Group Leader, Catalysis Research Center, Technical University of Munich
heterogeneous catalysis
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x-ray absorption spectroscopy
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kinetic and mechanistic studies
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photochemistry
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electrochemistry
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data science
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theoretical calculations
I obtained my B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India in 2011 and my Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota, USA in 2016 under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Aditya Bhan. My PhD thesis was on “A Mechanistic Understanding of Light Olefins Selectivity in Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Conversion on MFI”. In 2017, I joined the research group of Prof. Johannes A. Lercher at the Technical University of Munich to focus on X-ray absorption spectrosocpy and density functional theory calculations. Since 2021, I am a Group Leader at the Chair II of Technical Chemistry headed by Prof. Lercher at TU Munich and lead projects involving X-ray absorption spectroscopy, sulfur chemistry, electro- and photochemistry, and polymer upcycling using ionic liquids.
I am interested in combining kinetic and mechanistic studies with operando spectroscopy and theoretical calculations to gain fundamental insights into industrially relevant heterogeneous catalytic systems.
recent publications
Structure-Activity Relationships in Ni- Carboxylate-Type Metal-Organic Frameworks’ Metamorphosis for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Xiaoxin Ma, Daniel J. Zheng, Shujin Hou, Soumya Mukherjee, Rachit Khare, Guanhui Gao, Qing Ai, Batyr Garlyyev, Weijin Li, Max Koch, János Mink, Yang Shao-Horn, Julien Warnan, Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka and Roland A. Fischer
ACS Catalysis2023, 0 , 7587-7596
Low-temperature upcycling of polyolefins into liquid alkanes via tandem cracking-alkylation
Wei Zhang, Sungmin Kim, Lennart Wahl, Rachit Khare, Lillian Hale, Jianzhi Hu, Donald M. Camaioni, Oliver Y. Gutiérrez, Yue Liu and Johannes A. Lercher
Science2023, 379 (6634), 807
Promotion of adsorptive and catalytic properties of zeolitic Brønsted acid sites by proximal extra-framework Si(OH)x groups
Zhenyu Zhou, Jing Zhang, Soumya Mukherjee, Shujin Hou, Rachit Khare, Markus Döblinger, Ondřej Tomanec, Michal Otyepka, Max Koch, Pan Gao, Liujiang Zhou, Weijin Li and Roland A. Fischer
Chemical Engineering Journal2022, 449 , 137888
Highly active and selective sites for propane dehydrogenation in zeolite Ga-BEA
Lingli Ni, Rachit Khare, Ricardo Bermejo-Deval, Ruixue Zhao, Lei Tao, Yue Liu and Johannes A. Lercher
Journal of the American Chemical Society2022, 144 (27), 12347