B.S.E. Chemical & Biological Engineering, Princeton University, 2016
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021
Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology
Zachary completed his bachelor’s degree in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at MIT. At MIT, he worked as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow with Prof. Karthish Manthiram. His graduate thesis work focused broadly on exploring electrification and decarbonization routes for industrial chemical processes, with a focus on the development of electrochemical routes for ambient-condition nitrogen cycle reactions. In general, his research combined fundamental thermodynamics, kinetic analysis techniques, computational chemistry, and materials synthesis to explore sustainable electrochemical systems. Zachary then worked as a Resnick Sustainability Postdoctoral Scholar with Prof. Harry Atwater at Caltech, where his research focused on electrochemical carbon capture from seawater and photocatalytic nitrogen reduction. He joined the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as an Assistant Professor in the Applied Physics area in January, 2024.
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