Dr. Maryam Abdinejad started as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Energy Conversion and Storage at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) 1 February 2025. She earned her PhD in Molecular Science and Organic Chemistry with a focus on renewable energy applications and holds two MSc degrees—one from the UK and the other from Canada—in Pharmaceutical Science, Molecular Science & Renewable Energy, with a particular emphasis on dye-sensitized solar cells. Following her doctoral studies at the University of Toronto, she pursued postdoctoral research at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, where she spent two years working on CO2 electroreduction and conversion. She then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States as an Associate Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemical Engineering, contributing to pioneering research on direct CO2 capture technologies for an additional two years. Her cross-disciplinary, collaborative approach integrates fundamental catalytic processes with scalable industrial applications to advance the global transition to sustainable energy solutions.
At DTU Energy, in the Section for Electrochemical Materials, she leads innovative sustainability research, focusing on the integrated direct capture of CO2 from the air and its conversion into high-value materials via electrochemical and photochemical processes powered by renewable energy. Furthermore, her research is at the forefront of bridging the gap between artificial intelligence (AI) and CO2 capture, leveraging advanced machine learning techniques to optimize capture processes, enhance conversion efficiencies, and unlock novel pathways for carbon utilization.
