Principal Investigator

Prof. Abinaya Sampath got her B.Tech (Hons.) in Chemical Engineering at IIT Madras in 2016. She obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2022. During her doctoral studies, she worked on using surface science studies in ultra-high vacuum and in situ Raman spectroscopy to understand selective bond activation over heterogeneous catalysts. Abinaya Sampath was a recipient of the Samuel W. Parr fellowship at UIUC. Abinaya Sampath joined IIT Gandhinagar as an Assistant Professor in 2022, soon after her Ph.D., and is working on using in situ and operando techniques to study the oxidation of bio-derived molecules.