Rachita Rana

Assistant Professor

Contact

Rachita.Rana@lsu.edu
(225) 578-6720
Dr. Rachita Rana CV
Office: 3315Q Patrick F. Taylor Hall, Louisiana State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 

Education

Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2025) 
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of California, Davis (2023) 
M.S., Chemical Engineering, ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Saskatchewan (2017)
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Banasthali ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, India (2013)

Rachita Rana

 

Research Interests 

  • Sustainable energy solutions
  • Operando spectroscopy (experimental and computational)
  • Catalyst design
  • High-throughput screening
  • Electrocatalysis

Research Projects

  • Epoxidation
  • CO2 conversion
  • Hydrogen technologies
  • Advanced method development in spectroscopic analyses
  • Electrocatalytic mechanistic studies

Awards & Honors

  • AIChE WIC Travel Award, 2024

  • NACS Travel Award for ICC Lyon, 2024

  • MIT Rising Star (MIT ChemE), 2023

  • Best Poster at SUNCAT Summer Institute, 2023

  • Kokes Award (NACS), 2023

  • Graduate Student Association Travel Award, 2023

    (¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of California Davis)

  • Chemical Engineering Graduate Scholarship, 2016

    (¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Saskatchewan)

Reviewer

  • American Chemical Society journals (ACS Catalysis, JACS and Langmuir)

  • Elsevier (Journal of Catalysis)

  • Royal Society of Chemistry Journals, and Nature (communications and catalysis).

  • Reviewed abstracts for conferences – AIChE, ACS, ICC and NAM