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Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, CRC, Technical University Munich, 2023-24
Visiting Scholar, CCEI, University of Delaware, 2016-17
Postdoctoral Research Associate, NSF-CBiRC, University of Virginia, 2011-2013
M. S. & Ph.D University of Virginia (UVA), 2006-2011
B. Tech. IIT Guwahati, 2006

Prof. Mohammad Ali Haider’s research interests lie in developing catalytic and electro-catalytic materials for various applications, including energy storage devices, fuel cells, biorenewable energy, climate change, and sustainability. Employing a combined experimental and theoretical approach, his group designs novel materials aided by machine learning and density functional theory (DFT) simulations. He leads the Renewable Energy and Chemicals (REC) group and a CompCatCollab network of scientists in India dedicated to computational and experimental catalysis for energy and environmental research. For his research work utilizing high-performance computing (HPC), Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel have bestowed upon him the 'Dr. A.P.J Abdul Kalam HPC Award for R&D in HPC Application'.

Prof. Haider serves as an Editorial Advisory Board member for the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. In 2023, he visited the Catalysis Research Center, Technical University Munich, as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. The Royal Society of Chemistry has recognized his research contributions on various occasions, designating him as the 'Emerging Investigator' in the Reaction Chemistry & Engineering journal, a 'Highly Cited Author' in the Green Chemistry journal, and as part of the 'Editor's Choice Collection' in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A. He was a visiting fellow at the Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation at the University of Delaware on a 'Bioenergy-Award for Cutting Edge Research' sponsored by the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum.

Prof. Haider's work in India has been recognized with prestigious awards, including the 'Amar Dye-Chem Award for Excellence in Basic Research and Development in Chemical Engineering' by the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers, the 'DAE-BRNS Young Scientist Award', the 'Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award', and the Institution of Engineers (India) 'Young Engineers Award'. At IIT Delhi, his contributions in teaching and research are noted by the 'Industry Relevant Best PhD Thesis Supervision', the 'Teaching Excellence Award', and the 'Early Career Research Award'. Moreover, he is a member of The National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) and the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS), actively engaging in delivering motivational and popular science lectures on sustainability, climate change, nanoscale catalysis, and renewable energy.

Read more about Prof. Haider's research on the Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Blog

Recent Publications

• Chen, H., Iyer, J., Liu, Y., Krebs, S., Deng, F., Jentys, A., Searles, D. J., Haider, M. A., Khare, R., and Lercher, J. A. (2024): Mechanism of Electrocatalytic H2 Evolution, Carbonyl Hydrogenation, and Carbon-Carbon Coupling on Cu, Journal of the American Chemical Society, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c01911
• Balyan, S., Ahangar, I., Ussama, M., Gupta, D., Khan, T. S., Pant, K. K., Shrivastav, G., & Haider, M. A., (2024): Rational Tailoring of Metal Precursor Interactions with the Zeolite Support in the Mo/HZSM-5 Catalyst for Methane Dehydroaromatization, Crystal Growth and Design, 24, 1529-1543.
• Iyer, J., Jalid, F., Khan, T.S. & Haider, M. A. (2022): Tracing the reactivity of single atom alloys for ethanol dehydrogenation using ab initio simulations, Reaction Chemistry and Engineering, 7, 61-75.
• Jalid, F., Khan, T. S. & Haider, M. A. (2021): CO2 reduction and ethane dehydrogenation on transition metal catalysts: Mechanistic insights, reactivity trends and rational design of bimetallic alloys. Catalysis Science and Technology, 11, 97-115
• Saxena, S., Khan, T. S., Jalid, F., Ramteke, M. & Haider, M. A. (2020): In silico high throughput screening of bimetallic and single atom alloys using machine learning and ab initio microkinetic modelling. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 8(1), 107–123.
• Anjum, U, Khan, T. S., Agarwal, M. & Haider, M. A. (2019): Identifying the origin of the limiting process in a double perovskite PrBa0.5Sr0.5Co1.5Fe0.5O5+δ thin-film electrode for solid oxide fuel cells. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 11(28), 25243–25253.
• Anjum, U, Agarwal, M., Khan, T. S., Prateek, Gupta, R. K. & Haider, M. A. (2019): Controlling surface cation segregation in a nanostructured double perovskite GdBaCo2O5+δ electrode for solid oxide fuel cells. Nanoscale, 11(44), 21404–21418.
• Jalid, F., Khan, T. S., Mir, F. Q. & Haider, M. A. (2017): Understanding trends in hydrodeoxygenation reactivity of metal and bimetallic alloy catalysts from ethanol reaction on stepped surface. Journal of Catalysis, 353, 265–273.
• Alam, M. I., Gupta, S., Bohre, A., Ahmad, E., Khan, T. S., Saha, B. & Haider, M. A. (2016): Development of 6-amyl-α-pyrone as a potential biomass-derived platform molecule. Green Chemistry, 18(24), 6431–6435.
• Ahmad, E., Alam, M. I., Pant, K. K. & Haider, M. A. (2016). Catalytic and mechanistic insights into the production of ethyl levulinate from biorenewable feedstocks. Green Chemistry, 18(18), 4804–4823.
• Chia, M., Haider, M. A., Pollock, G., Kraus, G. A., Neurock, M. & Dumesic, J. A. (2013): Mechanistic insights into ring-opening and decarboxylation of 2-pyrones in liquid water and tetrahydrofuran. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 135(15), 5699–5708.