The philosophy of our research approach is summarized by James Clerk Maxwell^1.:

" I have no reason to believe that the human intellect is able to weave a system of physics out of its own resources without experimental labour."

"...The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world."

Maxwell frequently employed combinations of experimental and theoretical approaches to solving problems, and clearly understood the need for multiscale modeling of real systems.

Our research group utilizes electrochemistry to address energy and environmental problems.  We have projects in electrocatalyst design for fuel cells, water electrolysis and CO₂ capture. We use fundamental and applied experimental methods as well as computational methods to understand electrocatalyst reactivity and how it relates to the structure and composition of the electrocatalyst.

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