Ahmadi Honored with Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Assistant Professor Mahshid Ahmadi has been selected for recognition as a Sloan Research Fellow for her revolutionary work in chemistry. She is the fifth faculty member from UT to be so honored. The awards are given by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which receives more than a thousand nominations every year for 118 fellowships.
Ahmadi, who works in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering in UT’s Tickle College of Engineering, is an expert in dealing with a type of materials known as perovskites that are grown from chemical solutions.
The goal of her research is to harness the power of automated synthesis and high-throughput characterization to accelerate discovery of new compositions and design of materials for solar cells and other electronic applications.
Read more at UT News.