Pedro de Souza
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING
Websites
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
- Electrochemical modeling of interfaces
- Colloidal interactions and membrane transport
- Thermodynamics and phase behavior of polymer solutions
- Biomolecular condensate biophysics
- Bioseparations process design and modeling
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS AND BOOKS
- J. P. de Souza, H. A. Stone. Exact Analytical Solution of the Flory-Huggins Model and Extensions to Multicomponent Systems. J. Chem. Phys. 161, 044902 (2024).
- K. Pivnic, J. P. de Souza, M. Urbakh, M. Z. Bazant, A. A. Kornyshev. Orientational Ordering of Confined Polar Liquids. Nano Letters 23, 12, 5548-5554 (2023).
- J. P. de Souza, A. A. Kornyshev, M. Z. Bazant. Polar Liquids at Charged Interfaces: A Dipolar Shell Theory. J. Chem. Phys. 156, 244705 (2022).
- J. P. de Souza, Z. A. H. Goodwin, M. McEldrew, A. A. Kornyshev, M. Z. Bazant. Interfacial Layering in the Electric Double Layer of Ionic Liquids, Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 116001 (2020).
EDUCATION
- BS, Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2016
- PhD, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022
- Postdoc, Bioengineering, Princeton University, 2025
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute Innovators (ODBI2) Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2025
- National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, 2016-2021
- MIT Presidential Fellow, 2016