Giapis Group at Caltech

The Giapis Research Group
California Institute of Technology

Principal Investigator

Konstantinos Giapis

Diploma in Chemical Engineering, National Technical University Athens, 1984
Ph.D in Chemical Engineering, Univeristy of Minnesota, 1989
Camille and Henry Dreyfus New Faculty Award, 1993
NSF Career Award, 1996
Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, 1997

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Research Associates

Norbert Radacsi

M.Sc. in Physics, University of Debrecen, 2006
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, 2012

Fabrication of nanostructured fuel cell electrodes; Needleless electrospinning

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Postdoctoral Scholars

Yunxi Yao

B.S. in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, 2002
Ph.D in Physical Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2008

Ion-Surface Interaction; Plasma Chemistry; Surface Chemistry and Catalysis; Nanotechnology; Operando Spectroscopy

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Graduate Students

Ben Kanevsky

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2014

Properties of materials in confined geometries; Experimental study of transport behavior and liquid-solid phase transitions within nanometer size cavities; Fuel cell and desalination membranes

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Undergraduate Students

Miguel Gonzalez

Increasing the mechanical stability of nanostructured fuel cell electrodes

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Alison Lui

Atomic layer desalination using porous graphene

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Devi Ganapathi

Exploring new catalysts for oxygen reduction in solid acid fuel cell electrodes

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