Kimberly See

Kimberly See is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Caltech. She was born and raised in Colorado and received her B.S. in Chemistry from the Colorado School of Mines in 2009. Kim earned her PhD in Chemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara where she worked with Profs. Ram Seshadri and Galen Stucky. Kim was then awarded the St. Elmo Brady Future Faculty Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and worked with Prof. Andrew Gewirth in the Department of Chemistry until the fall of 2017. Now, her group at Caltech studies new chemistry for next-generation energy storage with a focus on Earth abundant, inexpensive materials. She studies the electrochemistry associated with multivalent and multielectron processes in both the liquid phase and solid-state. Her work has earned the Electrochemical Society Toyota Young Investigator Award, Beckman Young Investigator Award, VW/BASF Science Award Electrochemistry, and Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. Within CSOE, Kim and her team are focused on studying the electrochemical reduction of multivalent ions to electrochemically regenerate catalysts. The See group is also working on understanding reactive electrodes operating at highly reducing potentials and preparing stable interfaces for these potentials.