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Priyank Kumar is a Scientia Senior Lecturer in the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. He holds a PhD in Materials Science Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) obtained in 2015, where he researched the atomistic computational design of two-dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides for electronic, optoelectronic, and biomedical applications. Following his doctoral studies, he was a postdoctoral fellow at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, focusing on plasmonic hot-carrier processes and their applications in photocatalysis. In 2019, he began his role at UNSW with the vision of establishing a computational materials design group that fosters experimental collaborations. His research interests emphasize the use of ab initio methods including density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TDDFT) to explore and enhance the performance of materials for applications in energy conversion, storage technologies, and healthcare.
University of New South Wales • Sydney, Australia
Teaching and research in Chemical Engineering, focusing on computational materials design.
University of New South Wales • Sydney, Australia
Research and instruction in Chemical Engineering.
ETH Zurich • Switzerland
Research in Mechanical Process Engineering.
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