.
Undergraduate researcher
Ben focuses on electrochemical nitrogen recovery and transformation to valuable nitrogenous fertilizers.
Undergraduate researcher
Amran works on flow-field and reactor designs for electrochemical CO2 conversion to valuable fuels.
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
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
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Senior Design Student (2025)
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SURE program student (2025)
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NSF REU Program – Summer 2024
Senior Design student (2024)
Senior Design student (2024)
Senior Design student (2024)
Undergrad Honors Student Researcher (2024)
SURE program student (2024)
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SURE program student (2024)
Senior Design student (2023)
Senior Design student (2023)
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Senior Design student (2023)
SURE Program student (2023)
Summer Research Program student (2023)
