Eric M Lopato

Eric Lopato was raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and obtained a B.S. in Chemistry from St. John's University in New York City. He started conducting inorganic chemistry research under the supervision of Professor Richard Rosso producing novel N-heterocyclic carbene ligands for ruthenium-based catalysts. During a summer at the Washington State University Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, he worked with Professor Brian Lamb on atmospheric chemical modeling involved in development of AIRPACT-5. Currently, he is a second year graduate student pursuing his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University under the advisement of Professor Stefan Bernhard. His current research focuses on mass parallelized screening of photocatalytic systems for the generation of fuels and energy storage materials from abundant materials or industrial waste products. In this work, Eric has worked in collaborations within chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and engineering, computer science, and machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University as well as with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh.