Reza Nazemi

Dr. Reza Nazemi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Colorado State University. His cross-disciplinary research addresses renewable energy utilization, storage, and transport, with focus areas including electrocatalysis, plasmonics, and nanomaterials for sustainable energy and environmental applications.

Dr. Nazemi's work develops innovative solutions for electrification and decarbonization across transportation, chemical, and wastewater treatment industries. His research group explores hybrid plasmonic nanostructures for solar-chemical energy conversion, electrochemical processes for resource recovery, and sustainable synthesis of energy carriers like ammonia.

He has received prestigious awards including the ECS Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship and ACS Physical Chemistry Division Young Investigator Award. Prior to CSU, he conducted postdoctoral research at Yale University and Georgia Tech, earning his PhD from Georgia Tech in 2020.

Awards

• 2022 ECS Colin Garfield Fink Fellowship
• 2021 American Chemical Society Physical Chemistry Division Young Investigator Award
• 2018 Amazon Catalyst at ECS award
• 2020 Georgia Research Alliance Award