Sara Skrabalak received her B.A. in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002. She then attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joining Professor Ken Suslick's laboratory. She received her Ph.D. in chemistry, with an emphasis on materials, from UIUC in the fall of 2006 and was the recipient of the T. S. Piper Thesis Research Award for her dissertation entitled: Porous Materials Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis. She then did postdoctoral work at the University of Washington-Seattle beginning in 2007 with Professors Younan Xia and Xingde Li. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University Bloomington.

Her research group is developing new synthetic methods to shape- and architecturally-controlled solids then studying the structure-function relationships of prepared materials as they are applied to energy applications. http://www.indiana.edu/~skrablab/

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