I joined the Organic Electronics group of Dr. Denis Andrienko at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) as a postdoctoral fellow in autumn 2023 to study acceptor materials for organic solar cells.
I obtained my PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology – Lausanne (EPF/ETH Lausanne, Switzerland) in 2023, working on the data-driven design of materials for organic electronics applications in the group of Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf. I employed database curation, machine learning, and multiple computational techniques to discover and establish design rules for compounds with unique excited state characteristics, in particular for solar energy and light-emitting diode applications.
I received my MSc at Université Laval (Québec, Canada) as a Schmeelk Canada fellow in 2018, and a BSc from the same institution in 2016 as an inaugural Schulich Leader scholar. There, I worked under the supervision of Profs. Mario Leclerc (polymer chemistry) and Paul Johnson (computational chemistry) on the synthesis of conjugated polymers via C-H bond activation. In 2016-2017, I was awarded a foreign study fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to conduct research for half a year in the group of Alán Aspuru-Guzik at Harvard University (USA).
In addition, I have studied at the Université de Strasbourg (France) and have taught music and science at Gandhi Ashram School in rural northern India.