Steven Anthony Chavez

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING

Email: stchavez@ucla.edu

Websites

Chavez, S.*; Werghi, B*.; Chen, R; Lall, S; Sanroman Gutierrez, K. M.; Cargnello, M.; “Studying, promoting,
exploiting and predicting catalyst dynamics: a new frontier in heterogeneous catalysis”, J. Phys. Chem. C,

2023, 127, 2127-2146.
Linic, S.; Chavez, S.; Elias, R.; “Flow and extraction of energy and charge carriers in hybrid plasmonic
nanostructures” Nature Materials, 2021, 1-9.
Chavez, S.; Rao, V. G.; Linic, S.; “Unearthing the factors governing site specific rates of electronic
excitations in multicomponent plasmonic systems and catalysts” Faraday Dis., 2019, 214, 441-453.
Aslam, U.; Rao, V.G.; Chavez, S.; Linic, S.; “Catalytic conversion of solar to chemical energy on plasmonic
metal nanostructures” Nature Catalysis, 2018, 1, 656-665.
Chavez, S.; Aslam, U.; Linic, S.; “Design principles for directing energy and energetic charge flow in
multicomponent plasmonic nanostructures” ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 3, 1590-1596.
Aslam, U.; Chavez, S.; Linic, S.; “Controlling energy flow in multimetallic nanostructures for plasmonic
catalysis” Nature Nanotechnology, 2017, 12, 1000.

2023 Stanford University Postdoctoral JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion) Champion Award
2023 Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences
2022 Janice Lumpkin Award – American Institute of Chemical Engineers
2022 Invited speaker, Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar Series – University of Washington
2020 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship – UM Rackham Graduate School
2019 Richard J. Kokes Award – North American Catalysis Society
2015 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship – National Science Foundation
2015 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship – Ford Foundation
2015 Rackham Merit Fellowship – Rackham Graduate School
2015 UC Berkeley’s Most Outstanding Student Leader Award – Berkeley LEAD Center