Education:
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan
MS in Mechanical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
MASc in Materials Science & Engineering
University of Toronto
HBSc in Physics
University of Toronto
Awards:
- NSERC Alexander Graham Bell CGS-D3
- 2023 North American Catalysis Society Kokes Travel Award
- 2022 North American Catalysis Society Kokes Travel Award
Publications:
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“A Multiobjective Closed-loop Approach Towards Autonomous Discovery of Electrocatalysts for Nitrogen Reduction”, L. Kavalsky, V.I. Hegde, B. Meredig, and V. Viswanathan, Digital Discovery 3, 999 (2024). [DOI]“By how much can closed loop frameworks accelerate computational materials discovery?”, L. Kavalsky*, V.I. Hegde*, E. Muckley, M.S. Johnson, B. Meredig, and V. Viswanathan, Digital Discovery 2, 1112 (2023). [DOI]“Reversible alkaline hydrogen evolution and oxidation reactions using Ni–Mo catalysts supported on carbon”, R.B. Patil, M. Kaur, S.D. House, L. Kavalsky, K. Hu, S. Zhong, D. Krishnamurthy, and V. Viswanathan, J. Yang, Y. Yan, J. Lattimer, J.R. McKone, Energy Advances 2, 1500 (2023). [DOI]“AutoMat: Automated materials discovery for electrochemical systems”, E. Annevelink, R.C. Kurchin, E. Muckley, L. Kavalsky, V.I. Hegde, V. Sulzer, S. Zhu, J. Pu, D. Farina, M.S. Johnson, D. Gandhi, A. Dave, H. Lin, A. Edelman, B. Ramsundar, J. Saal, C. Rackauckas, V. Shah, B. Meredig, and V. Viswanathan, MRS Bulletin 47, 1036 (2022). [DOI]“Robust Analysis of 4e? vs 6e? Reduction of Nitrogen on Metal Surfaces and Single-Atom Alloys”, L.M. Tsiverioti, L. Kavalsky, and V. Viswanathan, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 126, 12994 (2022). [DOI]“Robust Active Site Design of Single-Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis”, L. Kavalsky and V. Viswanathan, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 124, 23164 (2020). [DOI]“Dramatic improvement in the performance of graphene as Li/Na battery anodes with suitable electrolytic solvents”, S. Mukherjee, L. Kavalsky, K. Chattopadhyay, CV Singh, Carbon 161, 570 (2020). [DOI]“Compression induced resistance of singlet oxygen dissociation on phosphorene”, L. Kavalsky, S. Mukherjee, CV Singh, Physical Review Materials 4, 021001 (2020). [DOI]“Phosphorene as a Catalyst for Highly Efficient Nonaqueous Li–Air Batteries”, L. Kavalsky, S. Mukherjee, CV Singh, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 11, 499 (2018). [DOI]“Adsorption and diffusion of lithium polysulfides over blue phosphorene for Li–S batteries”, S. Mukherjee, L. Kavalsky, K. Chattopadhyay, CV Singh, Nanoscale 10, 21335 (2018). [DOI]“Ultrahigh storage and fast diffusion of Na and K in blue phosphorene anodes”, S. Mukherjee*, L. Kavalsky*, CV Singh, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 10, 8630 (2018). [DOI]