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Alexander Urban

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemical Engineering

Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center

Data Science Institute

About Alex

Alex is an assistant professor in the department of chemical engineering at Columbia University. He is a computational materials chemist and is interested in materials for clean-energy applications, particularly in materials for batteries and fuel cells. Alex is a core member of the Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center and an affiliated member of the Columbia Data Science Institute.

Interests

  • Energy Storage and Conversion
  • Batteries and Fuel Cells
  • Electronic Structure of Materials
  • Materials Genomics
  • Machine Learning

Experience

  • Assistant Professor (since 2019)

    Columbia University, USA

  • Independent Research Fellow (2018)

    University of St Andrews, UK

  • Postdoc in Materials Science and Engineering (2015-2017)

    University of California, Berkeley, USA

  • Postdoc in Materials Science and Engineering (2012-2015)

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

  • PhD in Chemistry (2012)

    University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

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