Thomas Hamann
Tom Hamann, assistant professor of chemistry, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. The two-year fellowships are awarded yearly by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to 118 early-career scientists in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.
His research interests in inorganic materials and electrochemistry of energy conversion and storage revolve around the theme of developing and characterizing nano-structured materials, coupled with detailed investigations of interfacial electron-transfer processes for solar energy conversion applications.
Hamann joined the MSU faculty in 2008 and is also the recipient of a 2011 US Department of Energy Early Career Research Award.
Hamann is also investigating controlling material composition and architecture at the nanometer length scale, understanding the surface/interface properties and tuning heterogeneous electron-transfer reaction kinetics to allow for rapid advances of the capture, conversion and storage of solar energy.
Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition to scientists, often in their first appointments to university faculties, who were endeavoring to set up laboratories and establish their independent research projects with little or no outside support. Selection procedures for the Sloan Research Fellowships are designed to identify those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contributions to new knowledge.
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