The Stanford University Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) and the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChemE) invite applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the labs of Dr. Meagan Mauter and Dr. William Tarpeh. This interdisciplinary position will focus on the development of process modeling techniques for the extraction and purification of critical minerals using innovative electrified methods.
We are working closely with colleagues in Science, Engineering and Medicine to advance the use of soft electronics for wearable and implantable electronics for precision health, precision mental health and advance the understanding of neuroscience. Her group has developed foundational materials and devices that enabled a a new generation of skin-inspired soft electronics. They open up unprecedented opportunities for understanding human health and developing monitoring, diagnosis and treatment tools.
Our group is an eclectic mixture of physicists, biologists and engineers who are all passionately interested in the problem of how living cells self-assemble into structures of often dazzling complexity. Unlike human-engineered systems, for example a car or computer chip, every aspect of cell and tissue function must arise from bottom-up self-assembly. The physical mechanisms that govern this self-assembly process are largely unknown, making this one of the most interesting problems in biological research today.
The mission of the Water & Energy Efficiency for the Environment Lab (WE3Lab) is to reduce the cost and carbon intensity of water desalination and reuse. Ongoing research efforts include:
1) developing automated, precise, robust, intensified, modular, and electrified (A-PRIME) water desalination technologies to support a circular water economy;
2) optimizing the coordinated operation of decarbonized water and energy systems; and
Our interdisciplinary lab pursues research centered around advanced polymer 3D fabrication methods and their applications in human health.
Bao’s research focuses on fundamental understanding of molecular design rules for organic electronic materials. She pioneered a number of molecular design concepts for efficient charge transport in organic electronic materials. Her work has enabled flexible electronic circuits and displays. In the decade, she pioneered the field of skin-inspired organic electronic materials, which resulted in unprecedented performance or functions in wearable and implantable medical devices and energy storage applications.
The research in our laboratory is focused on understanding and controlling surface and interfacial chemistry and applying this knowledge to a range of problems in semiconductor processing, micro- and nanoelectronics, nanotechnology, and sustainable and renewable energy. Much of our research aims to develop a molecular-level understanding in these technologically important systems. Our group uses a variety of atomic and molecular spectroscopies combined with atomically-precise materials synthesis.
Heilshorn's interests include biomaterials in regenerative medicine, engineered proteins with novel assembly properties, microfluidics and photolithography of proteins, and synthesis of materials to influence stem cell differentiation. Current projects include tissue engineering for spinal cord and blood vessel regeneration, designing injectable materials for use in stem cell therapies, and the design of biomaterials for culture of patient-derived biopsies and organoids.
My research interests lie at the interface between chemistry and biology. While ongoing research in my lab focuses on multiple problems, all of these efforts are motivated by the twin goals of shining light on fundamentally new molecular mechanisms in biology and leveraging these insights to address unmet challenges in human health. Two examples of ongoing research themes in my lab are outlined below: