Rachel Thatcher

Rachel is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and works with Prof. Aleksandra Vojvodic. Her research focuses on understanding activity and stability of oxides with the goal of designing efficient, durable and manufacturable (i.e. cost efficient, raw material abundant, etc.) materials for electrocatalysis. Rachel graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.S.E in Chemical Engineering and a B.S. in Mathematics in 2020. Before beginning her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, she worked in the Chemical Engineering R&D group at Merck & Co. Inc.