Warburton Lab

Prof. Robert Warburton

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Case Western Reserve University

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e-mail: rew134 [at] case [dot] edu

Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 2021–2022

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, Yale University, 2019–2021

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 2019

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2014

Rob is a Northeast Ohio native, and completed his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Ohio State in 2014. While at OSU, he did his undergraduate research under the supervision of Prof. Aravind Asthagiri, which sparked his interest in molecular simulation. He subsequently joined Prof. Jeff Greeley's group at Purdue for his graduate studies, where he performed collaborative research on lithium-ion batteries within the Center for Electrochemical Energy Science EFRC, and completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2019. With the support of a DOE SCGSR Award, he completed an eight-month stay in the Molecular Materials group during his Ph.D. studies (supervised by Dr. Larry Curtiss) in the Materials Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, where he modeled charge transfer reactions in lithium-air battery systems. In 2019, he joined Prof. Sharon Hammes-Schiffer's group in the Yale Department of Chemistry as a postdoctoral researcher to study electrochemical proton-coupled electron transfer, and was awarded an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2021. Rob joined the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Case Western Reserve University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2022.

Honors and Awards

ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award, 2023

CWRU UCITE Glennan Fellowship, 2023

Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemical Sciences, 2021

Distinguished Young Seminar Speaker, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Washington, 2020

Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Research (SCGSR) Award, 2017

Student & Postdoc Team Science Competition Winner at DOE EFRC-Hub-CMS PI Meeting, 2017

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program Honorable Mention, 2015

Ohio State ChBE Outstanding Undergraduate Award for Research Excellence, 2014