Arthi Gopalakrishnan
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Geoscience, Faculty of Science
Dr. Arthi Gopalakrishnan started her research career as senior research fellow at the International Advanced Research Center, Hyderabad in 2015, with a focus on photo-electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution technique. She received a PhD jointly from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad and Swinburne University of Technology, Australia in 2021, with her research centered on biomass derived carbon-based electrodes for supercapacitor applications. In 2018 and 2020, Dr. Gopalakrishnan received a research excellence award and in 2022 was the recipient of a best thesis award by the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences, India. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at IIT Hyderabad, India until March 2022, and joined the University of Calgary in October 2022 as an Eyes High postdoctoral associate, where she works with a multi-disciplinary team to convert lab proof-of concept to the pilot scale technology called PEACH (Practical Electrochemical Air Capture and Hydrogen). Her current research interest is based on ocean-based large-scale carbon-dioxide removal using an electro-geochemical approach. Dr. Gopalakrishnan has also authored 38 publications, with 24 as a first author.
This fellowship will be used to advance a large-scale CO2 removal technology, PEACH (Practical Electrochemical Air Capture with Hydrogen), in collaboration with Chemistry, Geoscience, Engineering and Law researchers at the University of Calgary. PEACH uses a unique electro-geochemical approach to generate alkalinity in natural waters and capture CO2. The Parex Innovation fellowship will accelerate the translation of the PEACH technology from the bench to pilot scale and facilitate my development as an entrepreneur and innovator in the burgeoning climate change solutions field."
Arthi Gopalakrishnan, Postdoctoral Associate