MANJEET CHHETRI

short description about me:

Innovative electrochemical engineer with cumulative 6 years of post-PhD experience in research related to CO2 removal (electrolyzers, reactive carbon capture), HT-PEM fuel cells and Electrochemical Hydrogen-CO2 separations technologies (from exhausts of power plants). In the past 2 years I have submitted 3 patent applications and have gained deep experience in fuel cell testing, diagnosis of electrochemical device, degradation and AST protocols developments. I am a cross-functional collaborator with background in chemistry, fundamental and applied electrochemistry and materials science. I have actively participated in peer-review process of high impact journals (more than 40 scientific articles) to judge the scientific merits of research findings and its high-level impact to the renewable energy field. I am passionate about converting research studies into tangible real-world changes specially in the carbon emissions sectors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Postdoctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Lab-Clemson University, USA 2020-Present: (1) Demonstrated more than 1000 hours stability for electrochemical Hydrogen Pump (EHP) device at a current density more than 3A/cm2, which improved the performance of existing state-of-art EHP devices by more than 300% and is now under the discussion for industrial scale adoption using ion-pair membrane technology useful for HT-PEMFC. (2) Developed hypothesis driven catalyst design strategy with platinum group metals for the efficient hydrogenation of CO2 in flow cells that enabled hydrocarbon production while preventing hydrogen evolution reaction and resulted in Nature Communications publications in 2023. (3) Co-wrote major research grant proposals to DOE, LDRD, ARPA-e, NASA-EPSCoR few of which have resulted in funded research works. Demonstrated collaborative skills with multi department researchers. (4) Currently developing high temperature CO2 reduction testing protocols for all solid-state CO2 electrolyzers to tackle the stability issue related to AEM based CO2 electrolyzers.

DST (India) -Overseas Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA 2019-2020: Was awarded prestigious Department of Science and Technology (DST), India postdoctoral fellowship (one of the only 3 recipients in India in 2019) based on proposed research work on charge transfer across bipolar membranes for potential use in electrochemical devices (research work published in Journal of Physical Chemistry (2021).

Future Research Talent Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra, AUS 2019: Developed strategies for electrochemical synthesis of metal oxyhalides for device applications.