Shafigh Mehraeen
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois, Chicago
United States
Biography
Dr. Shafigh Mehraeen, is an assistant professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC). He received his B.Sc. in Structural Engineering at the University of Tehran, Iran. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2008 and 2011, respectively. After two-year postdoctoral career at the Center for Organic Electronics in Georgia Institute of Technology, he received the MIT-SUTD postdoctoral fellowship. He worked in the Chemistry Department at MIT, where he received MIT Ascher Shapiro Award for excellence in educational prowess. He joined the Chemical Engineering Faculty at UIC as an assistant professor in 2016.
Research Interest
His research has focused on developing new methods and computational models to explore dynamics of directed self-assembly of sub-10 nm particles with single particle positioning resolution, predict the role of donor-acceptor interfacial properties on charge generation and energy losses in organic photovoltaics, and unravel the impact of materials disorder on charge transport properties of organic semiconductors. Dr. Mehraeen has authored 20 peer-reviewed articles, 1 patent, 1 book, and 1 book chapter in the areas of statistical thermodynamics, self-assembly, charge transport in light-harvesting systems and solar-photochemistry.