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- The Kavli ENSI brings together 23 world-class scientists from a diverse set of backgrounds with a combined interest and focus on learning the fundamentals of how energy flows and can be controlled on the nanoscale, where the rules of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics teach us that entirely new ways of thinking are possible. The institute has developed rapidly to become a vibrant hub of engagement on these issues across the Berkeley campus and the Berkeley Lab.
  
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Christian Dierks

2017-2018 Graduate Student Fellow

Previous Faculty Advisor: Professor Omar Yaghi

Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute

Christian's research focused on covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for the electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide. The grand challenge in photo- and electrocatalytic carbon dioxide reduction to value-added carbon products lies in the fact that a singular catalytic system must control the interplay between efficiency, activity, and selectivity and we believe that the reticular chemistry of COFs can address it.