Graduate Student Dooshaye Moonshiram has received the H.Y. Fan Award for best accomplishment in experimental biophysics and the Lijuan Wang Memorial Award for women in physics. Her PhD research thesis is focused in the biophysics area on the spectroscopic characterization of water oxidation catalysts for artificial photosynthesis. The extended impact of her PhD project is to understand the electronic, energetic and geometric requirements of the water oxidation reaction for the design of new economical and efficient catalysts.

Her co-advisor is Professor Vladimir Shalaev.