Rachita Rana

Rachita is a Chemical Engineering Ph.D. Candidate at University of California, Davis co-advised by Dr. Ambarish Kulkarni and Dr. Simon Bare. Her current research focuses on implementing Quantum chemistry methods to understad the nature of catalytic sites in combination with X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). Her major project involves development of the automated workflow QuantEXAFS that uses high-throughput atomistic simulations to fit XAS data. 

Rachita obtained her MS degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Saskatchewan under the supervision of Dr. Ajay K. Dalai and a Bachelors degree from India.