Current Team Members
Principal Investigator
Dr. Mayank Sabharwal
Mayank Sabharwal is an Assistant Professor and Chair of Sustainable Hydrogen Engineering in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Calgary. He received his Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science - Pilani in India in 2011 and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Alberta in 2019. Before graduate studies, he worked with Mercedes Benz Research and Development in India (from 2011-2014) where he led and worked on several projects on fuel cell research in collaboration with partners from Germany and Canada. After his PhD, he was a postdoc researcher at Paul Scherrer Institute (2019-2021) and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (2021-2023). His diverse industrial and academic background and international research experience guide his current projects and collaborations.
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Graduate Researchers
Monissh Gopalkrishnan Vijaykumar
Monissh is an MSc student in the LEEDR group since 2023. He graduated from Central Electrochemical Research Institute in 2023 where he worked on zinc bromine redox flow batteries. As an undergraduate student, he worked with leading scientists at one of the national research laboratories of India. His current research focuses on reducing the iridium usage in PEM water electrolyzers. He is studying the impact of iridium loading on the mass transport losses in PEM water electrolyzers and optimizing the catalyst layer structure to maximize catalyst utilization and cell performance.
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Kalaiarasi Satchidhanandam
Kalaiarasi Satchidhanandam is an MSc student in the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department, co-supervised by Dr. Ted Roberts, with a specialization in Energy and Environment at the University of Calgary. Her research focuses on flow batteries, specifically zinc-based flow batteries. She completed her undergraduate studies in Electrochemical and Chemical Engineering at the Central Electrochemical Research Institute in India. During her undergraduate studies, she worked on developing bimetallic metal-organic framework-based electrodes for zinc-bromine flow batteries to enhance the kinetics of Br -/Br2 redox couple with her group, and their work was successfully published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Outside of academics, she enjoys traveling and exploring new places, and playing badminton. She also enjoys watching movies, reading books, and discussing them.
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