Isabel Albelo
Materials Science and Engineering
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Profile
I was born and raised just south of Sacramento, California. My interest in environmental stewardship was inspired by a childhood spent outdoors and I realized I could channel that passion into a career during my high school IB Chemistry class. I entered UCLA as an Environmental Engineering student, but after doing a research internship at the Northwestern University Materials Research Center, I knew that it was the field for me. Through the UCLA Materials Engineering curriculum and a subsequent internship at the MIT Materials Research Laboratory, I knew that I was not done learning about materials science and that I wanted to pursue a graduate degree that would also allow me to perform cutting-edge research. For my Ph.D. work, I will be studying the photocatalytic production of carbon-neutral solar fuels in the Solar Energy Innovation Laboratory under Dr. David Fenning. I hope to leverage my opportunity to be a SLOAN Scholar to perform work that helps to make a sustainable energy future possible.