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Freelance Research Scientist & Chemist | Expert in Electrochemistry and Battery Research

Profile Summary

Physical chemist focused on the development and characterization of nanocarbon-based materials and exploration of their interfacial electrochemistry for electrochemical energy applications. Experienced in wet-chemistry synthesis and a variety of electrochemical (CV, potentiostatic and galvanostatic techniques, EIS), spectroscopic (XPS, XAS, Raman), and modeling (DFT and MATLAB) techniques. Excellent technical writer and communicator with 8+ publications. Experienced with grant proposal writing - authored eight successfully funded grant proposals exceeding $1 million. Educational training as physical chemist at University of Illinois Chicago (PhD) and University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (BS).

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Catalysis
• ☆ Materials Science & Engineering
• ☆ Physical Chemistry
• ☆ Electrochemistry
• ☆ Carbon Materials
• ☆ Computational Chemistry
• ☆ Physical Organic Chemistry

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting

Writing Technical Writing

Research Fact Checking, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Work Experience

Visiting Graduate Researcher

Argonne National Laboratory

July 2019 - May 2024

Graduate Research Assistant/PhD Candidate

University of Illinois Chicago

May 2020 - March 2024

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois Chicago

August 2018 - May 2020

Analytical Chemistry Intern

Ecolab

January 2018 - June 2018

Global Trade Compliance Contractor

Ecolab

August 2016 - June 2018

Education

PhD (Chemistry)

University of Illinois Chicago

August 2018 - March 2024

BSc Chemistry

University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse - United States

September 2011 - December 2015

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

PREPRINT

Erik Askins, Pouyan Navabi, Khagesh Kumar, Sarah Jasmin Finkelmeyer, Martin Presselt, Jordi Cabana, Ksenija Glusac (2024). Interfacial Electrochemistry of Catalyst-Coordinated Graphene Nanoribbons .

Erik Askins, Marija Zoric, Rachid Amine, Khalil Amine, Ksenija Glusac(2022). Li-O2 Battery Discharge Redox Mediation by Triarylmethyl Cations . American Chemical Society ({ACS})

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Sarah Jasmin Finkelmeyer, Erik J. Askins, Jonas Eichhorn, Soumik Ghosh, Carmen Siegmund, Eric Täuscher, Andrea Dellith, Maximilian L. Hupfer, Jan Dellith, Uwe Ritter, et al. (2023). Tailoring the Weight of Surface and Intralayer Edge States to Control LUMO Energies . Advanced Materials.

Erik J. Askins, Marija R. Zoric, Matthew Li, Rachid Amine, Khalil Amine, Larry A. Curtiss, Ksenija D. Glusac (2023). Triarylmethyl cation redox mediators enhance Li–O2 battery discharge capacities . Nature Chemistry.

Erik J. Askins, Marija R. Zoric, Matthew Li, Zhengtang Luo, Khalil Amine, Ksenija D. Glusac (2021). Toward a mechanistic understanding of electrocatalytic nanocarbon . Nature Communications.

Varun Singh, Nikita Gupta, George N. Hargenrader, Erik J. Askins, Andrew J. S. Valentine, Gaurav Kumar, Michael W. Mara, Neeraj Agarwal, Xiaosong Li, Lin X. Chen, et al.(2020). Photophysics of graphene quantum dot assemblies with axially coordinated cobaloxime catalysts . The Journal of Chemical Physics. 153. (12). p. 124903. {AIP} Publishing