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Hossein Yadegari, PhD

 

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

University of Toronto

h.yadegari[at]utoronto.ca

 

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I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto (UofT). My research at UofT is involved with electrocatalysis and carbon dioxide conversion to fuels. Before joining UofT, I spent a year in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London as a Research Associate, working on developing operando spectroscopic techniques to study the chemical degradation mechanisms in Li-ion batteries. I also conducted a postdoctoral appointment at Western University (London, Canada), where I developed in-situ Raman imaging technique to study the reaction mechanisms at electrode/electrolyte interfaces in alkali metal-air batteries.

I completed my PhD in materials engineering focused on designing and fabricating three-dimensional nanostructured air electrodes for application in alkali metal-air batteries. I combined electrochemical measurements with a variety of spectroscopic techniques to reveal the electro/chemical reaction mechanisms in alkali metal-air cells.

 

 

Research Interests

 

·       Designing nanostructured electrode materials for energy storage and conversion systems

·       Electro/chemistry of inorganic nanomaterials for energy applications

·       Electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide and synthetic fuels

·       Electrocatalysis for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER)

·       Application of analytical spectroscopic techniques in mechanism studies

·       Synchrotron-based hard and soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy

·       Li and Na-air batteries, Li and Na-ion batteries, supercapacitors

·       Solid-state chemistry, surface and interface science 

 

 

Awards and Honors

2020 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual European Fellowship (MSCA-IF-2019), Imperial College London (London, UK)

2019 - Mitacs Accelerate internship, University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)

2016 - Canadian Light Source Graduate Student and Post-Doctoral Travel Support, University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)

2013-2016 - Western University graduate fellowship, University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)

2007-2012 - Iran National Science Foundation (INSF) awards, K. N. Toosi University of Technology (Tehran, Iran)

 

 

Qualifications

2016 - Ph.D. in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)

2012 - M.Sc./Ph.D. in Analytical Electrochemistry, K. N. Toosi University of Technology (Tehran, Iran)

2007 - B.Sc. in Chemistry, Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran)

 

 

Research Experience

University of Toronto (Toronto, Canada)                                                                                   Jan 2020 – Present

Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Imperial College London (London, UK)                                                                                      Feb 2019 – Dec 2019

Research Associate

 

University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)                                                                   Sep 2016 – Feb 2019

Postdoctoral Research Associate

 

University of Western Ontario (London, Canada)                                                                   Jan 2013 – Sep 2016

Research/Teaching Assistant

 

 

 

 

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