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Alexie M. Kolpak

Rockwell International Career Development Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT

MIT

About me

Alexie M. Kolpak is the Rockwell International Career Development Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. She earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. Her research interests focus on:

  1. Understanding and predicting environment-dependent atomic and electronic structure at solid-solvent interfaces.
  2. First-principles computational design of novel catalysts for water splitting, CO2 capture and conversion, and other reactions.
  3. Investigation and design of novel multiferroic, photovoltaic, and thermoelectric materials and heterostructures..