Nima Soltani
Department of Chemistry
I am a physical chemist with over a decade of experience in computational and spectroscopic studies of materials. My doctoral work at Rice University integrated molecular-dynamics simulations with experimental spectroscopy to investigate carbon-nanotube functionalization, advancing knowledge of guanine functionalization of single walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) chemistry and introducing a new structure-resolved metric for monitoring SWCNT defect density. Alongside first-author publications in The Journal of Physical Chemistry . Scientifically, I am captivated by light matter interaction, machine-learning-guided molecular simulation, and defect engineering in low-dimensional materials; outside the lab, I unwind by caring for my two dogs, and exploring Texan campgrounds.