Zek Kelly

Graduate Student, Northwestern University
Kanatzidis Group, Thermoelectrics
Phone: 847-467-6335
E-Mail: zekkelly2028@u.northwestern.edu
Office: K254

B.S., Chemistry
Colorado School of Mines
Golden CO, 2023

Profile

I graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 2023 with a B.S. in Chemistry. During my undergraduate tenure, I worked in three research groups. Initially, I worked with Dr. Carolyn Koh and Dr. Jose Delgado, investigating the conditions responsible for clathrate hydrate formation. Subsequently, I worked with Dr. James Ranville on projects involving soil analysis and plastic photodegradation. Following that, I worked with Dr. Ryan Richards on the wet-chemical synthesis of novel high-entropy metal oxides. At Northwestern, I am under the joint advisership of Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis and Prof. Vinayak Dravid, my research is on the synthesis and advanced characterization of thermoelectric materials.