
Steven Anthony Chavez
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING
Websites
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
- Solar-to-chemical energy conversion
- Nanophotonics
- Plasmonics
- Heterogeneous catalysis
- Photocatalysis
- Light-matter coupling
- Catalyst dynamics
- Operando characterization
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
- 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.
EDUCATION
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, 2024
- Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2022
- M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2017
- B.S., Chemical Engineering, UC Berkeley, 2015
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- 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