Ideating at Interfaces: Enhancing Performance and Longevity of Sustainable Energy Systems

Dr. Sami Khan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Sustainable Energy Engineering at Simon Fraser University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2020. At SFU, Dr. Khan leads the Engineered Interfaces for Sustainable Energy (EISEn) group, which aims to improve the performance and longevity of sustainable energy systems by fundamentally understanding and tuning electro-chemo-physical interactions at interfaces, with a particular focus on enhancing CO2 capture and conversion processes. He has raised over $1.1M Canadian dollars in research funding. He previously worked in the rare-earth mining industry in Canada and was a Science and Technology Advisor to the Chief Scientist of Natural Resources Canada. He is the recipient of many awards, including the Action Canada Fellowship from the Government of Canada (2021) and the Marcel Pourbaix Award for Best Poster in Corrosion Science (received at the NACE International CORROSION conference in 2019).