Communication Fellow
6th year graduate student, Roman Lab
Kaylee is a fourth-year PhD student studying nanoscale confinement in 2D layered materials as applied to electrochemistry, in addition to developing novel core-shell catalysts for direct methanol fuel cells. She obtained her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University in May 2017, where her research was in organic chemistry, working on the development of photoresists that degrade completely to gaseous materials. She then performed research at the Technical University of Denmark in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark as part of a Fulbright grant from Fall of 2017 to the Summer of 2018. There her thesis focused on the deactivation of the industrial catalyst used for methanol to formaldehyde oxidation through experimental and mathematical modeling. After completing the Fulbright grant, she moved to Boston to pursue graduate studies at MIT. In her spare time, Kaylee is an active student advocate, and enjoys lifting weights, blues dancing, and hiking. She also has a pet bird named Zuri.