Kunal Lodaya
Office: CHB 212
Email: klodaya@uw.edu
Education
- 2026 Ph.D., Chemistry, MIT
- 2020 B.S., Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill
Awards & Honors
- 2026 Washington Research Foundation (WRF) Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2021-2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP)
- 2025 Department of Chemistry Research Excellence Award (MIT)
- 2024 Department of Chemistry Mentorship Spotlight Award (MIT)
- 2021 Department of Chemistry Award for Outstanding Teaching (MIT)
- 2016-2020 Morehead-Cain Scholar (UNC)
- 2019 Phi Beta Kappa (UNC)
- 2018 James H. Maguire Memorial Award (UNC)
- 2018 Jackson Family Scholar (UNC)
- 2017 Americorps Teaching Fellow
Publications
2025
Harraz, D. M.*; Lodaya, K. M.*; Tang, B. Y.; Surendranath, Y. "Homogeneous-heterogeneous bifunctionality in Pd-catalyzed vinyl acetate synthesis." Science, 2025, 388388, 6742. (view)
2024
Lodaya, K. M.*; Tang, B. Y.*; Bisbey, R. P.; Weng, S.; Westendorff, K. S.; Toh, W.L.; Ryu, J.; Surendranath, Y. "An electrochemical approach for designing thermochemical bimetallic nitrate hydrogenation catalysts." Nature Catalysis, 2024, 7, 262-272. (view)
2023
Tang, B.Y.; Bisbey, R.P.; Lodaya, K.M.; Toh, W.L.; Surendranath, Y. "Reaction environment impacts charge transfer but not chemical reaction steps in hydrogen evolution catalysis". Nature Catalysis, 2023, 6, 339-350. (view)
Lodaya, K. M.; Ricke, N.D.; Chen, K.; Van Voorhis, T. "Machine learning identification of active sites in graphite-conjugated catalysts". Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2023, 127, 5, 2303-2313. (view)
2020
Lee, K. J.; Gruninger, C. T.; Lodaya, K. M.; Qadeer, S.; Griffith, B. E.; Dempsey, J. L. "Analysis of multi-electron, multi-step homogeneous catalysis by rotating disc electrode voltammetry: theory, application, and obstacles." Analyst, 2020 4, 1258-1278.(view),
Lee, K. J.*; Lodaya, K. M.*; Gruninger, C. T.; Rountree, E. S.; Dempsey, J. L. "Redox mediators accelerate electrochemically-driven solubility cycling of molecular transition metal complexes". Chemical Science, 2020, 11, 9836-9851. (view),