Megha Anand

About

I have an educational background in various disciplines of chemistry from the India's most renowned undergraduate institute (IIT Bombay); theoretical chemistry graduate training under Prof. Henry F. Schaefer III (from the Center of Computational and Quantum Chemistry at University of Georgia Athens, GA USA), and the post-doctoral training of modelling surface reactions under Prof. Jens K. Nørskov (Stanford University and Technical University of Denmark).

I specialize in modelling homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis reactions with emphasis on active surface, reaction mechanisms, role of solvents and additives, reaction trends, etc. My current projects involve materials discovery for electrocatalytic fuel cell and nitrogen oxidation reactions, and method development for molecular/surface reactions using density functional theory and data intensive machine learning methods.

Employment

• Danmarks Tekniske Universitet Postdoctoral Associate
  2018 - Present
• Stanford University Postdoctoral Associate
  2017 - 2018

Education

• University of Georgia PhD
  2012 - 2016
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Five year Integrated Master's in Chemistry
  2007 - 2012

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (15)

• Opportunities and Challenges in Electrolytic Propylene Epoxidation
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2022 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00257
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• New challenges in oxygen reduction catalysis: a consortium retrospective to inform future research
  Energy & Environmental Science 2022 DOI: 10.1039/D2EE01333A
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• Analysis of the limitations in the oxygen reduction activity of transition metal oxide surfaces
  Nature Catalysis 2021 DOI: 10.1038/s41929-021-00618-w
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• Electrochemical oxidation of molecular nitrogen to nitric acid – towards a molecular level understanding of the challenges
  Chemical Science 2021 DOI: 10.1039/D1SC00752A
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• Scaling Relationships and Volcano Plots in Homogeneous Catalysis
  The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2020 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01991
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• Scaling Relations in Homogeneous Catalysis: Analyzing the Buchwald–Hartwig Amination Reaction
  ACS Catalysis 2020 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.9b04323
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• Is silver a mere terminal oxidant in palladium catalyzed C–H bond activation reactions?
  Chemical Science 2020 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc04540f
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• Exploring the Effect of Gold Support on the Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity of Metal Porphycenes
  ChemCatChem 2018 DOI: 10.1002/cctc.201801408
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• Palladium–Silver Cooperativity in an Aryl Amination Reaction through C–H Functionalization
  ACS Catalysis 2016 DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.5b02639
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• Hydrogen bond-aromaticity cooperativity in self-assembling 4-pyridone chains
  Journal of Computational Chemistry 2016 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.23976
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