Dr. Chibueze Amanchukwu

Biography

Chibueze Amanchukwu is an Assistant Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago, holding a joint appointment at Argonne National Laboratory. His research focuses on enabling long-duration electrical chemical energy storage for a sustainable energy future. He is particularly interested in modifying electrolyte ion solvation behavior to control electrochemical processes in batteries and electrocatalytic transformations for carbon dioxide capture and conversion. Amanchukwu employs data science, computation, synthesis, and characterization to holistically understand ion transport in electrolytes and to control interfacial reactions for efficient and cost-effective energy storage solutions. His work has received several honors including the NSF CAREER Award, DOE Early Career Award, ECS-Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship, and CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar Award. He earned his PhD in chemical engineering as an NDSEG Fellow at MIT and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. His lab is actively recruiting graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and undergraduates interested in designing and understanding the generation of electrolytes for batteries and catalysis. The Amanchukwu Lab's mission is to creatively solve energy-related challenges, with a focus on energy storage and electrocatalysis.

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