Dr. Basant A. Ali

Basant graduated with an honors degree from the Chemistry Department at Alexandria University, where she also pursued her master’s degree with a focus on computational chemistry. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in nanotechnology from the American University in Cairo under the supervision of Prof. Nageh Allam, specializing in the design of energy materials using both experimental and computational approaches.

To further advance her research, Basant joined the Musgrave Group at the University of Colorado Boulder as a postdoctoral associate. In addition to her work on the design of energy storage materials, she expanded her research into optoelectronic materials, specifically metal halide perovskites. Her work in this area focuses on tuning the exciton fine structure by manipulating Rashba–Dresselhaus spin splitting, with implications for quantum and photonic applications.

Education

B.Sc. Chemistry, Alexandria University. 2012
M.Sc. Inorganic Chemistry, Alexandria University. 2016
Ph.D. Applied Science (Nanotechnology), The American University in Cairo. 2021

Awards

Mohammed Bin Abdulkarim A. Allehedan Fellowship, PhD fellowship.
First Place, Three Minutes Ph.D. Thesis Competition, AUC, Egypt, 2019.

Research Interests

Computational Design of Materials for Energy Applications: Discovery and design of materials for energy storage and conversion technologies, including supercapacitors, next-generation batteries, and solar cells.

Materials for Optoelectronic and Quantum Applications: Advance the computational design and fundamental understanding of materials with unique optoelectronic and quantum properties, targeting applications in next-generation photonic and quantum technologies, such as single photon sources and molecular qubits.

Open to new opportunities that advance the discovery and design of innovative materials to create a better and more resilient world.

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