Bio: Shaama Sharada is the Chester Dolley Early Career Chair and Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Chemistry at USC Viterbi School of Engineering. She earned her undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also served as a software developer for Q-Chem, a quantum chemistry package. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University prior to joining USC in Fall 2017.

Her research focuses on developing catalysts and photocatalysts to meet energy-efficiency and sustainability goals. Her group utilizes quantum chemistry to find active, selective, and stable catalytic materials for efficient valorization of CH bonds and green conversion of anthropogenic carbon dioxide. Shaama is also keen on making quantum chemical predictions more reliable. She is developing algorithms inspired by signal processing to make otherwise prohibitive but accurate kinetics theories more tractable for routine studies.

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